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"Van Meerendonk's story is no reason to ban Prozac," Czarka insists. Yet Van Meerendonk is not asking for a ban. "I realise how bad depression can be and that psychotherapy doesn't always help," he says. "But I'm convinced that many people have been wrongly prescribed Prozac: when they're in mourning, want to give up smoking or drinking, want to lose weight or have been mugged. What these people really need is empathy and support." prozac and breastfeeding Last year, the company wrote to doctors condemning a September 1996 Paris-Match article that criticised Prozac and referred to the Wesbecker trial in the US (see box). "No one has won a case against Lilly involving Prozac," says Czarka. Despite such confidence, the company is quick to attack anyone and anything that questions the drug's safety. effects of prozac Czarka insists that the drug is safe. "We're far ahead in neuro-science," he says, pacing his office and bombarding me with scientific documents. "We're researching drugs for Parkinson's disease, for Alzheimer's, for osteoporosis."
prozac and breastfeedingLast year, Rose Chambers, an Englishwoman living in Belgium, was prescribed another SSRI, Seroxat. "I wasn't depressed, just feeling a bit low," she says. "My doctor asked if I was tired and had trouble getting up some mornings. When I said yes, he told me that this drug would make me feel better. It didn't. I became feverish and my head felt as if it was going to explode. He blamed it on a virus, but I'm sure it was the drug, so I stopped taking it."
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When Ecolo politician Thierry Detienne raised the issue of Prozac over-prescription in Parliament in March, he referred to a 1994 study by David Healy, one of Lilly's consultants, which concluded that antidepressants, including Prozac, could induce suicidal tendencies. prozac "I'm convinced Lilly uses the scientology ruse to deflect criticism," says Van Meerendonk, who is backed on this issue by writers and commentators. Van Meerendonk took Lilly to court for linking him with scientology. "I was convinced that I'd win and didn't prepare a defence." side effects of prozac He lost. The judge said it was understandable that Lilly had connected him with the Church because of the early links between scientology and the PSSG, and because Van Meerendonk had not personally disassociated himself from the sect. Van Meerendonk is preparing an appeal.
shelf life of prozacLilly has dismissed Breggin's criticisms. "We have no evidence that anything Kramer or Breggin says is true," Czarka insists. But Lilly did not sue either author and neither has had to retract any of his conclusions.
prozac %2bacida"Nobody knows the long-term side-effects of Prozac or other SSRIs," argues Van Meerendonk. "For years, doctors denied that there were problems with Valium and benzodiazepines. Now we know that they can be addictive. Prozac should be prescribed only when absolutely necessary." does prozac cause school shootings "Prozac is a scientific advance," says Bourgignon. "Many people have benefited from it, but some have had bad reactions. I'm worried because the number of people taking it has risen tenfold since 1990 and more and more side-effects, including sexual dysfunction, hallucination and psychosis, are beginning to emerge." prozac for diet The company has also received adverse publicity from Van Meerendonk, who bases his information on a substantial library of books, articles, videos, documents and scientific papers about Prozac and its manufacturers. Last year, Lilly accused him and the Benelux PSSG of being "pseudonyms for the Church of Scientology". prozac and autism Eighty responded and reported reactions that included suicidal tendencies and violence. potatoes not prozac "I'm convinced Lilly uses the scientology ruse to deflect criticism," says Van Meerendonk, who is backed on this issue by writers and commentators. Van Meerendonk took Lilly to court for linking him with scientology. "I was convinced that I'd win and didn't prepare a defence." A Belgian doctor is collecting anecdotal evidence about the drug's side-effects;
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| In March, Lilly took Bourgignon to court, accusing him of conducting a non-scientific survey that was commercially damaging to Lilly. Lilly lost the case, but has appealed. The verdict is due in September.
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