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"The following year, the New York State Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, sued GlaxoSmithKline over unpublished studies showing lack of efficacy of paxil in children; Spitzer claimed that the company withheld information from doctors about the negative results of clinical trials it conducted on the use of paxil in children.21 Spitzer's lawsuit alleged that GlaxoSmithKline published only one of five studies it conducted on the impact of paxil on children and suppressed the negative results of the other studies." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"The effectiveness of paxil in long-term treatment of GAD (greater than 8 weeks) was not evaluated, nor was paxil studied in children and adolescents with GAD. Caution: paxil should not be used in children and adolescents for the treatment of major depressive disorder. Antidepressants in adults and children should be used with caution. Never discontinue use of antidepressants without first consulting a physician. Q Steroid drugs and oral contraceptives may cause serotonin levels in the brain to drop." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"In the Summer of 2003 Britain's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency prohibited the prescription of the SSRI drug paxil (sold in Britain under the name Seroxat) to depressed patients.142 In December of 2003 the MHPRA declared antidepressants Zoloft, Lexapro, Celexa, Luvox, Serzone, Remeron, and paxil unsuitable for those under eighteen years of age.143 The Committee on Safety of Medicines, a subagency of the MHPRA, found "the risks of treating depressive illness in under 18s with certain SSRIs outweigh the benefits of treatment." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"When the manufacturer of paxil performs nine clinical studies on the treatment of adolescents for depression and finds that paxil is no more effective than placebos and, in fact, significantly increases the frequency of "emotional lability" (including suicidal thoughts and attempts), it's no problem. The company publishes one study that shows a benefit, fails to publish the other eight, and markets away. When British drug authorities spill the beans? No problem." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Some examples: Over the past ten years worldwide sales of serotonin-enhancing antidepressants such as Prozac, paxil, and Zoloft have exploded. paxil, the best-selling drug of the three, is used to treat more than 59 million patients (including 11 million children) each year. These families of drugs are prescribed for the treatment of depression that interferes with daily functioning, obsession, and compulsion (an obsession is a thought that won't go away; a compulsion is an action done over and over to relieve anxiety)." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"Professor Gorman's message on that corporate speaking tour was that worrying too much might actually be a disease, one that was easily treatable with drugs like paxil. Professor Gorman was also the editor of CNS Spectrums, a medical journal specializing in the central nervous system. The journal was published by a small company in Manhattan called Medworks Media, which courted pharmaceutical marketers by offering to publish their corporate studies for a fee. In April 2002, Forest paid Medworks Media to publish an article by Dr. Gorman in a supplement to CNS Spectrums. Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The drug companies have become marketing machines, selling antidepressants like paxil, pain pills like Celebrex, and heart medications like Lipitor with the same methods that Coca-Cola uses to sell Sprite and Procter 8c Gamble uses to sell Tide. Selling prescription drugs—rather than discovering them—has become the pharmaceutical industry's obsession. Prescription drug marketing now permeates every corner of American society—from Sesame Street to nursing homes to the nightly news." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "There were Zoloft wall clocks, bottles of paxil hand cream, and enough pens, staplers, notepads, clipboards—all emblazoned with pharmaceutical brand names—to supply a nearby office building. I watched as a white-haired physician wandered through the hall, stopping at each booth and picking up one or two items from each table. He carried three large shopping bags, each brimming with swag. In 1900 the influential physician Dr. William Osier said in a speech that doctors could not just end their education after medical school." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "If someone in Iowa City remembered at midnight he was out of tablets of paxil or Provigil, he did not have to wait for morning. He could drive down to the Walgreens at the busy corner of Highway 6 and First Avenue in Coralville, which was staffed with a pharmacist twenty-four hours a day. Iowans needing to refill prescriptions did not even need to park their cars. Drugstores had drive-through windows, where one could pick up a bottle of pills just like a Big Mac. Many people got their pills without ever leaving their homes." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Luvox is approved for children and youth with obsessive compulsive disorder, but doctors often give it for depression, since it is in the same class as Prozac, Zoloft and paxil. While psychiatric drug use is only one of the contributing factors to the episodes of school violence, it is one of the most easily prevented factors. There is strong scientific evidence to support the view that these drugs should not be given to children and teenagers." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "We may increase the Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa or the paxil, these knock-off Prozac drugs. We'll increase it and we will give the child Lithium or Depicot or something else. In my clinical practice, I see kids on three and four drugs by the time they are 12. The doctor declares the child to have one or the other disease or disorder when it is, in fact, drug induced." Drug-induced aggression and violence has briefly made it into the headlines as a result of recent school shootings. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "For example, as reported in several 2007 studies in the Archives of Internal Medicine, elderly patients taking certain drugs, including Prozac and paxil, had increased risk of fragile bones and fractures from falls. A variety of effective natural therapies are available for these disorders, including diet and nutrition, nutritional supplements, meditation, exercise, and psychotherapy. These are all described in Chapter 7. Special care must be taken when providing any intervention in an older patient, particularly when there are other conditions involved." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like paxil and Prozac block reuptake of serotonin in neurons in the brain. Clonidine stimulates the norepinephrine alpha-2 receptor, which has the effect of decreasing norepinephrine ("adrenaline") function in the brain. Gabapentin, which is used for the treatment of epilepsy, acts on the GABA neurotransmitter system in the brain. All three of these types of medications have been shown to reduce hot flashes. SSRIs and gabapentin are discussed in Chapter 15, the chapter on antidepressants." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"For example, in some children the antidepressant paxil, which is generally well tolerated by healthy adults, has caused agitation and even thoughts of suicide. A note of caution before I go into the specific antidepressants that are widely used: In this book I have not listed all of the specific side effects when describing medications, but this does not mean particular side effects don't exist. All drugs have potential side effects, and you must explore them with your child's physician." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Paxil, which grossed $2.3 billion in sales. Yet another SSRI, Celexa, placed seventeenth in sales, grossing $1.5 billion. SSRIs were also third in prescription activity, 140 million in 2002, up 12.6% from 2001. It is generally believed that SSRIs are effective in the treatment of depression. Prescriptions are easy to get and millions of Americans take them. But, in this book, we repeatedly ask the question: Do they work? That is, are SSRIs effective treatments for depression? In the early 1990s, SSRIs were tested against so-called tricyclic antidepressants (TCA), the drugs they replaced." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Prozac's duration of action is much longer than Paxil's. It can take a week or more after the last dose for the blood level to fall by one-half. So when people stop taking Prozac abruptly, they are nonetheless withdrawing from the drug at a comparatively slow pace. However, people do experience withdrawal reactions from Prozac, usually starting several days or weeks after terminating the drug. If the person has been taking the medication for several months or more, I recommend a gradual withdrawal." - Peter R. Breggin, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, paxil, Celexa, and Luvox (Get the book.) "Ironically, all of the SSRIs, including paxil, are known to cause anxiety. The approval of these drugs to treat anxiety-related conditions is a tribute to the art of conducting controlled clinical trials. Zoloft was approved for depression in December 1991.1 found internal FDA documents in which the head of the division that approves psychiatric drugs was expressing doubt about Zoloft's efficacy on the day of its approval.4 Zoloft has also been FDA-approved for obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic disorder." - Peter R. Breggin, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, paxil, Celexa, and Luvox (Get the book.) "Many textbooks discuss Prozac, Zoloft, paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft as a group without mentioning many differences. The main differences, such as the intensity of acute withdrawal symptoms, will be discussed as we go along. The Stimulant Profile Stimulation can manifest itself in many ways, including insomnia, increased energy, agitation, anxiety, nervousness, tremors, loss of appetite, and weight loss. These effects are the same as those caused by the classic stimulants—methylphenidate (Ritalin), amphetamine, methamphetamine, Ecstasy, and cocaine." - Peter R. Breggin, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, paxil, Celexa, and Luvox (Get the book.) "Therefore the paxil, rather than preexisting depression or a latent tendency to mania, was the cause of the mania. Mania in response to Luvox occurred in a whopping 4 percent of depressed youngsters (ages eight-seventeen) during the FDA trials, whereas it never occurred in the control group of similar young patients who were administered placebo. If government agencies or organized psychiatry were sufficiently concerned about SSRI-induced mania and psychosis, they could carry out additional epidemiological studies to evaluate its frequency and severity. These have not been conducted." - Peter R. Breggin, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, paxil, Celexa, and Luvox (Get the book.)

"Two days after one of my patients began tapering off her last small dose of paxil, she endured several days of throbbing headaches like "knives stabbing into my brain," as well as dizziness and depression with fits of inexplicable, uncontrollable weeping. When patients attempt to describe the "weird feelings" caused by antidepressants, frustration often sets in. There is no adequate vocabulary to communicate the bizarre internal experience. Unsympathetic or uninformed physicians often fail to realize that the prescribed medication is causing this torture." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Several years earlier, when I gained access to sealed company records in a product-liability suit against GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturer of paxil, I investigated the relationship between akathisia and suicidal or violent behavior. Although the drug company systematically tried to avoid diagnosing patients with the dread disorder akathisia, a number of cases turned up in their European database. Working with my research assistant Ian Goddard, we found many correlations between akathisia and suicidal behavior, including completed suicides." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "To the contrary, we have known for nearly two decades that akathisia is commonly associated with the newer antidepressants, like paxil, Prozac, Zoloft, and Celexa. The watershed year was 1989, when investigators reported on five cases of akathisia caused by Prozac.5 They reviewed the scientific literature, found rates of 9.7 to 25 percent for Prozac-induced akathisia, and concluded that Prozac "and perhaps other antidepressant drugs as well, may produce the side effect of akathisia fairly frequently." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Among the actions have been a 2004 lawsuit against the makers of paxil for concealing information about the antidepressant's safety and efficacy in children, and a 2006 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine which determined that women taking SSRIs during the second half of pregnancy were more likely to deliver children with birth defects." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"For anxiety and depression, there are the common SSRIs (Prozac, paxil, Celexa, Zoloft), newer SNRIs (Effexor, Cymbalta) and tricyclic antidepressants, and sedatives. For vasomotor symptoms, a blood pressure med, a seizure drug, SSRIs, SNRIs, and ergots can be prescribed. None of these medications' actions on relieving sweats and flushes are understood—practitioners have just observed that some women on some medications had significant improvement in their symptoms. Most of the drugs are safe and easy to use, but some are expensive. The blood pressure med used is Clonidine, usually 0.1 to 0." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Changes in personality were also noted with one of the earliest antidepressants, imipramine, which has approximately half the potency for serotonin uptake as Prozac and less than one third of the potency of paxil. It was often prescribed for what was first referred to as a character disorder and later a personality disorder. Changes in personality are one of the first symptoms families are told to look for as an indicator that a family member is beginning to have drug abuse problems. Drugs and personality changes have always gone hand in hand." - Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D., Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? The Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More (Get the book.) "An area that needs to be addressed while we are discussing chemicals is the question surrounding the component of fluorine in the chemical structure of Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) - C17/H18/F3/N/0/.HC1, paxil and Luvox. What is fluorine? The definition in Webster's New World Dictionary (1989) is: "a corrosive, poisonous, pale greenish yellow gaseous chemical element, the most reactive non-metallic element, forming fluorides with almost all the know elements (symbol F)." - Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D., Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? The Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More (Get the book.) "Therefore it is recommended that Zoloft, Prozac, paxil, etc. not be used concurrently with each other or any other serotonergic drugs and that these serious adverse reactions should be expected with these combinations (Callahan, 1993). Just how serotonin specific are the SSRIs? Serotonin is the most prevalent neurotransmitter system in the brain, yet the theory behind raising serotonin levels is that this procedure is only going to affect specific areas of the brain causing changes in mood to alleviate depression and other mood disorders." - Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D., Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? The Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More (Get the book.) "The Medicines Control Agency in the UK has worked for nearly a year to get GlaxoSmithKline to include suicide warnings in the paxil package insert. In his article for the Guardian newspaper entitled "The missing warning on a drug for desperate people, Users of an antidepressant are not yet being alerted to a possible suicide risk," Edward Harriman discusses the company's silence on this serious issue. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,492305,00." - Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D., Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? The Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More (Get the book.)

"Nervousness, insomnia (especially with Zoloft), drowsiness (especially with paxil), fatigue, weakness, tremor, increased sweating, dizziness, anxiety (especially with Prozac), headache (especially with paxil), dry mouth (with Zoloft and paxil), male sexual dysfunction (especially with Zoloft), loss of appetite, nausea (seen most with Luvox, but experienced by more than 20 percent of subjects for all the SSRIs), diarrhea, stomach discomfort (Prozac and Zoloft), altered appetite and weight, and constipation (Paxil)." - Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA, Bottom Line's Prescription Alternatives (Get the book.)

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