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Posted by Shawn. T. on July 25, 2002, at 20:19:41
http://biopsychiatry.com/bigpharma/index.html
"When it comes to spin, the drug companies make the government look clumsy and amateurish. At the heart of the worries over SSRIs is the growing belief that the drug companies have been less than honest in their account of the risks involved."
"As a striking illustration of this gap between secret and public knowledge, Healy is fond of quoting a story from an American newspaper, the Boston Globe, which appeared in May 2000. It concerned a new form of Prozac, known as R-fluoxetine, which had been patented in 1993 (US patent no 5,708,035) and which Eli Lilly planned to market when the existing patent ran out in 2002. A patent application requires that you say why your new version is an improvement. So what were the benefits of R-fluoxetine? "It will not produce several existing side effects, including akathsia [agitation], suicidal thoughts and self-mutilation . . . one of its [Prozac's] more significant side effects" - precisely the side effects that the company had been denying for a decade."
Posted by cybercafe on July 26, 2002, at 2:03:29
In reply to Eli Lilly admitted Prozac causes suicidal thoughts, posted by Shawn. T. on July 25, 2002, at 20:19:41
> "As a striking illustration of this gap between secret and public knowledge, Healy is fond of
yeah Healy has a lot of good information on other SSRIs as well, like paroxetine and sertraline .... but supposedly none of them thought that the fact that healthy volunteers with no history of mental illness killed themselves to be important enough to report
Posted by jda1292 on July 26, 2002, at 20:01:46
In reply to Eli Lilly admitted Prozac causes suicidal thoughts, posted by Shawn. T. on July 25, 2002, at 20:19:41
I am sure this is money related. I was reading about Paxil CR, for I am currently taking Paxil, and they make it look like a new and improved drug! Many psychiatry sites have called it a marketing ploy for the patent is ready to expire and they need a new drug. Paxil CR is supposed to stop nausea which normally goes away after the first week if it is even experienced.
My old PD said that this would help my tiredness in the future when the drug comes out. Yeah right!
This is the same thing that the makers of Prozac did with their 'weekly dosing' wow! Imagine that it works for a whole week! What incredible technology!
They make some of the old into something not really new so that they can get a new patent. Pretty Cheesy!
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