Posts Tagged ‘ paxil ’

Antidepressant Suicide Reports Continue to Mount

May 28th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

This week, journalist Philip Dawdy reported on the popular website Furious Seasons that Wyeth’s Effexor me-too drug Pristiq, FDA approved in early 2008, had already generated 1,272 adverse event reports in the FDA’s MedWatch system through the end of 2008, and wrote with live links to the reports:

“It’s discouraging that 17 of those reports involve completed suicides through the end of 2008. There are also 48 reports of suicidal ideation through the end of 2008.”

“That’s a lot in such a short period of time, especially considering that this drug isn’t exactly widely used,” Dawdy points out.

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Tags: Effexor, paxil, Pristiq, Prozac, SSRIs, Zoloft
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Lawsuits Needed Against Prescribing Quacks

April 24th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

On April 21, 2009, the Miami Herald reported that a 7-year-old boy in Florida, Gabriel Myers, had committed suicide by hanging himself with a detachable shower head in a bathroom of the foster care home he was placed in three weeks earlier.

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Tags: ADHD, atypical antipsychotic, bipolar, Eli Lilly, Glaxo, J&J, paxil, Risperdal, Seroquel, SSRI, suicide, Symbyax, Zyprexa
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Rally in Denver for Ten Year Anniversary of Columbine

April 14th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

Ten years ago this month the violence and suicide caused by SSRI antidepressants gained international recognition in headlines all over the world when it became known that one of the teen shooters at the Columbine massacre, Eric Harris, had taken Zoloft in the past and was on Luvox at the time of the murder-suicide spree.

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Tags: Columbine, GlaxoSmithKline, Luvox, paxil, Prozac, suicide, Zoloft
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Pregnant? Don’t Take Paxil

March 12th, 2009. By janem

It is incomprehensible that Paxil is still on the market, almost 18 months after the FDA issued its warning about “early results of new studies for Paxil (paroxetine) suggesting that the drug increases the risk for birth defects, particularly heart defects, when women take it during the first three months of pregnancy.”

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Tags: antidepressant paxil, heart defects, paxil, paxil and pregnancy
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