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Smith kline just paid the largest fine in the history of the United States related to fraud and criminal acts for a drug company they paid three billion dollars for illegal marketing of Paxil Wellbutrin and Avandia Paxil and avandia both having been drugs that caused a lot of deaths due to adverse drug reactions and they paid it in cash this action constitutes the Largest Health care settlement in United States history it was in their Business Plan because those three drugs in the years involved sold twenty five billion dollars worth and the drugs are marked up in the thousands of percent psychiatric and scientific ethics were cast aside in exchange for profits no one went to jail and real people paid the price. Printing words hard on his sleeve he just adored social situations he loved to sing from a very young age and music was part of our life and part of what he he adored and what i miss most about brennan is he came in it always give me a hug. Hey dad i dont give me a hug i still think to this day hes going to watch the door we were driving not too long ago nancy myself and others like him and i look in the backseat and he was sleeping and i went to look to see of brennan was there to start a habit if he was sleeping until i saw brennan walk out of this house he was very robotic. Brennan where are you going its ok mom i just gotta go put on his winter coat brennan its hot out today its ok mom i just gotta go put on his winner halle said brennan its hot out today you wont need that its ok mom ive just got to go and i said i need you here for a minute no its ok mom ive just got to go and that our he could see to me and this was a child who was very articulate who would who is so verbose that sometimes he would just say ok enough and f. O. Ready for days prior brennan went to the Family Doctor with a chest cold and inexplicably came home with a sample pack of the antidepressant super next at the time of his disappearance he was exhibiting the classic signs of. I let him go out the door and that was the last time i said im alive and he brought his rope from the local store and drove to a Conservation Area texted us in hand im self. Before long other teens across the canadian province of ontario would dying just like brennan did for Terence Young the problem hit close to home again when friends and constituents faced the same hora he in the mccartneys had my wife call my son hard to the phone and we heard him say a few words and the bang the phone down and ran upstairs obviously quite upset and we one said what happened he said sarah curran hanged herself and we had met sarah who was eighteen years old just a few weeks before in our backpack they were part of a same social group and hopefully play guitar and sing songs and do karaoke or whatever. Because of my own research the first thing i thought about when an otherwise healthy young person dies is was a Prescription Drug involved and of course it was in fact theres no doubt my mind that paxil and withdrawing from paxil was the cause of Sarah Carlins demise her suicide of a young woman hanging herself is an extremely rare thing to happen she went home one saturday night at two oclock in the morning took off her makeup and hanged herself in her parents basement i reached out to turn to one point because i was in contact with corners off as i was starting to put pieces together it wasnt until after sarah is death. That we actually started to connect the dots were brief others we have a great connection with her and so pick up the inquest doctors would talk to us after we fought hard for an inquest because we needed to understand and after syria had died then we started doing research on the drug thats why i really found out about the drug thats the first time we realised that paxil one of the side effects was suicidal thinking is videotape of the Coroners Council saying on the very first day of the inquest we will show that paxil didnt play a part in their carlins death well the whole point of the inquest was to see whether or not and the presence played a part in serious death the courts and acknowledge that this medication can increase thoughts of suicide in particular patients but they dont think that the medication played a role in sarah carl and that the inquest the odds were stacked against the condoms the jury i think was very courageous but they were specifically instructed by the coroner that they couldnt actually find paxil as a cause the jury made twelve key recommendations these were detailed recommendations to prevent similar deaths six of them were aimed at the drug industry and of the drug company so if they didnt think that paxil caused or played a Critical Role in Sarah Carlins death they certainly wouldnt put six recommendations into the pharmaceutical industry in there are a good decision. Regenerated forty pounds of fury oh goodness yes and i was not easy to deal with my son joseph at that time was fifteen years of age extremely ill it didnt matter what it was very very violent the drop of a pin would set me off you could actually say he would be everything that a schoolyard shooting is made out of. In the years after Debbie Steffen drove the familys nine hundred ninety bronco into a raging river with her children inside the mental states of both autumn string him and her brother Joseph Steffen deteriorated whether the cause was genetics or sheer trauma they both were diagnosed with bipolar disorder just like the mom joseph in particular seemed headed for disaster he was just a sweetheart but boy when he hit puberty he he really went over and became incredibly manic and incredibly violent in his mania he was he was scary my dad was scared joseph was medicated with left him i believe he was taking seven hundred fifty milligrams of of lithium and he was up to nine hundred milligrams of let him. For a period of time to try and control it was i having huge mood swings yeah that stuff definitely started i mean ive been through a lot of pain with the death of my mother and various events that happened in my life after my mother had committed suicide. I was the most violent person that i knew and i used to wander the streets at night and id go pick fights with the local people and i had this aluminum bat that i had found and i beat it against the curb so it was just jagat and torn up and you know that was my weapon of choice and i mean im lucky i never touched anybody with that thing. My children are already saying to me come on dad you got to get them out of the house hes going to kill somebody youve got to do something dad didnt matter what we threw at this situation it wasnt going to get better and im going to lose him to a suicide or hes going to have to be institutionalized a thousand miles away or tim was also struggling desperately now married with a child she too was caught in the grip of a mothers madness at that point in my life i just felt like everything was ashes you know i just lost my mom to suicide my diagnosis had been upgraded so i now is rapid cycling bipolar one with schizophrenia tendencies which was it seemed really dark like i wasnt going to get over that and so i had actually planned to commit suicide with one child ingesting a five drug cocktail and contemplating suicide and the other engulfed by violent thoughts Tony Stephens family was under siege. So i was left in a terrible state a terrible state where i had to find an answer because you see my family was literally coming unglued before my eyes i was going to lose my family stephan resolved to find an answer and prevent any further suicides in his family. As part of the research for his book called the book of woe Gary Greenberg was imbedded with psychiatrists as they debated the new edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders the d. S. And five all along its been clear that the d. S. M. Is centrally a work of fiction its the way that psychiatrists have of saying if if there are mental disorders if they exist in nature the ways illnesses like diabetes exist then disease or what they are changing the way we understand ourselves is intimately related to the development of the diagnostic and statistical manual the d. S. M. Is often referred to as the bible of psychiatric disorders it is the quintessential diagnostic instrument over four hundred thousand Mental Health professionals in the United States use the d. S. M. And in order to get Third Party Reimbursement one has to have a d. S. M. Diagnosis so the d. S. M. Is extremely instrumental in two thousand and five two respected academics lisa kos grove of you must boston and sheldon crim ski of tufts released their investigation into conflicts of interest between d. S. M. Four Panel Members and the pharmaceutical industry i think the data really speak for themselves the strongest statistics include the Panel Members for the mood disorders and schizophrenia and psychotic disorders one hundred percent of those Panel Members and yes thats right every single panel member has financial says with a pharmaceutical industry and if you look at it in terms of the sheer amount of money the antidepressant market and the antipsychotic markets are the fourth and fifth leading therapy classes of drugs with annual sales of twenty billion and fourteen billion respectively there are one hundred seventy d. S. M. Panel members thats the total inclusive of all the working groups of those one hundred seventy Panel Members fifty six percent had. At least one financial says yes or the pharmaceutical company. The d. S. M. Decision makers actions over the last thirty years have reverberated in sad and profound ways. My dad and i have always been really close you know both my parents did everything for my brother and i was you know if theres a spot he wanted to pick up or if there is something that we wanted to do we did everything my dad built my brother halfpipe in our backyard and it was like a professionally built half pipe like this thing was phenomenal and we had kids from all over the neighborhood come there to ride it because it was huge theres nothing more accelerating the being at that high in everything that ive ever done it was magical moments our daughter jim was born in one thousand nine hundred and our son he was born in one thousand nine hundred two and both my wife and i took a nurturing approach to parenting didnt get everything they wanted but they certainly had a lot of opportunity when they were young and it was it was wonderful the car michaels perfect family began to on hinge shortly after david began taking paxil i really didnt know very much more Mental Illness until when i was forty five years older than i had my first major depression and i was treated with paxil and in fact when i look back on it now theres no question i was manic when i was on packs of the first time that was the very first time that i would even look at issues around drugs and side effects so. I noticed that there was a big difference before he started taking medication and then while he was taking the medication i remember him snapping on me about something very small and i remember him spending so much time in his office i remember him just being just being more quiet and not being himself and looking stressed out and. Just fucking different she would just just tremendous discomfort with being on that particular drug and really made me wonder you know should i be on it. Seemed wrong but ill. Just go all. In the world to get to shape out of this thing become educated and in gains from it equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. As you read the stand here from us and. Move from what i saw. A good armor on our show at the fair are rather a profit off for for america as a. Im going to let him but i dont catch him then you. Can keep an eye on what i have seen as a child with a troll fault that it. Doesnt. 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This misses a russian proposal to create a new tell us with investigating suspected chemical incidents in syria it comes after the us secretary of state play moscow was quote ultimately responsible for all Chemical Attacks in the country since twenty fifth but were not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth of the fact that the us dismissed all proposal right from the start reveals the truth that they do not need an impartial investigative mechanism while the Us Government paid chief sees this scale of destruction in the syrian city of raka is almost beyond description after americas devastating Bombing Campaign against Islamic State there. For meddling allegations top u. S. Democrats claim russian balls. So responsible for intensifying calls for the release of a potentially explosive memo on social media. Cry in the sporting world over their potential exclusion of a number of clean russian athletes from the upcoming winter again. Around the clock across the world this is our Team International from the team myself you know neil welcome to the program there has been a Fiery Exchange between russia and america at the United Nations over whos to blame for a Chemical Attacks in syria and how they should be investigated moscows sais that previous investigative mechanism was completely flawed enough there needs to be a more transparent and credible system in place but that proposal was rejected by the us russia is complicit in the assad regimes atrocities you are acting as judge and prosecutor russia is running from the facts your behavior exposes your true motives russia has the audacity to lecture the Security Council this is a long political spectacle were not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth you should at least have taken a look at the draft before rejecting it russia all on its own killed the mechanism we had specifically tasked to those responsible what do you need an investigative mechanism for before an investigation you havent cuse the Syrian Government of using chemical weapons when the emergency Security Council meeting was called after reports emerged of another chemical attack in syria on monday the us secretary of state claimed that russia was ultimately responsible for that and all other such incidents since its twenty fifteen intervention in the conflict. Whoever conducted the attack russia ultimately bears responsibility for the victims of these and countless other syrian targeted with chemical weapons since russia became involved in syria the problem is it hasnt even been confirmed that these attacks even happened let alone who is responsible and there are only two sources saying this and both are notoriously prorebel this whole blame russia game continued at the Security Council on that same mickey haley statements were more about russia than anything else she even accused russia of killing the joint investigative mechanism but at the meeting russia said that the joint investigative mechanism became a Political Tool and called for an impartial investigation into all cases of chemical weapons use in syria including the joint investigative mechanisms new reports that were not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth or that politicizes what must be an independent and impartial investigation. Of the fact that the us dismissed all proposal right from the start reveals the truth that they do not need an impartial investigative mechanism even though several other Member States supported the proposal of a new impartial investigation the us rejected it saying that its ready to bring back the old joint investigative mechanism quote but all other suggestions are unacceptable. Well a mechanism similar mentioned there was established in twenty fifteen by the un Security Council along with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons together they drew up several reports accusing the Syrian Government of carrying out Chemical Attacks it included one in one of the deadliest that was in ship could in april last year weve talked about a lot however experts did not actually visit the site before reaching their conclusions well the monday to for the joint teams investigation has now expired on moscow wants changes made and as i mentioned a new body set up one of russias demands is that site visit should be part of any future investigation so that samples can be taken directly its also underlined the importance of i witness accounts which have been heavily relied upon in the past by the un ok lets discuss this a little bit further bring Shapira Huston Ali into the program. As a political analyst and commentator good to have you back why do you think the u. S. Has dismissed russias call for a new investigation into Chemical Attacks in syria and i will put it to you given that the work clear flaws in the report on the attack in last year what would be the objection to that. I think its quite bizarre that america turns around and just objects randomly again like the the Russian Ambassador said you havent even looked at this proposal you just throwing it away. But this is actually quite revealing it reveals that americas intentions are not to get to the bottom of whats going on because it knows who was using chemical munitions previously there was evidence from people who went there on the ground that these weapons had come from turkey and from other places and they bore the whole hallmarks of. Countries in terms of where the originated from and. You know im not saying that the Syrian Government hasnt used chemical weapons i honestly dont know but its well known that the terrorists i wont call them rebels because the terrorists like the f. S. A. Like these other little factions that are all american backed or backed by american proxies such as saudi arabia and others they have been using them now america knows if you have a real a proper investigation where you send people on the ground to go away and do the Actual Research in this its surprising that they dont want this because in any crime scene you need to go there and when ever you have a crime scene the police or the investigators need to go there needs they need to have a look at whats actually happened they need to take samples and all that sort of stuff which can then be studied in the labs to understand exactly whats happened where is america i think its knows that a lot of the maybe the signatures the chemical signatures will come back to american allies. Are not highly possible yet its just all not because i just want to move on the thoughts on the suggestion that russia is complicit in a lot of these Chemical Attacks in in syria it doesnt seem reasonable to you that the u. S. Planes moscow for all Chemical Attacks in syria indirectly or otherwise since twenty fifteen and then rejects a new what would hope to be a transparent investigation that would shed light on who was actually responsible. Well exactly the doublespeak the nikki haley and other u. S. Officials have been saying proves exactly what ive said and what youve got what youve alluded to which is that they turn around they blame russia russia is responsible for all the all the problems in the world you know everything that goes wrong its all russias fault but actually when when people want to go and investigate and say no actually look lets send an impartial group of scientists you know and a list to go away and. Do their investigation we cant have the why because america knows that its lying knows that the lie will be exposed and this is what america fears world many think it needs a bogeyman and right now if you look at america not just in syria but everywhere you look at what america is doing in yemen by funding and supplying dangerous and lake horrible munitions to. The saudi regime they have their fingers in every crime going on in the world of course we you know we can we can get into what theyre doing to palestine and how the american policies are resulting in the deaths of palestinians the incarceration of palestinians. Especially since the clown donald trump turned around and you know made this ridiculous claim the jerusalem is the eternal capital of israel when the world knows International Law dictates that it is an occupied place ok so america is just you know its being the bully its being the spoiled child this is what it does and until we get a sensible same government in america i think this sort of insanity is going to continue unfortunately the thoughts are no a political analyst commentary thanks for your take this hour. Well Rex Tillerson blaming moscow for Chemical Attacks in syria iraq as dhea of the suffering and devastation caused by washingtons involvement in the conflict the end justifies that means they say some things no matter how orrible just have to be done these are hard core fighters they have to be rooted out this is an ugly business but it is necessary business its only when the dust settles and you see what youve done that you start having second thoughts this is when you say. What did i just do. The devastation goes back as far as you can see it is almost beyond description how deep the damage is as many as a thousand strikes a month on record alone just airstrikes not including artillery tanks and all that more than eighty percent of the city was deemed unfit to live in by the u. N. At city hall but raised so lets start with the obvious incredible work has to be done just to get people back into their homes except we wont pay