Prozac
Prozac Prescribed "Without a Thought"
“I cannot help wondering how much of his problem was enhanced or made worse by this drug.”
5/01/2001 – World Health Organization – SSRI Addiction
Yesterday, in several major newspapers Lilly placed full page ads offering a
coupon for a month of free Prozac. Do you think they warned the consumer in
those ads that these free pills were addictive? Because so few doctors are
aware of this withdrawal and do not know how to withdraw patients from SSRIs,
after the month on the “free” pills the patient would have to continue to
purchase the drug until they could find my tape on how to get off Prozac
safely.
4/19/2001 – April Edition of ICFDA now Online
Twenty-three new articles from the past month have just been
selected from newspapers across the country and posted our
ICFDA site at https://www.drugawareness.org.
Included among them are two articles that offer proof there are
safer ways to treat depression then by taking pills. One is from
Newsweek entitled “Nourishing Your Brain,” which discusses
studies showing that fats in fish and walnuts can ward off
depression. Another from Reuters showing how aerobic
exercise effectively treats depression.
4/15/2001 – Prozac critic sees U of T job revoked
A world-renowned scientist saw a job offer at the University of Toronto
evaporate after warning that the popular antidepressant Prozac may trigger
suicide in some patients.
The drug’s manufacturer, Eli Lilly, is an important private donor to a
mental-health research institute affiliated with the university.
3/30/2001 – LSD to Prozac and back to LSD?!
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.
A Nurse Speaks out about Prozac, Effexor and Zyban
“I have discovered many, many horrifying things about these drugs.”
Hope through alternatives even after long-term use of Prozac
“The doctors said that I needed the drugs to pull through. I finally said, ‘No more drugs!'”
Prozac Killed My Son
“I want to join others who are trying to remove Prozac from the hands of doctors who hand these pills out like ‘candy to kids’.”