Researcher: 60,000 Americans Now Taking Antipsychotics Will Die Prematurely
A former British Columbia government health economist who was fired under controversial circumstances says that his research was showing that 60,000 Americans now taking antipsychotic medications will die prematurely, reports The Tyee.
"There are 60,000 people who are going to die needlessly because they haven't been warned of the side effects of these drugs," Bill Warburton tells The Tyee. Warburton previously had research access to the health records of millions of British Columbia citizens, but was dismissed by the government during a controversial "purge" of an entire team of pharmaceutical drug policy analysts in 2012. The government has been gradually backtracking on the firings after media exposed questions about pharmaceutical industry influence.
The Tyee reports that, "Bill Warburton's notice of claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court in 2013 said, 'The province's acts against Dr. Warburton are part of a bad faith program by the defendants to end the investigation of harmful effects of drugs which risk leading to diminishing payments to their political contributors.'"
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More proof (if more were actually needed) that Big Pharma, in collusion with our sold-out government regulators, will always put profits before health and safety.
—- Steve
Oh I would bet my life itself that the number is way, way higher than that. At least a half a million. I guess, it depends on how this guy defines “prematurely”, because taking those drugs for even a short period of time will permanently damage most peoples health. Two permanent “side effects” of those drugs — Diabetes and Tardive Dyskinesia — themselves will take 20-30 years off of life expectancy. Millions of people take those brain damaging, metabolic disaster causing drugs. At least a few hundred thousand children would have spent most of their entire childhood on them, and turn 18 being expected to be on them for the rest of their lives, with NAMI parents in support of forced drugging laws to make sure it happens.
60,000? Does anyone know what this guy defines prematurely as?
I guess that’s what they call “a conservative estimate” – still apparently it’s enough to get you fired.
i dont think this is really true, even for those of us whove been on antipsychotics for long periods of time, the brain has remarkable healing mechanisms and can reconfigure itself. for me personally even though i was on antipsychotics over 12 years from a young age i expect my brain/body to heal and i could live till im 95!
If you had doubts that governments are complicit in hiding corporations’ crimes…
Poisons that are not poisons. LOL.
The heavy ball and chain attached to the prisoner , severely limits the ability to jump when the prisoner is told to jump.
Sad commentary.
Good thing Robert Whitaker isn’t a doctor – he probably would have been fired for his book “Anatomy of An Epidemic”, which makes this point precisely.