Michael Jackson and Zoloft
All right, let’s predict what’s coming next: the list of drugs MJ was allegedly taking will include some psych drugs (Zoloft, I’m hearing), which will cause the Hollywood Hubbardians to get their knickers in a twist. So let’s say what needs to be said before the bombs are launched: It’s not the drugs that are bad. It’s abusing drugs that’s bad.
Jackson, whose cause of death is still unknown, is rumored to have been taking a lotsa meds, all at once. From various sources via Furious Seasons:
“Life & Style reports that Michael Jackson was taking a cocktail of up to seven prescription drugs in the months before his death.
“And a Jackson family lawyer told CNN he ‘feared’ the drugs could kill the pop star.
“The star had been taking prescription painkillers including anti-anxiety drugs Xanax, Zoloft and painkiller Demerol in recent months, sources close to Jackson told Life & Style.
Poor Michael. If it’s true that he’d been taking this cocktail, and it was diagnosed by his doctor, we’ll certainly be hearing more about it.
liz | 7:38 PM | celebrities
But come on, couldn’t you say that about any drug? Notwithstanding I’d guess it is not zoloft, but some kind of opiate that is the real problem, although if he was taking benzo’s and amphetamines on top of these as well as drinking large amounts of wine, it certainly complicates things.
“Notwithstanding I’d guess it is not zoloft”
I am OFF Zoloft for 128 days now… Have you ever taken 100mg a day off that stuff? It makes you “want” other things to “help” which is suddenly a cocktail of potential death.
Zoloft is bad. This happens (Zoloft +____) killing someone more than people know
128 C&S (No beer and no pills)
no Liz is right.
Well, I’m on 200 mg of Zoloft daily and it’s the primary reason I’m still alive. These issues are always way more complex than “good” and “bad”. I think there was a lot more wrong with Michael Jackson than his meds although that may have ultimately pushed him over the ledge. It was a combination of a million and one things. Dave
I’ve gotta wonder how many MDs he really had. That was the problem with Heath Ledger: Not many private-practice docs can say no to a super-rich celebrity, making it that much easier for the celebrity to doctor-shop & get scrips for multiple contraindicated drugs w/no one MD aware of what’s mixing with what. If pharmaceuticals did kill him, it’s likely far more about the combinations than any one drug.
Poor Michael. If he was on Zoloft, he’s another victim of the pharma industry. From an insider – Pfizer and their medical team(s) lied about side effects Zoloft (Sertraline HCl), or Tandosporine as it was known in the early 90s. It caused strong suicidal urges in test subjects who were not even depressed – so much so that one early study had to be abruptly terminated. Other extremely serious side effects in studies went unreported. SSRIs, of which Zoloft is one, are addictive under the ‘old’ definition of the word – causing psychological or physicological symptoms of withdrawal upon a decrease in dosage. Unfortunately, the old definition was replaced with a new one that fits with big pharma and the term they coined for the withdrawal symptoms of SSRIs – “discontinuation syndrome.” What the hell does that mean? SSRIs can have very serious and permanent side effects after dosage is discontinued, including Tardive Dyskinesia. And they should NEVER EVER be given to someone with insomnia, as they can make the insomnia extremely severe. I urge those who have a vested interest to go out and find some good books on the subject. Here are a couple:
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/br-afb.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=8H9mmgCddPEC&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=zoloft+tardive&source=bl&ots=xjnWgS1_xV&sig=aWsnyYFqFmANu4U6Od0wDETYJX4&hl=en&ei=AAxOSuyHL5L6sQO7vtnGBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7
AND
For Tardive Dyskinesia, see: http://www.consumernewsweekly.com/reglan-tardive-dyskinesia-warning-by-fda/
Didn’t Anna Nicole Smith’s son, Daniel Wayne, die from an overdose that included Zoloft? And wasn’t Anna Nicole also on Zoloft when she died? And didn’t Keth Ledger’s die from heart failure while on Zoloft combined with other drugs? And wasn’t Hollywood’s former SNL star Phil Hartman murdered by his wife, Brynn, while she was on Zoloft? The deeper you look, the longer the list gets. And now Michael Jackson is… dead.
Don, aspirin and penicillin have killed many people as well. They have also helped people. What is your point, exactly? Zoloft is somehow magically more deadly than any other pharmaceutical, ever?
My point is Zoloft is prescribed not because people need it, but because both the public has been advertised into wanting it. Everybody wants something that will make them feel good. And doctors love a pill that they can prescribed ($$$) and send their patient on their merry way. We take an aspirin because we have a headache. We take an antibiotic because we have an infection. But we take Zoloft because someone convinced us that it’s the right thing to do. Zoloft increases suicides. Zoloft increases murders. Zoloft causes death by cardiac arrest when combined with other drugs. If Michael Jackson died from cardiac arrest while he was on Zoloft, it was another preventable death. I predicted a Zoloft tie-in as soon as I heard the words cardiac-arrest, but it doesn’t mean Zoloft was involved – just a prediction.
P.S. Phil Hartman’s wife killed herself after killing him. And clinical studies have shown that Zoloft is no more an effective antidepresseant than a placebo.
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