International Coalition for Drug Awareness
Educating about the dangers of Antidepressant Medications
Once again we thank Vera Hassner Sharav, President, CIRCARE: Citizens for Responsible Care & Research, a Human Rights organization, for passing on this interesting commentary on Prozac’s name being changed to Sarafem for PMS. The dangers of interaction leading to serotonin syndrome – a life threatening complication of serotonergic medications – is most obvious in…
July 18, 2000 Once Again, Prozac Takes Center Stage, in Furor By ERICA GOODE —————————————————————————— — Naum Kazhdan/ The New York Times At least two recently published books say that Prozac and related antidepressants are often indiscriminately prescribed and pose the risk of serious side effects, but critics of those views call them alarmist and…
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I regain my desire to write and paint when I finally get off Prozac?”
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I regain my desire to write and paint when I finally get off Prozac?”
“I credit (finding the ICFDA web site) with saving my life.”
“I read about 5-htp and under the recommendation of a friend.”
This article which ran in the Boston Globe last Sunday does a good job of demonstrating the awkward position the makers of New Prozac are in- defending the new Prozac without offending its new partner, Eli Lilly. http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/163/nation/Science_money_ drive_a_makeover+.shtml PROZAC – New directions Science, money drive a makeover By Mitchell Zuckoff, Globe Staff, 6/11/2000 This…
http://search.boston.com/globe.vts A BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL The Prozac Question Eli Lilly, manufacturer of the highly successful antidepressant drug Prozac, wants to have it both ways. While it has always insisted that the drug does not cause even a tiny percentage of its users to contemplate suicide, it also wants to sell an updated version of Prozac…
June 8, 2000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Downey 12100 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 950 Los Angeles, CA 90025 Contact: Robin McCall bhagd@… Day: (800) 827-0087 or (310) 207-3233 Night: (818) 558-5964 www.bhagd.com/media/prozacinformation.html PROZAC MAKER, ELI LILLY AND COMPANY, COMMITTED FRAUD ON HAWAII COURT BY CONCEALING CRUCIAL EVIDENCE AT TRIAL, FAMILY IN NEWLY…
This appears today on the ABC News website at http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/ssri000524.html Falling Off Prozac Doctors and Patients Unaware of Withdrawal Side Effects By Robin Eisner N E W Y O R K, May 24 — Tara Calhoun wanted to kill herself. The then-48-year-old mother of two from Norman, Okla., had forgotten to take her small dose…