Boy requires double mastectomy after taking SSRI

[Guest]

In May 2009, CBS News reported that Risperdal was causing boys to grow breasts due to increased prolactin levels caused by the drug. The news segment featured a boy who was prescribed Risperdal for ADHD, and had to undergo a double mastectomy to remove the breasts.

Philadelphia attorney, Steve Sheller, represents six boys who developed breasts after taking Risperdal, in lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson. Two have had mastectomies.

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[AlteredStateGrl]

What does this have to do with Cannabis Activism?

[Guest]

What does this have to do with Cannabis Activism?

Huh?

Well, firstly, that is what the proponents of prohibition claim; that marijuana makes men grow breasts.

It seems very obvious to me that the best arguement for medical marijuana and against prohibition are the side-effects of the legal drugs.

If it weren't for the side-effects, and addiction, of the legal drugs there wouldn't be a medical marijuana movement in the first place.

Sheesh.

[©antSEEme]

he's probably implying that marijuana would be better treatment than risperdal for adhd. guessing, of course

and i find this quote more disturbing than kids with tits, although thats disturbing aswell.

On June 3, 2009, Medscape reported that findings presented at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting, on the preliminary results from the "Metabolic Effects of Antipsychotics in Children" study, "show that 12 weeks of initial antipsychotic treatment was associated with significant mean increases in overall adiposity and percentage of body fat, as well as a decrease in whole-body insulin sensitivity."

"Further," Medscape said, "the investigators found antipsychotic treatment was also linked to significant increases in body-mass index (BMI) percentile and fasting plasma triglyceride levels, both clinically available indicators of adverse metabolic changes associated with increased adiposity."

In terms of live-long health issues, "This is a serious problem," says Dr Steven Nissen, chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, and past president of the American College of Cardiology.

"The substantial increase in body fat and increased insulin resistance will almost certainly lead to a higher lifelong incidence of diabetes," he warns.

"Diabetes is a major cause of heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, blindness, and limb amputation," Dr Nissen points out.

edit: nvrmnd. im slow.

[AlteredStateGrl]

you're not slow, he didn't have any of that explanation in his first attempt at a reply. he keeps adding and editing.

[Storm Crow]

Perhaps the irony? Prohibitionists used to say that cannabis would make males grow breasts. Now here is a poor lad who grew breasts from a drug that cannabis could likely replace.

But, yes the post is misplaced.


Granny

[Guest]

you're not slow, he didn't have any of that explanation in his first attempt at a reply. he keeps adding and editing.

yeah, it usually takes me about half an hour to get it right.

And I was going to add the part about cannabis being an effective treatment for ADD, ADHD, and just about everything else the SSRIs and their cousins the SNRIs (or whatever they are) are prescribed for.

And probably a bunch more.

But that part about the insulin absorption and diabetes has me worried, and could explain some of my current health problems as I am a victim of SSRI toxic shock.

I actually found the entire article extremely disturbing.

[AlteredStateGrl]

lol...it's cool. all your OP was a link to a story...which outright didn't have a direct link to cannabis activism. i was just asking/looking for some clarity.

[Guest]

Perhaps the irony? Prohibitionists used to say that cannabis would make males grow breasts. Now here is a poor lad who grew breasts from a drug that cannabis could likely replace.

But, yes the post is misplaced.


Granny

Well, where would YOU put it?

(NaturalNews) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning a few years ago that pregnant women taking the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant paroxetine risk giving birth to infants with major birth defects, including heart abnormalities (http://www.naturalnews.com/021225_P...). Now comes word that the same drug (sold as Paxil, Paxil CR, Seroxat, Pexeva, and generic paroxetine hydrochloride) carries another danger that could keep babies from being born in the first place. A new study just published in the online edition of the journal Fertility and Sterility concludes as many as fifty percent of all men taking the antidepressant could have damaged sperm and compromised fertility.

New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers followed 35 healthy male volunteers who took paroxetine for five weeks. Then sperm samples from the men were studied using an assay called terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) to evaluate whether there were missing pieces of genetic code in the sperm DNA. This condition, know as DNA fragmentation, is associated with reproductive problems.

The results? The percentage of men with abnormal DNA fragmentation soared from less than 10 percent to 50 percent while taking the antidepressant. This is a crucial finding because DNA fragmentation has long been known to correlate with an increased risk of birth defects, poor fertility and unsuccessful pregnancy outcomes -- even when high tech, extraordinarily expensive fertility enhancing techniques such as in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection are used.

http://www.naturalnews.com/026483_SS...ility_DNA.html

[Guest]

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[Mydriasis]

I think this has ALOT to do with prohibition. I use cannabis to treat depression verses the SSRI's I used to take and become zombified. I don't smoke it as some escape caveat(I haven't smoked in over a month) but when it comes down to taking your own life or smoking a spliff and attacking things from a different angle. Well, I think we all know the right path .

It just goes to show that all these pharmacists slaving hours in dark rooms with bright lights trying to imitate nature, are wasting our time(in some cases).