Posted by Meri-Tuuli on October 22, 2006, at 2:54:08
In reply to Re: seroquel..., posted by linkadge on October 21, 2006, at 15:47:44
> We are learning things now about the SSRI's that we had no idea of when they were first released.Or the risk of suicide in children/young people.
I was very shocked to find out from wikipedia regarding Cymbalta (which I know is not an SSRI and this is off topic now, but still):
'In one trial nearly a fifth of the volunteers testing Eli Lilly's antidepressant drug, duloxetine, dropped out after a 19-year old student committed suicide at a company laboratory. The student, Traci Johnson, was one of 25 healthy patients at an Eli Lilly clinic who were being given larger than therapeutic doses of duloxetine, which will be known as Cymbalta if it is introduced as an antidepressant. Four days before her death, Ms. Johnson was taken off Cymbalta and given a placebo
Four other patients who were given the drug during earlier trials also committed suicide, the company said.'
How on earth did the drug get approved??!?!?!?
If Cymbalta were a herb, my goodness, it'd be treated as if it were the most poisenous substance know to man! It never ceases to amaze me how supposedly 'safe' drugs, are actually pretty danergous. Actually, it never ceases to amaze me how greedy drug companies are. Drug development should be done by independant researchers at universities (for example) rather than profiteering drug companies who, IMHO, downplay side effects and convince us of the benefits.
Sigh.
Meri
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