1988 - Reports of unusual, severe reactions with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant drugs (SSRIs) emerged soon after the first SSRI, Prozac, was introduced in 1988. One of my own patients, a woman with a mild depressive disorder and no history of major psychiatric symptoms, became psychotic after just three days on Prozac. Another woman, a highly successful attorney, developed such severe panic attacks that she couldn't work. Such cases were reported so frequently that ... COP,soldier,criminal...forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=26915.40
1987 - Prozac was launched in 1987, but it is merely the latest in a 40-year history of developments in antidepressants; it has a lower incidence of side-effects than earlier drugs, though it may also be less effective. Prozac has been skilfully marketed as a 'selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor' (SSRI), though the explanation of the effects of psychoactive drugs in terms of their effects on neurotransmitters has tended to follow their more or less serendipitous discovery and pragmatic ... From Body politicswww.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006D919.htm
In 1988, the first member of a new drug family arrived on the United States pharmaceutical market with rock star pizzazz and excitement. Fluoxetine, trademarked as Prozac®, was featured on the cover of Newsweek as a breakthrough drug and discussed with passion on radio and television, often by grateful users and sometimes by those concerned over its widespread use for a growing number of conditions. Today, Prozac remains the most widely prescribed antidepressant medicine in history ... From: serotonin, and sadness: the biology of antidep...www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/full/21/13/3404-a
1997 May 26, 1997 - Henry Allen's May 7 Style article "A Capsule History of Psychiatry" is clever but off-base. Although there are those mental health clients who receive relief from marvelous medications such as Prozac and other antidepressants, it is my experience that most depressed persons use ...
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2000 May 23, 2000 - Article: Antidepressant Alleviates Hot Flashes. Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly; December 28, 2000 ; 700+ words ......alleviates hot flashes in about 60% of breast cancer survivors...medication for breast cancer, tamoxifen...to cause hot flashes. Hot flashes...history of ...
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2001 Aug 4, 2001 - "The history of psychopharmacology is interesting because of how doctors become caught up in the marketing strategies of pharmaceutical companies. Just as soon as the SSRIs go off patent, there will be another generation of antidepressants that will be patented. ...
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2004 Mar 1, 2004 - There was no difference in tumor estrogen receptor status based upon whether a woman had used antidepressants: 25% of women with a history of antidepressant use had estrogen receptor-negative tumors, as did 23% of patients who'd never used antidepressants.
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2005 Nov 21, 2005 - There was outright nonchalance about Michael's mental health and history of antidepressant use, some completely ignored the issue, ... However, since he was on several other antidepressants, and some of those are major antidepressants, we can conclude he has a history of depression as ...
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2006 Dec 13, 2006 - “It's like a religious war,” said Edward Shorter, a medical historian at the University of Toronto and author of the definitive “History of ... An analysis by FDA scientists of data from drug trials, released last week, found that adults under 25 who took antidepressants were more than ...
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2007 Jan 22, 2007 - Most women who stop using the drug are under age 40, over 75 or they have a history of antidepressant use, researchers said. About one in five women ended use of the drug within a year, the scientists found after examining prescription records in Ireland. The standard regime for the ...
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2008 Jul 20, 2008 - SIDE EFFECTS: A BESTSELLING DRUG ON TRIAL. Alison Bass. 240 pages, Algonquin Books, $24.95. It's hard not to cheer for the little guy in "Side Effects," the true story of underdogs who stand up to powerful drug companies and their questionable ethics. It's also a story that needs to be ...
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How often if ever do you read the labels of your medications whether it’s an over-the-counter drug or a prescription drug? If you don’t read the labels don’t feel alone most people just read the dosage on the bottles and some don’t even do that the doctor might say take one pill once a day and that’s what they do regardless of what the bottle says. The problem is more and more people are taking medications for some reason or another, and not even looking at what the side effects are much less what can happen if you mix them. Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in Americans; there are many risk factors that can put a person at risk for suicide. Among the many risk factors the number one is depression and mental illness. Interestingly a lot of the victims of suicide are already being medically treated.
Interesting chronology... all leading to eventual awareness these days of the importance of close monitoring of people taking SSRIs.
ReplyDeleteThe field of neuropsychopharmacoplogy is one in which there are still so many unknowns, and it would seem that the development and prescribing of these drugs is based as much on theoretical assumptions as well as facts. Individual brain chemistry is difficult to analyze and is prone to many mistakes because of the subjectivity in assessment and diagnosis. Drugs cannot alone attribute to the incidence of suicide, but we must certainly consider them as an influence. Perhaps we should look deeper within our society and culture for reasons not so clearly evident.
ReplyDeleteThats true david and thats why this topic is so controversal because yes these ssri drugs probably cause suicidal thoughts but who can say if that person didnt already have those and thats why they were on them in the first place so you cant quite blame the medication for what we are not completely sure of.
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