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"He was started on zoloft (sertraline HCI) 50 mg daily. After the first 2 weeks, the patient's anxiety slightly improved, but he had noticeable side effects from the medication, such as lethargy, apathy, and anorgasmia. After 4 weeks of use, the zoloft seemed to work fairly well; the patient had some days without any anxiety. His dose of zoloft was increased to 100 mg daily. The patient was also put on 5 mg of Buspirone (BuSpar) three times each day. After 3 months of use, the patient had no significant improvement, and his anxiety symptoms continued to be debilitating." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"He was started on zoloft (sertraline HCl) 50 mg daily. After the first 2 weeks, the patient's anxiety slightly improved, but he had noticeable side effects from the medication, such as lethargy, apathy, and anorgasmia. After 4 weeks of use, the zoloft seemed to work fairly well; the patient had some days without any anxiety. His dose of zoloft was increased to 100 mg daily. The patient was also put on 5 mg of Buspirone (BuSpar) three times each day. After 3 months of use, the patient had no significant improvement, and his anxiety symptoms continued to be debilitating." - Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH, Anxiety: Orthomolecular Diagnosis and Treatment (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, Ketek is not an anom- Paxil, zoloft, and Ejfexor In September 2003 FDA medical reviewer Dr. Andrew D. Mosholder discovered evidence that antidepressant drugs (serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)), including Paxil, zoloft, and Effexor, could increase the risk of suicidal thoughts in children.135 FDA had assigned Mosholder the task of evaluating claims of an association between antidepressants and suicidal behavior in children in June of 20 03.136 Dr." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Five months later: The murder trial: 15 February 2005—In a story that received national media coverage, a teenager who blamed the antidepressant zoloft for his violent behavior was convicted of killing his grandparents when he was 12 years old. Pfizer, which has fourteen criminal cases pending, welcomed the decision. "Zoloft didn't cause his problems, nor did the medication drive him to commit murder. On these two points, both Pfizer and the jury agree?'' Whatever their effectiveness, one thing is sure: SSRIs are used more than ever to treat depression in children and adolescents." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Arif Khan, a psychiatrist in Bellevue, Washington, reviewed the data from the dozens of clinical trials that companies had performed to prove that zoloft, Prozac, Paxil, and six other antidepressants actually worked. These drugs are now some of the most prescribed medicines in America. Dr. Khan and his colleagues found fifty-two completed trials of these drugs, which involved more than ten thousand patients. In more than half these studies, the sugar tablet relieved the patients' depression just as well as, or better than, the antidepressant." - 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.)

"His dose of zoloft was increased to 100 mg daily. The patient was also put on 5 mg of Buspirone (BuSpar) three times each day. After 3 months of use, the patient had no significant improvement, and his anxiety symptoms continued to be debilitating. He found his tendency to avoid social situations increased due to severe fears of blushing. He also avoided interactions with his professors and peers as much as possible. He preferred to stay at home and only go out when necessary. At this point he discontinued both the zoloft and BuSpar due to their apparent ineffectiveness." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"The most popular pharmaceutical antidepressants— Prozac, zoloft, Lexapro, etc.—belong to a class called serotonin selective reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The SSRIs do just what the term says— they inhibit the action of the cleanup crew that "mops up" serotonin from the brain, thus allowing serotonin to hang around longer. The more serotonin, goes the reasoning, the happier the camper. Enter 5-HTP. Your body makes serotonin from an amino acid known as L-tryptophan. L-tryptophan comes in foods like turkey and seafood." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Actually this is true for the majority of people, but in some less common cases it may take up to five weeks to work, about the same as a pharmaceutical antidepressant in the SSRI class, which includes Prozac, Paxil, and zoloft.) A review of eleven research papers on SAMe, published in Clinical Investigative Medicine in June 2005, concluded that "there appears to be a role for SAMe in the treatment of major depression in adults." Note the qualifier "major." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "One study compared 5-HTP to fluvoxamine, an SSRI like Prozac, Paxil, and zoloft. In the study, subjects received either 5-HTP (100 mg) or fluvoxamine (50 mg) three times daily for six weeks. More patients felt better after using 5-HTP than fluvoxamine, and 5-HTP was quicker acting than the fluvoxamine. And in one other study, patients who were unresponsive to other antidepressant therapy showed significant improvement when using 5-HTP. Then there are headaches." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Zoloft, didn't help them either.) So what should you conclude from this one study? Does it mean you shouldn't try St. John's Wort if you are mildly depressed? Not at all. While it's true that in the JAMA study, St. John's Wort didn't show much effect on the most intractable and difficult of depressions, dozens of other studies—and the experience of an enormous number of people—suggest that St. John's Wort may be very effective for some of the lighter varieties of depression, which afflict untold numbers of people. An Historic and Helpful Herb St." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Following that are the category of drugs for the treatment of depression, such as the brand zoloft. Third in prescription activity are "statins," which are drugs that lower cholesterol (Lipitor and other brands). ACE inhibitors, for treatment of high blood pressure and chronic heart failure, are the fourth most commonly prescribed. We've already considered semisynthetic narcotics; our discussion of antidepressants awaits the following chapter. Therefore, we turn our attention to..." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "The best known brand, zoloft, was in 2003 fifth in sales at $2.6 billion, followed immediately by 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?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The result of all this: Paxil passed Prozac and zoloft and became the world's ninth best-selling drug.101 The marketing has been so excessive that the drug companies clearly took advantage of the events of September 11 for sales. Even Psychiatric News, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association, said that drug makers like Glaxo found 9/11 "a marketing opportunity." According to Nielsen Media Research, drug ads increased dramatically in the weeks after the attacks. In October 2001 alone, Glaxo spent $16 million on advertising Paxil, almost twice what they spent the previous October." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"During the screenings at Iowa State University, therapists played videos for the students to watch, including Life After Trauma: What Every Person Should Know, which was produced by Pfizer, the maker of zoloft. "When I began taking the questionnaire, I got more anxious because I wondered if I would have symptoms of having an emotional condition," wrote Katie Melson of her experience in an article in the Iowa State Daily, the student newspaper. "I could feel the stress building as mid-term week approached." - 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.)

"Each year more and more Americans were taking psychiatric medications, particularly the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressants like zoloft, Paxil, and Prozac. What started as a drip developed into a stream, a river, and then a torrent. Introduced to the market in 1988, Prozac appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 1990 ("A Breakthrough Drug for Depression"); was the subject of a best-selling and extremely influential book, Peter Kramer's Listening to Prozac in 1993; graced, again, in 1994 the Newsweek cover, this time with even greater claims ("Shy? Forgetful? Anxious?" - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"For example, Pfizer's marketers expanded sales of zoloft, its antidepressant, by having scientists perform studies aimed at showing that it not only eased depression but also relieved fear in people who were extremely shy and suffering from what had become known as social anxiety disorder. These clinical trials performed after a drug is approved by the FDA are known in the industry as Phase IV research studies." - 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.)

"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.) "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.)

"I had been taking zoloft (an antidepressant) since 1987 which seemed to take care of my depression. I lived on zoloft, but by September of 1999, it stopped working ?and I knew that something was really wrong. "My depression was preceded by many years of major stress from over-work, anxiety, hypomania, fibromyalgia, infrequent panic attacks, anger, stress, poor diet, overwhelming emotional feelings, night time muscle spasms, paranoia, asthma, prickly sensations in hands, arms, chest and lips. I wanted to sleep all day and had trouble getting up in mornings." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Lexapro is a newer drug with fewer side effects than its predecessors, such as Prozac, zoloft, and even Celexa. I have had good responses with this among some children. It can be effective for generalized anxiety disorder, in addition to depression, panic disorder, and OCD. Dosage, however, must be carefully tailored to the individual. In a recent study of Lexapro, 25 percent of the autistic patients who took it did not tolerate doses of the medication in excess of 10 mg. per day. My general rule is to start with low doses, and gradually increase them." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"In the zoloft trials, 15.5 percent of men and 1.7 percent of women were reported to have sexual difficulties. Keep in mind that these are the rates for adverse reactions that were gathered and evaluated by the drug companies themselves, and that the real rates are undoubtedly higher. Although reported rates vary widely, it remains apparent that SSRIs frequently disturb sexual function." - 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.) "Psychiatric Drugs Known to Cause or Worsen Depression The list of psychiatric drugs that can drive a person toward depression is extensive and includes the following: Antidepressants, including SSRIs like Prozac, Paxil, zoloft, Celexa, and Luvox. Stimulant drugs, such as Ritalin, Metadate, Concerta, Dexedrine, and Adderall. It seems counterintuitive that stimulants could cause depression and even doctors don't know that depression commonly results from taking these chemical agents." - 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.) "Prozac most commonly produced a "large swelling" in the body of neurons. zoloft produced "swollen and truncated" axons and in some cases made the neurons "corkscrew" in shape. The study voices concern about whether these injured cells could survive, but leaves the question unanswered. The authors suggest this damage could indicate the long-term effect of chronic SSRI use." - 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.) "I continue to be consulted as an expert in various kinds of legal actions involving SSRIs, including Prozac, zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox. In 2000, for example, I led attorneys into SmithKline and Beecham's corporate headquarters outside Philadelphia to go through their files on Paxil and at the start of 2001 I was doing the same thing at Eli Lilly and Co. in Indianapolis regarding Prozac. The legal process of obtaining otherwise secret information from the corporation is called "discovery." - 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.)

"Pfizer, which has fourteen criminal cases pending, welcomed the decision. "Zoloft didn't cause his problems, nor did the medication drive him to commit murder. On these two points, both Pfizer and the jury agree?'' Whatever their effectiveness, one thing is sure: SSRIs are used more than ever to treat depression in children and adolescents. Between 1995 and 2002, "drug mentions per physician visit" grew by only 29% among the elderly, and faster for each younger age group; for young people— age 18 and under, use of SSRIs increased by a whopping 124%." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"In patients on the other drugs, it could as easily be called by names like "Zoloft backlash" or "Paxil backlash." Experts believe this backlash is responsible for the severe side effects emerging with the drugs. The Lack of Systematic Monitoring of Long-Term Side Effects In light of the emergence of such serious side effects, one might ask why the public has not been made more aware. The answer lies in the lack of an adequate public health policy for monitoring long-term side effects of prescription drugs." - Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives (Get the book.)

"Clearly doctors should show extreme caution in their prescribing of these mind-mood-behavior-altering chemicals, especially the newer ones like Halcion, Xanex, Prozac, zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Effexor, Anafranil, etc., where our knowledge of the drugs are still sketchy. And patients should show extreme caution in using these drugs, many of which we have found to be extremely addictive even after being used in low doses for short periods. Time and experience are beginning to prove these new drugs to be just as addictive and deadly, if not more so, than those drugs which have gone on before them." - 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.) "SSRI antidepressants - Prozac, zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Effexor and Serzone.". . . Jeff Wise, psychologist, Salt Lake County Drug and Alcohol Abuse "Ann Blake Tracy is the only bio-psychologist in the world who has studied the long-term effects of these drugs."... attorney, Ellis Rubin, Miami, FL "In 15 years of reading books on drugs I have never read a book with more information or so well documented as PROZAC: PANACEA OR PANDORA? . . . Dr. Kevin Millet, Bountiful, UT While lecturing to physicians nationwide on the medical use of psychoactive drugs "PROZAC: PANACEA OR PANDORA ?" - 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.) "A few additional famous victims of these drugs are: Princess Di (Prozac) and Dodi Fayed -via their driver Henri Paul (Prozac), Monica Lewinsky (Prozac, zoloft, Effexor, Serzone and Phen-Fen), Chris Farley (Prozac-induced heart attack), Pres. Clinton's ex-partner Jim Mc Dougal (Prozac-induced heart attack after dose increased to 60mg in prison), Abby Hoffman (Prozac), Del Shannon (Prozac) (It is my opinion that this case has been settled with a gag order put in place.), Sarah - Dutchess of York (Phen-Fen), Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Jr." - 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.)

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