TOP SECRET papers which appear to link the popular anti-depressant drug Prozac to suicide and violence have been passed to top health chiefs in America.
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) received the documents concerning the drug fluoxetine (Prozac) from an anonymous source and has now turned them over to the US Food and Drug Administration.
The papers had disappeared during a lawsuit filed on behalf of victims of a workplace shooting carried out by Joseph Wesbecker in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1989.
Wesbecker, who had a long history of depression and had been put on Prozac a month before the shootings, killed eight people and injured 12 others before killing himself.
Settlement
In 1994 some of the relatives of the victims brought a civil suit against Eli Lilly, the makers of Prozac, alleging that the company had known about the side-effects of the drug for years.
Although the company won the case it was later forced to admit it had made a secret settlement during the trial.
The FDA has recently issued a warning that anti-depressants can cause stimulatory side-effects such as agitation, panic attacks and aggression. Dr Richard Kapit, the FDA clinical reviewer who approved Prozac, told the BMJ he was not given the Lilly data.
"These data are very important. If this report was done by Lilly, it was their responsibility to report it to us and to publish it," he said.
The FDA has agreed to review the documents passed on by the BMJ.
In a statement to the BMJ, Lilly said: "The safety of Prozac is well studied and well documented."
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How much evidence will it take to stop these companies from targeting the vulnerable people. The latest review of SSRIs is already proving to be a great big waste of time. As was expected no one will stand up to these influential drug dealers. MONEY TALKS....
I have been on fluoxetine (Prozac) since September 2004 and I have had no adverse side effects unless you count being extremely happy as a side effect!
Note the drug can take a while to give the desired reaction and in my case it took 4 weeks to kick in.
Every person will have different experiences with prescribed medication of this type but mine have certainly been positive and welcome.
I took prozac after a period of reactive depression after being sexually asssaulted.
I felt great immediately and thought that prozac was wonderful. After about 2 weeks I started to have fantasies about killing myself, then powerful compulsions to hurt / kill myself.
I stopped taking prozac against the advice of my GP. I still suffered from thoughts of hurting myself for months afterwards, although less powerfully than when I was on prozac. These have now stopped.
My GP suggested that the reason people have these compulsions is because depressed people feel suicidal but, due to depression, lack the energy to act on their impulses.
My GP referred me to a psychiatrist who was similarly dismissive the drug's side effects.
I have no doubt that it was the prozac that brought about these terrifying thoughts and compulsions I experienced.
I would welcome further research into the side effects of prozac and similar drugs as well as greater caution regarding prescribing it.
I have said for years that this information exists somewhere and would surface sooner or later. No one could NOT see this reaction in patients taking these SSRI antidepressants.
Medical research on serotonin for the past five decades supports the fact that when serotonin reuptake is inhibited it produces impulsive murder or suicide, mania, psychosis, severe loss of memory, tension and anxiety that appear from nowhere, cravings for alcohol and other drugs, violent crime, road rage, argumentative and impulsive behavior, etc. All this does is back up all of this existing research.
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Detailed documentation of the correlation between Prozac and mass shootings --
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Worth reading as a follow up to this story.
I was prescribed a older version of of the serotonin re-uptake inhibitor antidepresant called Amitriptyline, (Elavil) in 2002 by my urologist , not for depression or any mental purpuse but for the relief of servere pain. I was not told it was a antidepressant and was not told of any dangers for psychotic episodes. At first I started to have sleeping difficulties, then very bad nitemares, then strange emotions of overwhelming sadness about things that happend years ago. then I started to have much increased pain difficult urination and some thing very strange I would get electric shocks that snapped threw my body like I grabbed a live 115 volt power cable. then it got real bad I had servere dangerous thoughts of hatred anger rage and emotions that actually hurt. It felt painful and I could not shut it off. I then when into a state of mind called mania and I tryed to kill my self and a loved one. I spent two long painful years in prison for this because the judge and even my own attorney did not beleive it to be possible for a drug to do this. while I was in prison I started to research all I could on what happened to me and I was shocked to find out that this is common. and the drug companys have hide this for years. and have also written watered down words in their warnings using terms like can cause confusion or anxiaty let me tell you this was not anxiaty or confusion it was nothing other than a total psychotic event. I wanted to kill every thing I saw and had know control over the thoughts and extreme emotions. these antidepresants are dangerous and anyone that speaks in faver of them should be held accountable for the murders and suicides they cause. I am now working and investigating every shooting I find and every time I find one that is horrible the shooter is on a antidepresant drug. read Dr. Tracys book on Prozac Panacia or Panadora you will be amazed at the cover up and pay offs.