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FDA Medwatch

If you have suffered adverse reactions to Effexor, Lexapro/Celexa, Paxil or Straterra, you should report them to the FDA. Reports can be made through the FDA’s MedWatch system at http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/report/consumer/consumer.htm

Paxil:

Paxil information re suicide
Submit your case (We are only accepting Paxil suicide, suicide attempt cases and Paxil birth defect cases)

Effexor:

Submit your case (We are only accepting Effexor suicides and suicide attempt cases involving minors)

News
FDA Updates Its Review of Antidepressant Drugs in Children

FDA Orders Warning About Suicide Risk

Zoloft Health Alert

Pfizer Conceals Evidence and Misleads Doctors and Patients About Safety and Effectiveness of Zoloft -- Private Attorney General Steps in Because FDA Has Failed California Consumers

Baum Hedlund appointed to Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for Paxil Products Liability Litigation

FDA Warnings Update; FDA statements in media misleading; Congressional Investigations Underway re FDA’s Failure to Protect Public Health

FDA Finally Concedes Antidepressant Suicide Risk After 13-year Fight for Warning

Mother Seeks Removal of FDA Officials Due to Conflicts of Interest in SSRI Antidepressant Suicide Review

Karen Barth Menzies testifies about risk of suicide in children taking antidepressants at FDA's Advisory Committee Meeting

In Response to British Regulators' Ban on SSRIs For Children

Paxil Victims React to FDA's Announcement re Suicide Risk in Children

Paxil Banned for Children Under 18 in UK due to Increased Risk of Suicide

June 19, 2003
Paxil Victims React to FDA's Announcement re Suicide Risk in Children

June 10, 2003
Paxil Banned for Children Under 18 in UK due to Increased Risk of Suicide

UK refuses to allow "Direct to Consumer" advertising. According to a spokeperson in the European Parliament: "If we open the door to direct advertising it is a slippery slope down the American road where pink pills on television advertisements offer a miracle solution to everything from baldness to chronic fatigue. Medicines are like no other product. The aim must not be to maximise sales but to ensure that the product is used appropriately."

January 8, 2003
Antidepressant safety reviewed in the UK. BBC Report

March 21, 2003
Coroner asks that Paxil be withdrawn

July 9, 2001
Lawyer's Weekly: Paxil Maker Held Liable in Murder/Suicide
George W. Murgatroyd III

May 25, 2001
Press Release
Australian Supreme Court Justice Rules Zoloft Caused Man to Murder his Wife

February 1, 2001
FDA Enforcement Manual: FD&C Act does not preempt state failure-to-warn claims against drug manufacturers, court rules (re Motus vs. Pfizer, Zoloft case)
George W. Murgatroyd III

September 7, 2000
Mealey's Emerging Drugs & Devices Report: Prozac Plaintiffs Cite Alleged Fraud On Court In Appeal To 9th Circuit
Karen Barth Menzies

February 1, 2000
Pharmaceutical Litigation Reporter and Andrews Publications: Lawsuit Blamed Pfizer for Zoloft-Related Death
George Murgatroyd

Links

Antidepressant Adverse Reactions

International Coalition for Drug Awareness

Alternative Mental Health Online

Social Audit
http://www.socialaudit.org.uk

Thomas J. Moore's Web Site, Author "Prescription for Disaster"
http://thomasjmoore.com/

Arianna Huffington's syndicated column re Prozac
Prozac: Unsafe At Any Price

WoodyMatters.com
Using Woody's life and death to save others

Recommended Reading

"Biting the Magic Bullet: A Look at the SSRI Litigation", by Karen Barth Menzies

"The Fox in the Chicken Coop" FDA's Recent Intervention in Pharmaceutical Litigation, by Karen Barth Menzies

"The Antidepressant Solution" by Dr. Joseph Glenmullen

"Prozac Backlash" by Dr. Joseph Glenmullen

"The Anti-depressant Era" by Dr. David Healy

"Prescription for Disaster, The Hidden Dangers in Your Medicine Cabinet" by Thomas J. Moore

"Beyond Prozac, Healing Mental Suffering Without Drugs" by Dr. Terry Lynch

“Your Drug May be Your Problem,How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications” by Breggin and Cohen

“Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs” by Stephen M. Fried

“From Placebo to Panacea: Putting Psychiatric Drugs to the Test” by Seymour Fisher

“The Anti-Depressant Fact Book, What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, Luvox and the Other Newly Approved Psychiatric Drugs” by Dr. Peter R. Breggin

"The Undiscovered Mind, How the Brain Defies Explanation” by Jonathan Horgan

“The Power to Harm” by John Cornwell

“Making us Crazy: Dsm: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders" by Herb Kutchins, Stuart A. Kirk (Contributor)

“Blaming the Brain: The Truth about drugs and mental health” by Elliot Valenstein

“A Dose of Sanity: Mind, Medicine, and Misdiagnosis”

Boston Globe:June 8, 2000 - Prozac data was kept from trial, suit says;
Prozac revisited - As drug gets remade, concerns about suicides surface

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Submit Your Case

Report to the FDA
Antidepressant PPHN
Antidepressant congenital heart defects
Paxil
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Prozac
Effexor
News
Disclaimer
Links
Recommended Reading

FDA Medwatch

If you have suffered adverse reactions to Effexor, Lexapro/Celexa, Paxil or Straterra, you should report them to the FDA. Reports can be made through the FDA’s MedWatch system at http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/report/consumer/consumer.htm

Paxil:

Paxil information re suicide
Submit your case (We are only accepting Paxil suicide, suicide attempt cases and Paxil birth defect cases)

Effexor:

Submit your case (We are only accepting Effexor suicides and suicide attempt cases involving minors)

News

FDA Updates Its Review of Antidepressant Drugs in Children

FDA Orders Warning About Suicide Risk

Zoloft Health Alert

Pfizer Conceals Evidence and Misleads Doctors and Patients About Safety and Effectiveness of Zoloft -- Private Attorney General Steps in Because FDA Has Failed California Consumers

Baum Hedlund appointed to Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for Paxil Products Liability Litigation

FDA Warnings Update; FDA statements in media misleading; Congressional Investigations Underway re FDA’s Failure to Protect Public Health

FDA Finally Concedes Antidepressant Suicide Risk After 13-year Fight for Warning

Mother Seeks Removal of FDA Officials Due to Conflicts of Interest in SSRI Antidepressant Suicide Review

Karen Barth Menzies testifies about risk of suicide in children taking antidepressants at FDA's Advisory Committee Meeting

In Response to British Regulators' Ban on SSRIs For Children

Paxil Victims React to FDA's Announcement re Suicide Risk in Children

Paxil Banned for Children Under 18 in UK due to Increased Risk of Suicide

June 19, 2003
Paxil Victims React to FDA's Announcement re Suicide Risk in Children

June 10, 2003
Paxil Banned for Children Under 18 in UK due to Increased Risk of Suicide

July 9, 2001
Lawyer's Weekly: Paxil Maker Held Liable in Murder/Suicide
George W. Murgatroyd III

May 25, 2001
Press Release
Australian Supreme Court Justice Rules Zoloft Caused Man to Murder his Wife

February 1, 2001
FDA Enforcement Manual: FD&C Act does not preempt state failure-to-warn claims against drug manufacturers, court rules (re Motus vs. Pfizer, Zoloft case)
George W. Murgatroyd III

September 7, 2000
Mealey's Emerging Drugs & Devices Report: Prozac Plaintiffs Cite Alleged Fraud On Court In Appeal To 9th Circuit
Karen Barth Menzies

February 1, 2000
Pharmaceutical Litigation Reporter and Andrews Publications: Lawsuit Blamed Pfizer for Zoloft-Related Death
George Murgatroyd

Links

Recommended Reading

FDA Medwatch

If you have suffered adverse reactions to Effexor, Lexapro/Celexa, Paxil or Straterra, you should report them to the FDA. Reports can be made through the FDA’s MedWatch system at http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/report/consumer/consumer.htm

Paxil:

Paxil information re suicide Submit your case (We are only accepting Paxil suicide, suicide attempt cases and Paxil birth defect cases)

Effexor:

Submit your case (We are only accepting Effexor suicides and suicide attempt cases involving minors)

News

Pfizer Conceals Evidence and Misleads Doctors and Patients About Safety and Effectiveness of Zoloft -- Private Attorney General Steps in Because FDA Has Failed California Consumers

Baum Hedlund appointed to Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for Paxil Products Liability Litigation

FDA Warnings Update; FDA statements in media misleading; Congressional Investigations Underway re FDA’s Failure to Protect Public Health

June 19, 2003 Paxil Victims React to FDA's Announcement re Suicide Risk in Children

June 10, 2003 Paxil Banned for Children Under 18 in UK due to Increased Risk of Suicide

July 9, 2001 Lawyer's Weekly: Paxil Maker Held Liable in Murder/Suicide George W. Murgatroyd III

May 25, 2001 Press Release Australian Supreme Court Justice Rules Zoloft Caused Man to Murder his Wife

February 1, 2001 FDA Enforcement Manual: FD&C Act does not preempt state failure-to-warn claims against drug manufacturers, court rules (re Motus vs. Pfizer, Zoloft case) George W. Murgatroyd III

September 7, 2000 Mealey's Emerging Drugs & Devices Report: Prozac Plaintiffs Cite Alleged Fraud On Court In Appeal To 9th Circuit Karen Barth Menzies

February 1, 2000 Pharmaceutical Litigation Reporter and Andrews Publications: Lawsuit Blamed Pfizer for Zoloft-Related Death George Murgatroyd

Links

Recommended Reading

Paxil information re suicide
Submit your case (We are only accepting Paxil suicide, suicide attempt cases and Paxil birth defect cases)

June 19, 2003
Paxil Victims React to FDA's Announcement re Suicide Risk in Children

June 10, 2003
Paxil Banned for Children Under 18 in UK due to Increased Risk of Suicide

July 9, 2001
Lawyer's Weekly: Paxil Maker Held Liable in Murder/Suicide
George W. Murgatroyd III

May 25, 2001
Press Release
Australian Supreme Court Justice Rules Zoloft Caused Man to Murder his Wife

February 1, 2001
FDA Enforcement Manual: FD&C Act does not preempt state failure-to-warn claims against drug manufacturers, court rules (re Motus vs. Pfizer, Zoloft case)
George W. Murgatroyd III

September 7, 2000
Mealey's Emerging Drugs & Devices Report: Prozac Plaintiffs Cite Alleged Fraud On Court In Appeal To 9th Circuit
Karen Barth Menzies

February 1, 2000
Pharmaceutical Litigation Reporter and Andrews Publications: Lawsuit Blamed Pfizer for Zoloft-Related Death
George Murgatroyd