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Greetings! Happy New Year everyone! We are very excited
about opening our detoxification center and helping people have a wonderful
drug-free New Year. Our purpose continues to be that we are here to help.
All of our renovations are designed to make
our patients' stay as relaxed and comfortable as possible. We know that the
detox process is not always comfortable but we also know that the proper
environment makes the process easier.
We are really looking forward to our
opening, and for those of you who have reached out to us to help someone you
know, we look forward to being able to take care of them soon!
“Pregnant women and those who might
become pregnant should avoid taking the antidepressant Paxil because of a
high risk of birth defects, according to a committee of obstetricians who
published their opinion yesterday in the December issue of the Journal of
Obstetrics & Gynecology. The Obstetric Practice Committee of the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said pregnant women should not
take Paxil -- a member of a class of antidepressants known as SSRIs
(selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) -- because two previous studies
found that the drug posed up to double the risk of heart defects in fetuses.
Nearly a year ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and
GlaxoSmithKline -- which manufactures Paxil -- changed the warnings on the
drug to include the results of the studies. The FDA then advised pregnant
women to merely switch from Paxil to another SSRI drug, such as Prozac or
Zoloft. (Emphasis added.) The most common defects caused by antidepressants
were holes or other malformations in the chambers of the heart. The
obstetricians went a step further than the FDA in recommending that women
avoid Paxil and reconsider using any SSRI antidepressant during pregnancy.
(Emphasis added.) However, consumer health advocate Mike Adams calls the
FDA's caution last year and the obstetricians' current opinion
"after-the-fact warnings," since Paxil and other SSRIs are still
being prescribed to pregnant women, often without warning of the possible
harm to unborn children. ’It demonstrates yet again how patients are
guinea pigs when it comes to pharmaceutical safety, and how the current drug
safety testing system is entirely inadequate,’ Adams said. ‘Plus,
there's the fact that antidepressant drugs imbalance blood sugar metabolism,
worsening gestational diabetes.’ he said. ’This fact is almost
never explained to expectant mothers who are prescribed such pills.’
Paxil is currently one of the most popular antidepressants in the world, and
roughly 25 percent of its users are women of childbearing age -- between 18
and 45.”
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