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7/27/2000 – TV Interview on 8/4/2000
Jurgen and Brenda Viktor will be on the Queen Latifah Show on August 4, 2000. They will be interviewed about their son Jared’s tragic experience on Paxil, an account of which, written by his mother and posted on the www.drugawareness.org site, follows below. You will need to check your local TV guide to find times…
Awake for 800 Hours Straight and Unable to Function after just 25mg of Paxil
“Did I undergo a ‘chemical lobotomy?'”
7/25/2000 – Clinical trial revenue streams lead to more scandals
This article might explain why your doctor’s interest has shifted away from you as a patient. He may be looking at you with $$$$ signs stamped all over you as he envision another guenia pig for yet another clinical trial funded by a large drug company. Most of you are aware, or certainly should be…
7/25/2000 – Ewing’s Letter to the New York Times
Mr. Rick Ewing, a trial attorney for the firm of Vickery and Waldner, responds to the purported balance of opinions expressed in the New York Times article on Prozac and violence (Article #108 on our eGroups list). It is a wonderful analysis, and I hope you’ll read it. Mark ——- Ms. Goode’s article is a…
7/24/2000 – Prozac [Sarafem] and PMS – What’s in a name?
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…
7/23/2000 – FDA officer advised diet-drug clinic about Fen-Phen
In case any of you missed this last fall when it broke in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Wall Street Journal, here it is again so you have it for reference. Notice that this FDA official is also the doctor who is credited with starting the Fen-Phen craze with a medical study he published suggesting…
9/22/2000 – Exercise better than Zoloft.
Seems like exercise works better than SSRI’s! What a surprise. After 16 weeks, patients who exercised showed statistically significant and comparable improvement relative to those who took Zoloft, or those who took the Zoloft and exercised. Be sure to look at the wide disparity in the percentage on drugs who relapse into depression after eight…
7/18/2000 – NY Times – Once Again, Prozac Takes Center Stage, in Furor
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…
7/18/2000 – Tonight San Francisco News
Fox news on KTVU, Chan. 2 out of San Francisco will air a special tonight at 10:00 PM Pacific Time and again tomorrow night at the same time on the adverse reactions and long-term reactions to SSRI antidepressants. The reporters flew to Salt Lake City two weeks ago to interview me (Ann Blake-Tracy), along with…