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Ann Blake Tracy, PhD
Executive Director, International Coalition for Drug Awareness (www.drugawareness.org & www.ssristories.com)
Author of Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare SHARE
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Dr. Ann Blake-Tracy, holds a Ph.D. in Health Sciences with the emphasis on Psychology, and serves as the executive director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness (www.drugawareness.org). She has specialized for 17 years in adverse reactions to serotonergic medications (antidepressants, atypical antipsychotics and pain killers).
Since 1992 she has testified as an expert in Prozac and other SSRI related court cases. Some of the more high profile cases she has worked on would be the murder/suicide of comedian Phil Hartman and his wife Brynn, the Columbine & Red Lake School shootings, Andrea Yates, Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel's death, etc.
Dr. Blake-Tracy will amaze you with documentation as to how often these drugs have lurked silently behind the scenes of major headlines worldwide!! Her first book on the issue was published in 1991. What scientists are just now learning about these drugs she spelled out in early writings.
She has participated in innumerable radio, television, newspaper and magazine interviews. There is no one with such extensive experience and expertise on the issues surrounding the SSRI antidepressants as Dr. Ann Blake-Tracy! Her latest book on this family of antidepressants: PROZAC: PANACEA OR PANDORA?-Our Serotonin Nightmare (2001) is the product of many years of intensive research. Dr. Tracy also has an hour and a half long audio tape/CD, "Help! I Can't Get Off My Antidepressant!," safe withdrawal methods from antidepressants and antipsychotics.
Dr. Tracy has appeared on or consulted for television presentations for FOX News, Court TV, the History Channel, CNN, PBS programs, Dateline and 20/20, the Geraldo Show, the Leeza Gibbons Show, the Montel Williams Show, and numerous local news programs. She has also appeared on many national radio shows over the past 20 years. Dr. Tracy has also appeared in two major film documentaries released the end of 2005, The Drugging of Our Children, and Prescription Suicide.