NOTE FROM Ann Blake-Tracy
(www.drugawareness.org):
warns that this antidepressant does produce “alcohol cravings” and we know how
common it is for mania to be induced by SSRIs, with one type of mania being
“Dipsomania” – an overwhelming compulsion to drink alcohol” – this
information needs to be spread far and wide ASAP! Patients are NOT warned
of this when they are given this drug! Few are even given the package insert
which is a “failure to warn” on the part of both the drug maker and the
pharmacist. How many DUIs are being caused by the SSRI antidepressants? We know
that DUIs in middle aged women, the main users of SSRIs, have DOUBLED over
a recent 10 year period. Is there a connection? As a society we need to know.
Where is MADD on this issue?
anti-depressant drug, and had a few drinks after playing golf. He was arrested
and charged with DUI after weaving through traffic. He was “obviously
impaired” according to his lawyer. ‘The worst I’d ever seen in 25 years’.”
“An expert testified that Paxil, taken with alcohol, has an “additive
effect” in some people. The Defendant was never told about this. The
Court acquitted the Defendant because to self-administer an intoxicant, one must
be aware that they are consuming an intoxicant.
http://virginiadui.poweradvocates.com/dui_defenses.html
4.
Involuntary Intoxication . Commonwealth v. Moore, February, 2003 (Fairfax
Co. GDC).
Defendant was on Paxil, an anti-depressant drug, and had a few
drinks after playing golf. He was arrested and charged with DUI after
weaving through traffic. He was “obviously impaired” according to his
lawyer. “The worst I’d ever seen in 25 years.”
An expert testified
that Paxil, taken with alcohol, has an “additive effect” in some people.
The Defendant was never told about this. The Court acquitted the Defendant
because to self-administer an intoxicant, one must be aware that they are
consuming an intoxicant.
