She’s EXPOSING the horrifying truth of anti-depressants and Big Pharma is not happy | Redacted News

Well, we’ve seen a number of mass shootings across the United States over the past few decades and they’ve all been tragic. But they’ve all had one thing in common. Can you name it? I bet if you think about it real hard, you probably wouldn’t be able to come up with an answer. Is it skin color? No there’s been white Mass Shooters, Black Mass Shooters, Asian Mass shooters that has nothing to do with it. In fact, the Ma the mainstream media would love to keep this entirely quiet, but they do all have one thing in common. They’ve all been on anti-depressants Ssris, something that the mainstream media and Big Pharma Don’t want you to know about. Why are we not being told about this? We’ll get to the bottom of that.

Our next guest is a leading Global Drug safety Advocate. Her name is Kim Witczak. She’s become involved in this issue. Uh, when her husband tragically suddenly died due to an undisclosed side effect of an anti-depressant She’s now on the Fda advisory committee and she‘s made it her mission to educate all of us about the these dangers.

Kim welcome to the show! thank you so much for joining us. Thanks thanks for having me! well it’s such an important issue and I think it’s probably informative for our audience. First of all it’s amazing to hear that you’re on the Fda advisory committee now and that just made my head spin when I first heard that. But I think it’s informative for our audience to kind of go back and really set the stage here and how you got involved in this. Can you tell us what happened to your husband specifically? I think you call yourself an accidental Advocate now. Can you kind of walk us back and paint a picture for us? Sure. Well, I call myself The Accidental Advocate because I never chose to do this work and sometimes our greatest purposes choose us. And I was married um, back in 2003 to my best friend, my husband of 10 years and um, on August 6, 2003 I got a call that forever changed my life. My dad called to tell me that my husband was found hanging from the rafter of our garage dead at age 37 and Woody wasn’t Depressed.

Woody had no history of depression or any other mental illness. Woody had just started his dream job with a startup company and was having trouble sleeping and Woody was a guy who needed eight hours of sleep and you know he wasn’t getting eight hours of sleep. So he as a lot of people did, um and do. He went to his doctor because he was having trouble sleeping and wood he was. I always called him like the Humpty. You know the doctors put him back together. He was an athlete and so he did. You know he just did what he would have done which is like hey Dc I’m not sleeping and the doctor gave him a three-week sample pack of an anti-depressant Zoloft and told him it would take the edge off and help him sleep and I happened to be out of the country during those first three weeks that he was put on the drug. We both traveled for our careers and I was down in New Zealand on an advertising production so I wasn’t there when Woody first got put on these drugs and the dosage changed but I will never forget when I came back to um back home and I was excited to see him and and I’ll forget he walked through our back door he was in a blue dress shirt like completely drenched through it fell on the floor and with his hands around his head and he’s like Kim you got to help me I don’t know what’s happening to me it’s like my head’s outside my body looking in he’s rocking back and forth balling and I had never seen this before and I remember we calmed him down and we like let’s pray let’s breathe let’s you know you know whatever this thing was and he called his doctor somebody who he’s seen for years and the doctor said you got to give it four to six weeks to kick in and so so to stay to stay on it to stay on these drugs not to not to get off of them but to stay on it yeah so I don’t think and it’s kind of one of the things that you know we’ll get into it but it’s one of the things that a lot of times when people are having adverse offense um events or Effects by these drugs doctors don’t recognize it being a side effect of the drug and this was a side effect of the drug clearly but Woody was told to stay on it.

So every night the next week of his life Woody came home and he’d be like what do you think about hypnosis? what do you think about acupuncture? Everything was to beat this feeling out of his head and so on August 6 I will never forget I was. It was my busy time of my season and I was out of town. I hadn’t heard from him so I’m like hey Dad do me a favor go check and see if you know Woody’s um all right I’m thinking he maybe hit his head like he was having trouble sleeping. Never in a million million million years would have I expected to get the call that I did that my husband was hanging because Wood love life and that night I’ll never forget. You know I’m in Detroit trying to figure out how to get back home and the corner. got on the phone and asked me um one question she goes was he taking any medication and the only medication Woody was on was Zola and she said we might have to take it with we’re G to take it with us. It might have something to do with his death and so that was clue number one. And clue number two was the front page of our newspaper had an article that said the Uk finds link between anti-depressant and suicide in teens and so those were really like wouldn’t

I you know, like I said, we both traveled all the time and we left notes for each other and I’m like literally would you went on your biggest trip of your life and you didn’t leave a note but those were his notes I really believe you know that meaning you know the question that the coroner asked and the front page of the paper that night and then intuitively in every part of my body I knew there’s no way Woody would take his own life. So really my brother-in-law Googled um that night Googled Zolof and suicide and literally did um We had no idea that in 1991 the Fda held hearings on the Um link between violence and suicide and Prozac and at that time all of the committee members voted. They said nope, we don’t see any Um there’s no link. Fast forward the Fda tells Eli Lily to study suicidality. They never did. The Fda never followed up. Meanwhile, we now get Um Zolof on the market. We have Paxel on the market, It gets approved for kids and that is really the scenario of what was going on in 2003 when my husband died tragically.

I’m so sorry. Unbelievable and Incredibly tragic and and I think you would maybe argue. Totally preventable. 100% preventable. You know I even look back and you know why did he get an anti-depressant like he didn’t even know it was an anti-depressant You know he just did. With what a lot of people do which is trust their doctors right? Trust that their doctor is giving them a medication that’s supposed to help him, certainly not hurt him. And then I think you know. The other thing I learned is you know the doctors believe and trust that the Fda has done their job right. So the whole system is built in um built on this. You know this premise of trust and faith and you know the the White Coat and you know doctors know better than you. And so there’s So many things that went wrong and really that became kind of our mission that to go get warnings, put on these Med Um on these drugs and get blackbox warnings. Because at this time there were no Fda blackbox suicide warnings on these medications.

So it became as I like to call it, our battle for Woody and so it involved. I mean I had you know, I got on a plane and I kept going back and forth to Washington, Dc. We worked with Congress, met with Fda officials, Uh, we had a big I had a big wrongful death lawsuit against Fizer and also used the media. You know the media W you know Woody story was told because it was opposite and at this point we also connected with a lot of families. There were so many families and parents of kids that were given these medications to like for test anxiety they broke up with their boyfriends they’re having you know trouble adjusting to new moves and so you start putting that all together and it told a very different story than what was being told to the public. And you know looking at all of the the environment in which we live in to the advertising environment right and everybody is like Prozac It’s the happy pill and you know. So you go back and you look at all of what was happening out there and the narrative that was being told at that time. But once you start really digging in and you know um I think one of the biggest things was meeting the families hearing seeing what the Fda was doing but literally having that lawsuit against Viser where um my lawyers you know. The documents that they got out from under seal showed a very very different story than what we were being told.

Let’s talk about this. the power of litigation right? We it’s incredibly sad we’ve seeing it with Covid of course we’re seeing it with Covid medications and vaccines quote unquote vaccines that we’re really only getting answers thanks to lawsuits We’re only getting answers thanks to litigation and I used to be of the opinion you years ago. Oh America is the most sue happy country in the world You know Now I’m Okay with it. to be honest with you. I’m okay with it because we get answers. We get answers through litigation through Discovery process. Seeing these documents that these these companies are been kept under seal for so long and wouldn’t share with us. Uh so can you talk about this sort of spiderweb that you started to uncover and unravel thanks to these lawsuits? Sure. Well first of all I kind of had that same attitude that you did about lawsuits. They’re frivolous. You know that was kind of what we were being told, right? They’re frivolous like I’ll never forget. Like that woman who sued I think it was Mcdonald’s for putting the coffee cup right and Spilled and I’m like she she got burned with the coffee. Yeah yeah and I remember going oh she’s an idiot like why would you put that? Well What I subsequently learned actually that lawsuit was pivotal in changing the temperature in which coffee at fast food restaurants is sold. So yeah in fact I it’s crazy it’s crazy You bring up this story. Can I just a little point of privilege here. A friend of mine actually worked on a documentary for I think 48 hours at the time the television show 48 Hours and she was. So when I I had the same reaction to that and she said we worked on the story about the woman who burned herself with the the coffee you know and I laughed I said come on you can’t you going Sue Mcdonald’s because of that

Yeah then you dive deeply into it and you realize how the those mechanical those coffee pots were being blasted and anyway it’s much more it’s much deeper than just this. Oh she’s an idiot for having a coffee cup in her lap and that’s how it it was really really fascinating to challenge my belief system on that I guess is the way to say right? Yeah and and that’s kind of how it was for me. but you know one thing even and it is one of the elements and we’ll get into the the spiderweb but is how um, Pharma knows how to work the legal system too right? And you know during this time a lot of people don’t realize that Fizer had given a guy who got appointed Chief counsel at the Fda, Dan Troy, um he was appointed the Chief counsel and started intervening in private lawsuits against Fiser by using something called the preemption brief basically saying even if Fizer wanted to warn, they wouldn’t the Fda didn‘t see it as an issue so preemption you know took over State’s rights Etc. So we have to expose that

And it was interesting because that was kind of the first like sign of this idea of Ro revolving doors. So dant Troy eventually got exposed, he left and went to and he went on to become the Global Council for Glos Smith Klein and so it was one of those things like even the ability to hold drug companies accountable. We were able to hold Fizer accountable and were able to get all these documents out through it wasn’t discovered in my lawsuit. They were discovered because there were all sorts of lawsuits that were happening during this time and I don’t know if you remember uh um Phil Hartman who was on Saturday Night Live and he yes yes yes yeah and so he got murdered, he was murdered by his wife and then um she killed herself. Well she had just started Zola and they had big litigation the family did against Fizer but it was all secretly settled and so you know there were a lot of things were happening during the time of Woody’s death and so anyways this um Law Firm that I work with and they’re one of the top out there out in La. They were able to get these.

these documents were all sealed. I mean they were sealed. Fizer for many years argued that they were trade secret but the Federal judge in my case looked at it and said this isn’t Federal, these aren’t trade secrets So he released them and I literally went around Dc with binders full of documents and these documents told a very different story that the Fda and Fiser knew about it. It was also the behaviors of how the companies like talking about withdrawal. Let’s Not tell that. Wait a minute. Can you back up a second? Because I I I just want to be very clear when you were going around. these documents were showing that the Fda and Fizer knew about these side effects and the withdrawal side effects and a whole host of other side effects. They knew about it and they kept it from the American people right? That‘s what was in these documents? Yes, Okay, I just want to be very clear about that. I have my binder here.

So this is the binder that I literally marched around Washington Dc, met with any like members of Congress, hand delivered them to the Fda that showed how Fiser actually um looked at you know they the Fda was asking about some side effects um in report and they and Fizer’s response was should we give them the simple straightforward report or the complicated confusing one I’m like how is that even possible Like of course you should give them the simple straightforward, answer their questions but that’s not what they do. So they play games you know looking at like I didn’t realize that even um Flexitine which is Proac in Germany it initially was never approved for two reasons: lack of efficacy and risk of suicide. that was in the 80s and So eventually the Fda approved it. They got it approved the Bga which is the Fda equivalent in Germany. They did get it approved now wouldn’t That be kind of nice for the public and even our doctors to understand that there’s a whole history of these medications and there was even a document inside um that Fizer was said.

I don’t think Flutin which is the generic name or the chemical name for Prozac is out of the woods yet with its association with suicide and violence and so they knew about it. this is in the 90s. Woody died in 2003 and now we’re at 200 you know 24 and it just it continues to go and you know it’s Interesting when you look at D because they tell a very very very different story. Something you said at the beginning of the interview is that the Fda was holding these hearings or having these meetings at least back in. I think you said 1991 on suicide right? They were having these meetings and members of Congress were just sort of signing off on it saying there’s nothing here. So first of all did they know then when they were holding these meetings that it was causing that the that was one of the side effects and number two if they were do if they were holding these meetings and they had the Fda had this information and data from Germany and other places Were they hiding and covering it up?

Yeah so going back to the 91 hearings if you look at who’s on it and that’s it’s Ironic because that’s actually the Fda Advisory committee I sit on today, the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee. Almost every member on that committee had Financial ties to the companies who are making anti-depressant makers and so that’s where I learned about that right again. Um and now I do think there were things that the Fda may not have known because um there were some documents that came out of from like Fiser Uk that was happening over in another part of the world Now should because Fizer is responsible for all of their Global right. even if they they know what’s happening in the Uk. maybe the Fda doesn’t and you know maybe we didn’t have the same kind of connection and you know um information sharing that we do today but Fiser knew so somebody knew about this right? But you know when you look back at those 91 hearings where those you know the the members had ties to Industry making other antidepressants not the Proac that wasn’t just on suicide that was suicide and violence and so we I always have to remind people that that hearing wasn’t even though Woody died of suicide which in my mind suicide is violence against yourself versus homicide is violence against others but they were already investigating that link in 91.

Wow so what let’s talk about some of the side effects here. I mean I let’s let’s really kind of dive into maybe some of the different medications and some of the side effects that we know exist verifiably exist in the documents and it’s provable. Can you walk through some of those? Sure. Well, one of the ones that was actually kept from the public is a side effect called Akathesia. Ak Um, Athesia is like an internal agitation where you just want to like scratch it out of you you’re constantly moving it’s kind of um where like Woody that head outside the body and literally one of the documents that Um was. Fizer Chief Medical Officer Dr. Roger Lane had written an article discussing what Athesia is in a journal that is public. But what wasn’t public was the memo that he sent to his sales staff that said the attached Journal article may not be suitable for General Practitioners, but only for neuro, neurologically inclined psych, um psychiatrists. And in that Um Journal article he said if a person experiences Athesia which is that internal like restlessness quote unquote his words, death may be a welcome result because you just want it to end.

And so they kept that from Gps and so this is what I’m saying like when you saw all this in black and white on their letterhead this is and my husband’s dead and you guys knew this like I don’t understand so that is one that is a very that It sounds like Malthusian. I mean not to get to a whole other level but it sounds like Malthusian almost like population control in a way like they’re excited about this idea. I mean we see it in Canada there certainly happy about it up there. um they know about it and they’re they’re just fine to go along with it. Yeah exactly So this was something they knew and it’s called Athesia. other ones are like you know now we’re learning about all the sexual dysfunction that is happening from anti-depressants which you know some of that might be more stopping people from taking these you know medications um there’s the withdrawal There‘s issues when you stop these drugs that um that you there some people like even Paxel had huge litig ation against withdrawal. people couldn’t get off of these medications because their bodies were addicted so they knew there was an addictive quality.

There also were um things links to heart defects and birth defects with parents and they were telling the moms it was fine to be on your anti-depressant during pregnancy and so these were all during but wait wait they were telling them it’s fine even though they knew it wasn’t somebody they had litigation about this afterwards so this is where people like once you start looking it’s also why I always tell people before you go on any medication just go see if there’s any litigation because litigation doesn‘t just happen right? But those are some of the side effects and then of course you brought up at the beginning of the show just the idea of you know we’ve had all these mass shootings You know that really? I think in my mind what was going on at that time was Coline because we had some of the kids from Colin Bine that actually showed up at the Fda Advisory committee meetings in 2004 and 2006 because eventually did um the Fda did add blackbox suicide warnings but there were kids from Coline that were there that were actually testifying during those hearings and so I always thought it was really interesting that you know again I go back to my documents.

um there was a Fizer had a Zolof prosecutor manual they that that was in their files that they were helping to create a prosecutor manual and that was from like the 1998 so they clearly knew that there was some kind of Link um to these drugs and I can literally show you and I’ll send you all you know send you these documents because again when you see them in black and white in their letterhead the timeline and then you look at what’s happening now so I never understood. So when we met with the Fda um the people responsible for the psychiatric drugs um Tom Lockran and Roger um and um Bob Temple and we told him like how did Woody go from not sleeping five weeks later head outside his body to dead in five weeks right? That should make you be curious to go out and investigate and so you know I go. When that coroner asked if he was on any medication that was a you know that was a good question that she asked right?

So then when I look at all these shootings instead of you know looking at you know everybody goes down like the guns and you know goes down that that path. Why aren’t we going back and I don’t like I’m not saying causation I’m not saying any of that but we’re not even asking the question right why are we ask? That is a great question and that’s why I sort of started off this piece by talking about that. How it’s immediately people go into their Corners in like a boxing ring. yeah you know proun anti-gun Yeah totally missing the point which is Ssris and the common theme among all of them is Ssris. They’re not being talked about and it’s being suppressed. Have you been able to uncover why you think no one’s talking about it? Well I think it’s big business. I also think you know when I a actually after Parkland Florida remember the Parkland Florida shooting um my attorneys went down to meet with some of the families I got on a plane. I go. I just need to go talk like nobody was paying me to do this. I just needed to go show them the documents because I’m so tired of another one happens another one happens and we keep asking the question why is this happening I’m like um I doesn’t take a rocket science like I’m just a lay person and I can say why aren’t we asking the question questions but once you start looking at the system right you know there’s Behavioral Health and you’ve got all those that use the anti-depressants it’s such a big part of what’s going you know the system, they shut it down right away saying a tippa and I think that they don’t want it to um you know there are people who will say that they call them the closers they come in the fixers to like kind of shut up all of the mental health I’ve always said if there’s a shooting Hippa doesn’t apply I we need to know what drugs a person was on and we should be demanding it as the public and right right Do we really care After this person has killed 15 people we care about their medical privacy rights right? No I don’t sorry yeah lost that yeah I don’t care like that should be and so I you know every time there’s another shooting I’m like well here we go again it’s just like what is that um the um Groundhog Day right?

just it’s gonna again all sitting ducks like we’re all sitting ducks but instead it’s one of those things that I think you know back in the day even when I look at whether or not people wanted to even recognize the suicide risk I feel like there’s so many people that are on medications anyways that also don’t want to believe that these can cause um the issue. so I think there’s that kind of bias anyways but then there’s the the money and even now looking at all of what’s happening in America they’re trying to do more and more school-based medical. um you know Health Systems in the school where you know they’re handing out these you know like when I went to school nurses you go to the nurse station when you had a stomach ache but now they’re starting to put medical like health centers in schools and you know drugs are being handed out and so I think we need to really take a step back and just ask the question but if we can’t even do it with what we’ve seen the last three years.

I think this is actually another huge huge issue that we meaning you and I, the public we have to be the ones that demand this because the powers at Be are not going to look at it. Now that’s why we’re doing this story because I’m I’m passionate about I think it’s incredibly important and no one’s talking about it and uh and we need to shine a light on This When you look at these shootings, you see this common denominator in all of them. All of them that at least we know about at least through court documents and others that yes, they’re all on Ss Ssris, They’re all on these anti-depressants and they don’t want you to know about it and of course the litigation hides it.

I’m curious on the Fda advisory piece of this. So you you’re now on the Fda Advisory committee. The very committee that was looking the other way was taking money from the pharmaceutical companies and had interests in that regard. So now you’re sitting on this Fda Advisory committee.

Number One: How in the world did that happen? Yeah, it certainly doesn’t. seem like they’d want you in there. Uh, Number two, can you make? Have you been able to affect change by being in there? I mean these drugs are already on the market. Is there your your one voice? But are you? How are you? Are you able to call attention to this in a larger way at the Fda to have these things pulled off the market?

Uh good question. I know I keep asking like how did this happen? How did it get on this committee But it happened. I think back years ago when I testified in front of the Senate one of the Fda Commissioners like we should get you put on to one of the Committees. Little did I know, um that I would actually get placed I’m the consumer representative so I voice I represent the public and it’s an interesting because when I look at that role in a lot of other committees they like even if I look at the verac which is you know the one right now with the covid vaccines that consumer rep is a doctor and so it’s really like it’s a very interesting position that I even actually got placed on that position and so I take my role extremely serious. I get to see D You know I get to see the data before I get to ask questions of not only the Fda, but the sponsor and more importantly I get to vote whether or not to recommend an approval or not. Right and there‘s been a couple I’m often the lone vote.

So when you ask do I feel like I’m making a change um I feel like I hit my head around a big brick wall and think why am I doing this because often I am the only no vote BEC and I’ve learned to see that harms and the that’s whole safe and effective the game is it’s a mar it’s marketing it’s to get it on the market because once it’s on the market doctors can use drugs the way they want right? and so I think safety is always like I’ve noticed in this safety is like a afterthought everybody thinks oh it’ll eventually get caught down the road and for me safety should always be the priority because especially it’s new right?

So one of the products and it’s also one that is linked to violence um and has had is Chantex. So it’s not even just the anti-depressant that can have links to the violence and like the shootings but Chantex is the Um Cessation drug and Fizer um it was their product and they wanted to get the blackbox warning so there were 2700 lawsuits um settled for like $300 million. Then they went to the Fda to get that warning removed. That was a neuros psychiatric violence. I mean violence was part of it suicide and I was excited because now I’m on the committee so I was going to ask like how come where are all the 2700 victims Well Fizer shut them all up through litigation and so they could never tell their story public. So da so I’m like that was excited because if we’re going to remove a warning on these drugs that has never happened we need to know why right

And so three days before that hearing that I got a call from the Fda that it had come to their attention that I had an intellectual bias so I got kicked was not able to serve on that committee. Um but I still showed up I said I’m still coming out I’m going to speak at the public hearing because people like my committee who was GNA take a warning off that the whole reason the warning got put on was because of all the lawsuits and all of the the the actual harms that came out of and discovered after and so I I still showed up but that is a classic example of what it’s like to be on those committees. I would think they would want to hear from somebody like me but they don’t like you know my term’s up and I’m pretty sure I’ll not be asked back I did. They did extend it during Covid probably more because they didn’t have time to you know to do the research or bring somebody else out. Yeah yeah but yeah so I that’s really has been eye openening experience sitting on that committee.

So the long answer to say do I think I have been able to implement change on that level I will bring it up so it’s on record but the reality is no it’s really people and and it’s not going to change within the system. I think it’s going to be conversations like we’re having in the public is really where the change is going to happen.

Awareness: So it’s not being swept and suppressed through lawsuits. uh not even lawsuits. I’m sorry through um paying people people off you know quiet settling, settling with them so we can’t hear about it right? um we can’t hear about it anymore and it’s then kept quiet right? We certainly saw this with sexual. We We certainly saw this with uh, sexual assault and other things in the workplace. Um, through litigation and through settlements. and we’ve seen changes in Congress that have allowed some of that now to be unsealed that these sort of gag orders, these uh, non-disclosure agreements and things like that can now be erased for the common good and for the purpose of trying to prevent harm in other people. So maybe this will carry over into litigation regarding Pharmaceuticals, suicide, mass shootings. We would hope that at least we could see some movement there.

What? What do you want? What do you want? Your, Your, your, your husband’s Legacy to be in this? What is your goal in all of this? What are you? What are you hoping over the next few years that we could see change in the United States?

Well it’s Funny, I always look back at who Woody was and he always said I’ll never judge my life based on how much money I make my career. It’s leaving the world a better place and I have come to accept that it needed to be somebody like Woody that had nothing to kind of expose the the dangers of these medications and the system. and so for me it’s using his story so that no other family has to be blindsided like we were. No one should have to learn this after the fact and I literally just got contacted and I get contact all the time from people who are putting it together and they put it together afterwards. And one thing that I hadn’t even really thought about was this person um whose husband just got married, second marriage October. It doubled like they were on 150, milligrams was on 50 and it all came from tele medicine they hadn’t even seen their doctor. It was a tele medicine and I thought oh my God that’s another whole area that I haven’t even started to explore yet but you know it is one of those things no family should ever have to learn. and that’s why I keep telling this story.

It’ll never get old it’ll never bring Woody back. The litigation will never bring Woody back. Money won’t bring Woody back. but if we can help so that somebody else doesn’t have to learn the hard way, then let’s do it right. Preventing a suicide or preventing another mass shooting with the same common denominator. Um, yeah, absolutely Uh, that would be an incredible Legacy.

Uh well, I want to hear from our audience too on this. You know, please leave a comment here below this video and um we’re going to link up in the description to Kim’s website Kim Substack and also just contact Information Outreach to try to share your story. Please you know if you have any family members that have experienced this or you’ve been wondering about this, you’ve noticed odd behavior about all of it. Just share it in the comments below this video and uh you know Kim can maybe get in touch. You can get in touch with Kim but we can keep this conversation going so that we can try to affect some change here.

Kim Thank you so much for sharing your story. Thank you so much for your tireless work in all of this the selfless work to get this message out there and hopefully save lives. Thank you so much for having me.

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