Suicide
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"Meanwhile, Dr. Healy Hasn't shied away from linking Prozac, Paxil and the other SSRI's to suicide. He figures at least 250,000 people have attempted suicide worldwide because of Prozac alone and that at least 25,000 have succeeded. " [2002] Prozac, Suicide and Dr. Healy By Rick Giombetti
Articles, media
[2007]
Reported suicides - more than 80 percent got psychiatric drugs, well over
50 percent got antidepressants This
information has been concealed by senior (psychiatric) officials at
the National Board of Health and Welfare. It was contrary to the best
interests of Big Pharma and biological psychiatrists. It blew the
myths of antidepressants and neuroleptics as suicide
protecting drugs to pieces. It would also have
hurt the career of many medical journalists to take up this
subject; journalists who for years have made their living by writing
marketing articles about new antidepressant drugs. So nothing has been
written about this in major media in Sweden.
[2005] Alarming deaths of Tamiflu patients - FDA to investigate The U.S. Food and Drug Administration are investigating the deaths of 12 children in Japan who took Roche's flu-fighting drug Tamiflu. The FDA said the 12 deaths it was reviewing included one suicide, four cases of sudden death and four cases of cardiac arrest. There also were single cases of pneumonia, asphyxiation and acute pancreatitis......It seems the most alarming psychiatric events included two cases in which a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old jumped out of the second-floor windows of their homes after receiving two doses of Tamiflu.
[2007] Trail Of Paxil Suicides Leads To GlaxoSmithKline By Evelyn Pringle
[Media May 2006] Eli Lilly's Strattera - 130 reports of suicidality in one month
[October 29, 2005] RITALIN - THE COVER-UP OF SUICIDES
[ 7 Aug 2004] Secret US report surfaces on antidepressants in children
[Media 29 June] Drug Update (Prozac)
[2004] 16-Year Old’s Suicide on Zoloft
[2003] Sudden Withdrawal on
Effexor
“I have attempted suicide 3 times now, maybe the fourth will be the charm
because this life is not life, it is a tortuous hell, that leaves little to live
for.”
[2003] The Tragic Death of my Friend of 25 Years Due to Prozac
[2003] Prozac and how it made me try to commit suicide
[2003] Suicide Attempts on Aropax
12-Year Old Attempts Suicide on Luvox
[Media UK, Dec 1996] HRT users urged to tell of suicidal tendencies
[Media] Suicides linked with acne drug (roaccutane)
[Media] Father fights acne drug firm after’
son’s suicide (Roaccutane)
Accutane - Is this Acne Drug Treatment Linked to
Depression and Suicide? (Congressional committee dec 2000)
[Media UK, 1997] ‘Prozac made our father kill our mother then himself’
Quotes
"Meanwhile, Dr. Healy Hasn't shied away from linking Prozac, Paxil and the other SSRI's to suicide. He figures at least 250,000 people have attempted suicide worldwide because of Prozac alone and that at least 25,000 have succeeded. " [2002] Prozac, Suicide and Dr. Healy By Rick Giombetti
Between 1993 and 2002, 118 people in England and Wales died while taking Venlafaxine, mainly from suicide and accidental overdose. [Media Nov 5, 2004 Venlaflaxine] Girl died after taking one pill for depression