April 20, 2024

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Antidepressant Use Doubles in UK in Past Decade, Even Greater Increase Last Year

Ann Blake-Tracy010 mins

Seroxat [Paxil] antidepressant pills.
Photograph: Jack Sullivan/Alamy
The number of antidepressants prescribed by the NHS
has almost doubled in the last decade, and rose sharply last year as the
recession bit, figures reveal.

The health service issued 39.1m prescriptions for drugs to tackle depression in England in 2009, compared
with 20.1m in 1999 – a 95% jump. Doctors handed out 3.18m more prescriptions
last year than in 2008, almost twice the annual rise seen in preceding years,
according to previously unpublished statistics released by the NHS’s Business
Services Authority.

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SSRI Birth Defects: Glaxo must pay $2.5M in Paxil case

Ann Blake-Tracy05 mins

GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. must pay $2.5 million to settle a
claim that its Paxil antidepressant caused severe heart defects in a
3-year-old Bensalem boy, a Philadelphia common pleas jury ruled
today.

The verdict is the first in 600 cases alleging that
London-based Glaxo knew Paxil caused birth defects and hid those risks to
boost profits.

The drug, approved for U.S. use in 1992, generated about $942
million in sales last year, 2.1 percent of Glaxo’s total
revenue.

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PAXIL: Road Rage Death: Woman Drives on Wrong Side of Freeway: No Alcoh…

Ann Blake-Tracy06 mins

Note from Ann Blake-Tracy: Why are police still looking for the reason why she was driving the wrong way on the freeway when they already know she was on Paxil? A large number of these cases of driving the wrong way on the freeway involve these antidepressants. __________________________________________________________ Paragraph one reads: "A Monroeville woman who…

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