Eli Lilly knew Prozac had 1200% higher suicide rate than other antidepressants

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Saturday, January 15, 2005 commentary:

 

Eli Lilly knew Prozac had 1200% higher suicide rate than other

antidepressants

 

t's yet another example of the widespread negligent actions committed

by Big Pharma in the quest for profits. It's not just Vioxx, Bextra or

Celebrex. Now the truth is finally starting to come out on

antidepressant drugs like Prozac.

 

And what is the truth? That drug makers like Eli Lilly not only knew

their star drugs were more dangerous than alternatives, but that they

actively sought to suppress the release of that information in order

to protect profits.

 

What we are witnessing today is the beginning of the end of an era:

the days of the Big Pharma con in which direct-to-consumer advertising

pushed a drug industry to unprecedented levels of corporate greed.

 

Of course, Eli Lilly denies everything. It's the same story talking to

Merck. All these companies claim to be actually protecting the public

health and working for the common good. Yet they continue to sell

drugs with questionable safety records that are only now coming to

light. And in none of these cases did these companies produce these

documents on their own. In every case, they were " caught " by other

people or organizations such as the British Medical Journal, which has

gone public with these documents on Prozac.

 

If all this sounds familiar, it is: Big Tobacco used the same

stonewalling efforts in its ongoing denials that cigarettes were

harmful to health (or even addictive, if you can believe that). Today,

Big Pharma looks a whole lot like Big Tobacco: corporate greed,

massive cover-ups, and hundreds of thousands of people dying each year

from the use of their products.

 

One more thing: there are still tens of thousands of brainwashed

physicians willing to prescribe all these dangerous drugs to you. And

if the brainwashing wasn't enough, the kickbacks certainly are.

Recommended reading: " On the Take " by Jerome Kassirer, M.D. If you

want to know the truth about how drug companies literally bribe

doctors into peddling their drugs, read this book. It's authored by

the former editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal.

 

Finally, I want to mention that I warned people about the suicide risk

of Prozac back in 1998. Back then, the idea that antidepressant drugs

could cause suicides was considered ludicrous. It was fringe

information, almost conspiracy theory stuff. Today, we're learning

it's 100% true. And if you don't believe me, just ask the parents of

all the children killed at the Colombine high school massacre in

Colorado: their killers were on antidepressant drugs.

 

Getting the picture yet?

 

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Overview:

 

* An internal document purportedly from Eli Lilly and Co. made

public Monday appears to show that the drug maker had data more than

15 years ago showing that patients on its antidepressant Prozac were

far more likely to attempt suicide and show hostility than were

patients on other antidepressants and that the company attempted to

minimize public awareness of the side effects.

* The document was provided to CNN by the office of Rep. Maurice

Hinchey, D-New York, who has called for tightening FDA regulations on

drug safety.

* " The case demonstrates the need for Congress to mandate the

complete disclosure of all clinical studies for FDA-approved drugs so

that patients and their doctors, not the drug companies, decide

whether the benefits of taking a certain medicine outweigh the risks, "

he said.

* The 1988 document indicated that 3.7 percent of patients

attempted suicide while on the blockbuster drug, a rate more than 12

times that cited for any of four other commonly used antidepressants.

* The document, which cited clinical trials of 14,198 patients on

fluoxetine -- the generic name for Prozac -- also stated that 2.3

percent of users suffered psychotic depression while on the drug, more

than double the next-highest rate of patients using another

antidepressant.

* In the paper, titled " Activation and sedation in fluoxetine

clinical trials, " the authors said that the drug may produce

nervousness, anxiety, agitation or insomnia in 19 percent of patients,

and sedation in 13 percent of patients.

* Its editors said the documents had been reported missing from a

10-year-old murder case, and that they had sent them to the U.S. Food

and Drug Administration for review.

* A spokesman for Lilly said his company was expecting the release

of the purported internal documents, but that he could not comment on

them until he had seen them.

 

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/01/03/prozac.documents/

 

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