7/15/2000 – FDA Warning Comes 40 Years Too Late on Mellaril

We are grateful to our e-group member, Martin Hirschfeld, and also to Vera Hassner Sharav, President, CIRCARE: Citizens for Responsible Care & Research, for forwarding this information to us. AFTER 40 YEARS OF USE – the FDA has put new restrictions on the use of the antipsychotic, Mellaril. Obviously for many patients this strong warning…

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He Never Said Good-Bye

If you have or know of teens or pre-teens struggling with depression or hopelessness, or if you know someone on anti-depressants, I hope this account will help you. I believe that if I had read a story like the one you will now read, it might very well have saved our son. My wife would still have her little boy. My daughter would still have her little brother. And I would still have my best companion and friend in the whole wide world.

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Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Schiavo vs. Glaxo Smithkline Corporation

Mass. group sues Paxil drugmaker By Ellen Barry Globe Staff A group of Massachusetts plaintiffs filed a class-action suit earlier this month against the maker of the blockbuster antidepressant Paxil, alleging that withdrawal from the drug brought on such ill effects as nausea, sweating, agitation, tremors, insomnia, dizziness, and the sensation of electric ”zaps” in…

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DEPRESSION MED: WOMAN – JAIL WARNING AFTER THREATING NEIGHBORS W/KNIFE: UK

An eight-year-old girl pleaded for her mum to stop brandishing a knife at her neighbours after the womanthreatened to stab them.

Joanne Ireson wielded the kitchen knife outside her home in Cardigan Road, East Reading, at about 8pm on Tuesday, June 16.

The fracas took place after Ireson’s daughter snuck off to play outside on her own and she shouted at her to come back.

But Ireson’s concerned neighbours got “the wrong end of the stick” and called police – causing her to threaten them with the blade.

At Reading Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, August 25, Ireson – of previously good character – admitted one count of possessing the eight-inch knife in a public place and one of using violence and/or threatening behaviour towards neighbour Daniel Thiemert.

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ANTIDEPRESSANT-INDUCED NIGHTMARE: JESSE JACKSON JR GIVEN 2 1/2 YEARS

  JESSE JACKSON JR GIVEN 2 1/2 YEARS FOR ACTING OUT HIS ANTIDEPRESSANT-INDUCED NIGHTMARE Jesse Jackson Jr. sentenced to 2 1/2 years for his antidepressant-induced nightmare. This is yet another travesty of justice as so many others have been that are going on in our court systems where people are being prosecuted for their medication-induced…

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1991 FDA Antidepressant Hearing: Mother Kills Two Sons & Attempts Suicide – Tucker Moneymaker

On April 5, 1991, after only 21 days on Prozac Tucker Moneymaker’s wife Sandra, 36, shot and killed their two sons, David Lee, 8, and William, 16, while they slept before shooting herself twice in the abdomen in a suicide attempt. The bottle of Prozac was found in the room with them. Tucker had left…

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