Lundbeck Lunacy in Ireland

sligo | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Saturday May 15, 2004 16:22 by Vincent

Lundbeck Ireland is a pharmaceutical company which claims to be “focused on finding new and effective therapies for psychiatric and neurological disorders". Instead psychiatric drugs have for many proved to be mind disabling and brain-damaging drugs which do not help people who suffer from severe mental distress.

Lundbeck is a pharmaceutical company which claims to be “focused on finding new and effective therapies for psychiatric and neurological disorders”. It has operated in Ireland for 24 years. In 1995 Lundbeck announced the formation of an Irish Subsidiary, Lundbeck Ireland.

Lundbeck says it has a clear mission: “To improve the quality of life for people suffering from psychiatric & neurological disorders.” This is complete rubbish.

So-called anti-psychotics or neuroleptic drugs have a disabling effect, mentally and emotionally, on a person and essentially act as chemical straitjackets. The manufacturers of these drugs present a hypothesis that they help to redress a bio-chemical imbalance in the brain which the ‘patient’ is alleged to suffer from and which is believed to be related to the alleged mental illness. It has now been established that these drugs present a high risk of causing neurological disorders such as tardive dyskinesia (a disfiguring and distressing condition in which the person makes involuntary movements of the facial muscles and mouth) and are in fact brain –damaging. Psychiatrists and neurologists have themselves admitted the risks involved.


Lundbeck states that depression is:

“a psychiatric disease in which Lundbeck has significant specialist expertise. Thousands of people suffer from depression without knowing that the disease can, in fact, be treated effectively.’

This rubbish again! There is no scientific evidence that points to depression being a disease related to a bio-chemical imbalance in the brain. Psychiatrists themselves will even admit when pressed that it is only a hypothesis .Any studies which would seem to suggest a biological cause are far from conclusive .It should not therefore be presented as a scientific fact. Instead we have overwhelming evidence that depression is caused by personal, societal and environmental factors. The seroxat scandal in recent years and the behind the scenes machinations involved in the approval and promotion of prozac should give people cause for serious concern. Many people, adults and children, have reported increased anxiety, agitation, violent or suicidal feelings as a result of taking these so- called anti-depressants. Lundbeck state that:

“As always, our overall purpose is to improve the quality of life for people with psychiatric and neurological disorders”.

This is completely insincere. The effect of psychiatric drugs is that the quality of life is seriously diminished in order to make profit for drug companies like Lundbeck. They are not friends to those who suffer severe mental distress.

“Our vision is clear: to become world leaders within our focus areas psychiatry and neurology”

Their vision is on the otherhand is increased profit through the promotion of the biological or ‘disease’ model in psychiatry to the general public. In relation to alleged disease of depression PR exercises by the company recently on Irish radio are designed to dupe people into believing that they should not be ashamed of having the ‘disease’ as they call it. People must resist this labelling of their problems as a disease which as I’ve stated is not based on sound scientific grounds. This biological or ‘disease’ model of psychiatry has shown itself to be a deeply harmful practice and people should not fall into the trap of believing psychiatric propaganda designed to make them take neurotoxic mind disabling and debilitating drugs.

Lundbeck (Ireland) Ltd
14 Deansgrange Business Park
Blackrock
Co Dublin
Ireland

www.lunbeck.ie