Prozac Prescribed "Without a Thought"
“I cannot help wondering how much of his problem was enhanced or made worse by this drug.”
“I cannot help wondering how much of his problem was enhanced or made worse by this drug.”
“It shocked me that she would prescribe a medication with such severe withdrawal symptoms to be taken every two weeks on rotation.”
“Now that I know all these weird thoughts aren’t me…just the Paxil.”
Excerpts from the Denver Rocky Mountain News:
* When the local social services workers contacted her with information
about Candace, she was told the girl had a “strong temperment,” that she was
prone to uncontrollable outbursts. Candace had been through six foster homes
by the time she was five, and her birth family had neglected her, Newmaker
was told.
Elizabeth Bush told the ABC News program “20/20” that the shooting has played
over repeatedly in her mind since March 7, the day she shot Kim Marchese at
the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann Junior-Senior High School.
At Harvard, a psychiatrist is studying whether the hallucinogenic cactus
peyote creates any long-term memory or attention problems in the American
Indians who take the drug as part of religious rituals.
“He was not a depressed man, nor would he ever have taken his own life.”
“I have discovered many, many horrifying things about these drugs.”
“The doctors said that I needed the drugs to pull through. I finally said, ‘No more drugs!'”