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Jason Bourque, who is currently serving time in Smith County Jail, recently told the news source from prison that he was in a "daze" when he started a majority of the church fires. He added that the mixing of the anti-smoking drug Chantix with Prozac, a depression drug, put him in a dream-like state."At first I wasn't sure whether any of it had really happened or if it had been a dream because I had had several dreams where similar things had happened," Bourque told the news source.
In Bourque's psychiatric evaluation, which was reportedly obtained by the news source, Dr. Gary Meyers said that Chantix has been given a high safety warning by the US Food and Drug Administration, due to potential adverse side effects.
According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, Chantix use can potentially lead to behavioral changes and suicidal thoughts.
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Ann Blake-Tracy
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And to see the database of cases Rosie mentioned above which she and I spent years putting together you must now go to ssristories.NET as it has been moved.
Rosie Cee
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The Physicians Desk Reference states that SSRI antidepressants and all antidepressants can cause mania, psychosis, abnormal thinking, paranoia, hostility, agitation, etc. These side effects can also appear during withdrawal. Also, these adverse reactions are not listed as Rare but are listed as either Frequent or Infrequent.
Go to SSRIstories.com where there are over 4,300 cases, with the full media article available, involving bizarre murders, suicides, school shootings/incidents [58 of these] and murder-suicides - all of which involve SSRI antidepressants like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, etc, . The media article usually tells which SSRI antidepressant the perpetrator was taking or had been using but sometimes the media article just says "antidepressant" or "medication for depression".
On December 15, 2010, PLoS Medicine released a study which showed that, in regard to prescription medications and violence, the FDA had received the most reports of violence from the SSRI & SNRI antidepressants (except for Chantix, the smoking cessation drug.) The evidence of an association with violence was weaker and mixed for antipsychotic drugs and absent for all but one of the mood stabilizers. Yet, the antipsychotics and mood stabilizers, given for the most serious mental illnesses, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, would be the most likely culprit involved in violence but, instead, it was the antidepressants which had the most reports of violence. They were given to patients that traditionally were the least likely to commit violence, the depressed and the anxious.