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Defining An Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety disorder Is generally a term that covers different types of extreme pathological phobia, fear, and anxiety. A person suffering from an anxiety disorder may experience abnormal feelings of anxiety even without knowing the cause or they may also have Intense and sudden panic attacks. The attacks may be In the form of unwanted obsessions or compulsions and uncommon social Inhibitions.

Even though anxiety disorders have different forms, they are all the same In one thing - extreme and persistent worrying or fear. This condition becomes alarming as the Intensity and frequency of the said responses can disrupt or undermine a person's everyday routine and productivity.

Below are the three characteristics of anxiety disorders:

1. Consistent, all-consuming, and continuous.

2. Interferes social Interactions and activities.

3. Causes emotional withdrawal and Isolation.

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My dad recently passed away and I went to a psychiatrist who said I had bipolar depression. I had been on Paxil but couldnt sleep when I was on it and I still had anxiety. So I went into this terrible cycle of not taking it-so I could sleep and then slowly plummeting into deep depression, so I would start taking Paxil againthen I would get sick of not being able to sleep-so I would go back off of it.
I dont have any mania at all, but I do get anxiety (it hasnt been a life-long thingjust since my dad got sick and died).. Anyhow, my doctor said I was bipolar depressed which is odd b/c I do not have any manic days.
She put me on depakote and it is working okay but I still miss my Paxil Anyhow, when I was upset and said, I dont think I am bipolar.. she said that I had it all wrong i wasnt bipolar manic, I am bipolar depressed. Anyone else have thoughts about this? All the info I seem to come up w/online is that bipolar depressed is the same thing as bipolar manic/bipolar disorder. But she was adamant that they arent the same
I do feel better taking depakote, I can sleep better but I do still get anxiety. She said that the SSRIs were causing me to get too much seratonin and that is what keeps me up gives me anxiety .
okay, baba.. I guess I should have backed up a bit. I had been on Paxil for awhile for just basic depression for about 8 yrs and I could take it or leave it, before my dad got real sick (he was real sick like 3 yrs ago and died 1 yr ago) Anyhow, I always HAD done fine on Paxil until 3 yrs ago (2 yrs before his death) when he was really sick, I was so worried and anxious That is when I started the VERY bad roller coaster of going on and off of paxilwaiting until I got so depressed I couldnt get out of bed before taking it and taking it a few wks until I felt better but couldnt sleep..
I forgot to also tell you guys she put me on lunesta tooto sleep. she put me on another medicationit made me a zombie and have horrible nightmaresand i got off of that.
Also, Clover.. I think you are right. I think I understand it all from what you typed. Any more thoughts, I would love to hear from any of you guys Clover, I think you really made sense of it to me though the anxiety and insomnia are the mania??
So that psychiatrist did NOT put me on paxil..i had already been on it.

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article by Evelyn Pringle - its a great place to begin to learn about the way certain doctors have taken bribes from drug companies to help in the marketing of certain drugs.
Throughout the 1990s, most doctors who attended conferences, medical seminars and other events were not aware that the so-called key opinion leaders encouraging them to prescribe the new generation of antidepressants for everything under the sun, including to children as young as infants, were nothing more than highly paid drug pushers for Big Pharma.
For years, the research that showed SSRI antidepressants (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) were dangerous and practically useless was kept hidden, while the studies published and presented to potential prescribers painted a glowing picture of success. These days, a person would be hard pressed to find someone who does not have a family member or friend labeled mentally ill and taking drugs like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Lexapro and Celexa, or their chemical cousins Effexor, Cymbalta and Wellbutrin.
About once a year, a new round of headlines about all the money made by the SSRI pushers comes and goes; but nothing really ever seemed to stick, until now.
The Senate Finance Committee, with the ranking Republican, Senator Charles Grassley, leading the charge, is investigating GlaxoSmithKline regarding new revelations in a report filed in litigation showing that the company manipulated the numbers on adverse events related to suicidality in clinical trials back in 1989, to make it appear that Paxil did not increase the risk of patients experiencing suicidal behavior when, in fact, trial subjects on Paxil were eight times more likely to attempt or commit suicide than patients taking placebos.
Quite a few of the top pushers are also under investigation by the Committee due to revelations that millions of dollars has changed hands between the SSRI makers and the academics who signed off on some of the most fraudulently reported research in the history of modern medicine. A full list of names is easy to compile by scanning the literature on SSRI studies conducted on children. The same names appear repeatedly.
In alphabetical order, the Fortune 500 team of pushers, at a minimum, includes Drs Joseph Biederman, David Brent, Jeffrey Bridge, Daniel Casey, David Dunner, Graham Emslie, Daniel Geller, Robert Gibbons, Frederick Goodwin, Martin Keller, Andrew Leon, John Mann, John March, Charles Nemeroff, John Rush, Neal Ryan, David Shaffer, and Karen Wagner.

Truth Buried in Litigation Graveyard
On February 6, 2007, the world famous historian on psycho-pharmacology, Dr David Healy, published a commentary entitled, Why you should never trust new wonder drugs, in the UKs Daily Mail stating:
Ten years ago, I sat faced with boxes and boxes that contained a dirty secret. Inside were thousands of confidential internal company documents about Prozac.The secret they revealed was that public statements about the safety of the drug were a lie; that the company knew Prozac was responsible for a raised risk of suicide and was only slightly more effective than a placebo.
Several years later, Dr Healy recounts, he was faced with the secrets of Paxil. No one outside the two companies, and few within them, he writes, knew what those boxes contained; I saw them because I was an expert witness in a court case.Documents prised out of companies by American court cases, he says, have become the main way we have of discovering the truth about some of our best-selling drugs.The scientific literature, the very place doctors would look for a warning, he writes, contained barely a hint of problems.”
s more, no one seems likely ever to have to answer for what appears to be fraud, he points out.
In other organizations when evidence of disregard for public safety emerges, heads roll, Dr Healy said. But there have been no resignations following these drug disasters - barely a flicker of embarrassment.
The UKs medicines “watchdog,” the British Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, he reports, has never taken any action against the academics who make fraudulent claims in ghostwritten articles, nor doctors working for the companies who repeat such claims, even when they have been shown to be untrue.And no one in Britain, he points out, has any means of finding out why their husband or child might have died.
Seven years before Dr Healy wrote this commentary, in a Prozac case for which he served as an expert witness, the plaintiffs legal team learned that Eli Lilly had withheld evidence in a jury trial when the May 7, 2007 Boston Globe reported that Lilly had agreed to pay $20 million for the rights to a patent on a new version of Prozac that would reduce the very side effect long believed to increase the risk of suicidal behavior, three months before the trial began.
While testifying under oath, Lilly researcher, Gary Tollefson, had told the jury, there is absolutely no medically sound evidence of an association between any antidepressant medicine, including Prozac, and the induction of suicidal ideation or violence.
When in fact, the wording in the patent for the new formula stated fluoxetine (Prozac) produces a state of inner restlessness (akathisia), which is one of its more significant side effects, and the adverse effects which are decreased by administering the R isomer of fluoxetine include but are not limited to headaches, nervousness, anxiety, insomnia, inner restlessness (akathisia), suicidal thoughts and self mutilation.
Patients who lived to talk about a failed suicide attempt have described the SSRI-induced akathisia, as being so unbearable that their only option for relief seemed to be death.

America’s Most Wanted
Dr Daniel Casey was a major player in the SSRI drug-push and useful in many ways to the companies promoting the drugs. He was the chairman of the very first FDA advisory committee that met in 1991, to decide whether a warning about the increased risk of suicide should be added to the label of Prozac, the first SSRI approved in the US, and voted it down. He was also the chairman of the advisory panel that voted to approve Zoloft for Pfizer later that same year.
Bob Sorenson was a sales representative for Pfizer for 21 years. He moved to Oregon shortly before Zoloft was approved. During the first week at his new location, Pfizer’s chief of marketing at the time told him he needed to start calling on a doctor by the name of Dr Daniel Casey at the V.A. in Portland because he was very important to the company.
Dr Casey worked at the V.A., but never treated patients for depression, Mr Sorenson says. His expertise [was] psychotropic drugs and experimentation.
The chief of marketing said he was interested in finding out what Dr Casey thought of the companys new drug, Zoloft. The company tried to call on him that day, but Dr Casey was not in. Mr Sorenson called on him later in the week and learned that Dr Casey was the lead investigator on Zoloft, which was up for approval by the FDA advisory committee Dr Casey chaired.
He said I shouldnt be there, but I did ask how it looks for the drug and he said very well, Mr Sorenson recalls.
Dr Casey ended up making a ton of money from Zoloft. He told me personally one time that he made enough from Pfizer in one year to purchase two cars, Mr Sorenson reports.
Dr Casey became a member of Pfizers Advisory Board for Zoloft, which meant all expense paid trips, including honorariums, to anywhere Pfizer wanted him to advise, at any location in the world, Mr Sorenson explains.
Many speakers were sought out that would only give lectures that put Zoloft in a positive light, he notes, there was no room for a balanced lecture.Dr Casey later became one of the most sought after speakers for the Pfizer promotion of Zoloft, he says, the reps loved him because of his positioning of Zoloft.
Mr Sorenson was often told to take information to speakers, including Dr Casey, to have them add the information to their lectures, he reports. I look back at it now and see how wrong it was, he states.
As far as the suicide issue, Mr Sorenson says, the standard company line was that parents and doctors should be monitoring these kids because after being on Zoloft they finally feel good enough that they can carry out their suicide tendencies.Another tactic was to blame Paxil and Effexor, he recalls, it was those drugs that caused suicidal tendencies, not Zoloft. he notes, the statement was made that if they didnt take Zoloft, they probably would have committed suicide anyway.
Sales reps would practice and rehearse these statements at sales meetings to be able to respond to concerns or objections raised by Doctors about Zoloft’s relationship to suicidality, he says. There would be contests as to who could detail the drug the best with objections, he recalls.
Pfizer was able to get rid of employees and still keep them quiet, he says, by offering severance packages of up to a years salary, while forcing them to sign a confidentiality agreement, in which they promised not to sue, or speak adversely about Pfizer, as part of the deal.
Many people were so surprised at being terminated that they felt forced to sign because Pfizer kept the pressure on, he explains. They feared they wouldn’t find another job before financial problems set in, but regretted signing the agreement later, he says.
Mr Sorenson did not sign an agreement when he was fired. His young son had developed cancer, but Pfizer expected him to continue to attend out-of-town meetings and refused to believe that his son was terminally ill, he recalls. After 20 years with the company, Mr Sorenson was let go when he insisted that he needed to remain near his dying son and distraught wife. The Sorensons son passed away on April 1, 2005.

Going rate for Legal Drug Pushers
SEC filings for Cypress Bioscience provide a good source for estimating how much money legal drug pushers can make each year, from each company, because the names of several appear in these filings. According to its website, “Cypress Bioscience is committed to developing and commercializing pharmaceutical products and personalized medicine laboratory services that allow physicians to serve unmet medical needs.”
Drs Martin Keller and Charles Nemeroff, two of the most prolific depression-mongers, have served on the company’s board of directors, on its scientific advisory board and as consultants for this company. Under their 2004 Consulting Agreements, Cypress was required to pay them $50,000 per year for services rendered up to and including “two days per fiscal quarter.” In addition, the company could request additional services at a rate of $5,000 per day.
During 2003, Dr Nemeroff was paid $19,000 for additional services under his agreement, and Dr Keller was paid an extra $18,000. But they were only making $2,000 per day that year. As members of the Psychopharmacology Advisory Board, Dr Nemeroff earned $19,000 and Dr Keller $18,000 in 2003.
For their service as directors of the company in 2002, they each received $24,000. They were also offered stock options regularly. Cypress is only company. A bio on Dr Keller in a July 25, 2002 agenda for an annual meeting states that he is also a consultant to, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Merck, Inc, Organon, Otsuka Pharmacia/Upjohn, Pharmastar, Pfizer, Inc. and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories.
It also shows he serves on the scientific advisory boards of, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cephalon, Cyberonics, Inc., Eli Lilly, Forest Laboratories, Merck, Inc, Mitsubishi, Organon, Pfizer, Sepracor, Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Somerse, Vela Pharmaceuticals and Wyeth-Ayerst.
Dr David Dunner and a few more of the usual suspects appear in the Cypress SEC filings as advisory board members as well.
Dr Nemeroffs role in the prostitution of research is legendary. In April 2004, Shannon Brownlee, author of, wrote an article in the Washington Monthly entitled, Doctors Without Borders, after he was caught failing to disclose his financial ties to the companies whose treatments he promoted in a paper in Nature Neuroscience, and noted:
With financial ties to nearly two dozen drug and biotech companies, Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff may hold some sort of record among academic clinicians for the most conflicts of interest.
A psychiatrist, a prominent researcher, and chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral science at Emory University in Atlanta, Nemeroff receives funding for his academic research from Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Wyeth-Ayerstindeed from virtually every pharmaceutical house that manufactures a drug to treat mental illness.
He also serves as a consultant to drug and biotech companies, owns their stocks, and is a member of several speakers bureaus, delivering talksfor a feeto other physicians on behalf of the companies products.
Dr Nemeroff stood to reap as much as $1 million in stock from just one company that manufactured one of the products in his Nature Neuroscience paper, she noted.
But the drug industrys most powerful means of boosting the bottom line is funding research, Ms Brownlee writes, which allows companies to control, or at least influence, a great deal of what gets published in the medical journals, effectively turning supposedly objective science into a marketing tool.
She notes how companies are able to routinely delay or prevent the publication of data and specifically how the majority of studies which found antidepressants to be no better than placebos, never saw print in medical journals.
In conclusion, she states, m struck more than anything by the apparent lack of shame among clinicians when it comes to this issue.
Two years later, on July 19, 2006, the Wall Street Journal reported that the journal, Neuropsychopharmacology, published by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), planned to publish a correction of a favorable review of a new depression treatment device because it failed to list the ties of the eight academic authors to the device maker, Cyberonics, including lead author Dr Nemeroff, the editor of Neuropsychopharmacology at that time. The FDA had approved the VNS device in July 2005 over the objections of more than 20 FDA scientists, Bloomberg reported a day earlier on July 18, 2006.
This is about as classic an example as youll ever find of conflict of interest and manipulation by thought leaders who are beholden to corporations, Dr Bernard Carroll, a member of the ACNP, told Bloomberg. This article is a piece of a slick, skillfully coordinated PR campaign directed by the corporation, he said.
Ten days before the Wall Street Journal article, Cyberonics had sponsored a little noticed symposium on treatment-resistant depression at the annual Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum Meeting. The main presenters at the July 9, 2006 event were Drs Nemeroff, Dunner, and Keller (the lead author of the infamous Paxil “Study 329” on adolescents).
In recent years, new treatment modalities have emerged, among them, the only FDA-approved treatment option specifically designed for this patient population, VNS Therapy, Dr Dunner stated in a press release for the event.
Dr Dunner was one of the authors vouching for the new device in the Neuropsychopharmacology paper. However, a “stamp of approval” from this guy should be taken with a grain of salt. Back in March 1995, he also vouched for Paxil as lead author of a study titled, Reduction of suicidal thoughts with paroxetine in comparison with reference antidepressants and placebo, in the journal of European Neuropsychopharmacology. However, he later admitted that he never reviewed any of the actual data from that study.
Dr Nemeroff apparently learned nothing from the public embarrassment of the previous scandals. Last week, he was forced to step down as Chair of Emory’s psychiatry department. According to a December 23, 2008 posting by Ed Silverman, on the popular blog, Pharmalot:
Under pressure from a US Senate Finance Committee investigation, renowned psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff is giving up the post he held for 17 years and must follow new restrictions on his outside activities, according to an Emory University statement.”
“Emory’s own investigation found Nemeroff received more than $800,000 from Glaxo, which paid Nemeroff more than any other drugmaker, but he never reported the fees. There were more than 250 speaking engagements between 2000 and 2006.”
Moreover, Emory will not submit any National Institutes of Health grant or other sponsored grant or contract requests in which Nemeroff is listed as an investigator or has any other role for a period of at least two years,” Pharmalot reports.
All total, Dr Nemeroff earned more than $2.8 million from drug companies between 2000 and 2007, but failed to disclose at least $1.2 million to Emory, according to the Senator.
Dr Keller’s disclosure records are under investigation as well He also appears center stage in a new book by former Boston Globe reporter, Alison Bass, called, Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, The book contains a treasure trove of insider revelations with specifics on Dr Kellers endless conflicts of interest, along with other academics on the take. However, Ms Bass first broke the Keller story back on October 4, 1999, in the Globe, when she reported that he was forced to forfeit hundreds of thousands of dollars in state grant money in 1998.
She explained how in the same year that Dr Keller authored a review article in Biological Psychiatry, and concluded that the newer antidepressants Zoloft, Bristol-Meyer’s Serzone, and Wyeth’s Effexor were more effective, he received $77,400 in personal income and $1.2 million in research funding from Bristol-Myers, as well as $8,785 in personal income from Wyeth.
In Side Effects, she notes that Dr Keller did not report any income to the IRS from Glaxo for 1998, but says he did receive money from the Paxil maker, and also earned $62,500 from Celexa maker Forest Labs that year.
Dr Keller published 3 studies, with colleagues, in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, touting the efficacy of Zoloft in 1998, and received $218,000 in personal income and more than $3 million in research funding from Pfizer the same year, Ms Bass reports.
The referred to include the all-time champion of child drugging, Dr Joseph Biederman, the main promoter of the bogus epidemic of childhood bipolar disorder. He too is under investigation for taking $1.6 million from drug companies between 2000 and 2007, and only disclosing a fraction of that amount to Harvard. On December 30, 2008, Harvard’s teaching hospital, Massachusetts General announced that Dr Biederman was no longer participating in several industry-funded trials and had agreed to “not to participate in any outside activities that are paid for or sponsored by industry, such as consulting activities or speaking engagements.”
In most of the SSRI trials conducted on children, will also include Dr Graham Emslie of Prozac fame, and the Zoloft Czar, Dr Karen Wagner, both from the University of Texas.
Back in April 2004, the British Medical Journal published a paper by a research team led by Dr Jon Jureidini, head of the department of psychological medicine at Womens and Childrens Hospital in Australia, after a review of the clinical trial data on the safety and efficacy of antidepressant use with children. The review included the published trials, along with some unpublished data made public by the Committee on Safety of Medicines in the UK.
The Australian team was extremely critical of the published papers on the major trials of Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft, with Emslie, Wagner and Keller listed as lead authors. In discussing their own data, the team wrote, the authors of all of the four larger studies have exaggerated the benefits, downplayed the harms, or both.It is vital, they wrote, that authors, reviewers, and editors ensure that published interpretations of data are more reasonable and balanced than is the case in the industry-dominated literature on childhood antidepressants.
Seven months later, the New York Times ran a report by Barry Meier on November 29, 2004, throwing another spotlight on the trail of corruption within the SSRI research factories, and zeroed in on Dr Wagner. He noted that, from 1998 to 2001, she was one of several researchers participating in more than a dozen industry-funded pediatric trials of antidepressants and other drugs, and that some of the results were published, but many were not.
In her Zoloft study, Dr Wagner acknowledged that she had received research support from several drug makers including Pfizer, which paid $80,000 to the center in connection with the test, Mr Meier reports. But she did not state that she received “sizable payments” from Pfizer for work related to the study, he says.
The same month that patients were first recruited for the Zoloft trial, in a financial filing with the school in December 1992, Dr Wagner reported that she received more than $10,000 from Pfizer, with no further details. A lawyer for the school told Meier that Dr Wagner said Pfizer had paid her $20,500 during the course of the Zoloft trial. But records for payments she received in speaking and consulting fees could not be located.
In September, Dr Wagner’s name was added to the Senator Grassley’s investigative roster, along with Dr John Rush. Between 2000 and 2005, Glaxo alone paid Dr Wagner $160,404, but only $600 was disclosed to the University, according to the Senator. She was also paid over $11,000 in 2002, by Eli Lilly, and that money was not disclosed either. Lilly paid Dr Rush $17,802 in 2001, but he only reported $3,000, Senator Grassley said.
Dr Emslie’s financial trail to the drug makers gained media attention last summer due to his prominent role in the “Texas Childrens Medication Algorithm Project,” and the creation of a drug formularies for children. He was chairman of the panel that wrote guidelines instructing doctors to prescribe SSRIs off-label to kids for depression in 1998. On August 18, 2008, the Dallas Morning News ran the headline: “Conflict of interest fears halt childrens mental health project.”
“A state mental health plan naming the preferred psychiatric drugs for children has been quietly put on hold over fears drug companies may have given researchers consulting contracts, speakers fees or other perks to help get their products on the list,” the News reported. University disclosure forms indicate that Dr Emslie “has made at least $130,000 in drug company speakers fees and consulting contracts since 2002,” the paper noted.
In discussing the investigation of Dr Wagner on the Senate floor, Dr Grassley pointed out that she was a co-author on Paxil Study 329. In 2001, when the study was published, Glaxo “reported paying her $18,255,” he said. “Study 329 was cited in a New York case where GlaxoSmithKline was charged with ‘repeated and persistent fraud,’” the Senator added.
Dr Emslie was also a co-author on the Paxil study and a check of the full list for 329, reveals that 5 of the co-authors appear with Dr Emslie on the guidelines for the “Childrens Medication Algorithm Project,” including Karen Wagner, Boris Birmaher, Barbara Geller, Neil Ryan and Michael Strober. Dr Rush’s name is also on the Texas guidelines but he moved to Singapore last August.

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Total Votes: 134

Okay, so let's start by talking about how this 'poll' is meaningless. We don't know who took it-- patients, docs, random plumbers surfing through. We don't know what experience these people have had with antidepressants-- so the question has different meaning if it's asked to a doc who has only ever prescribed Prozac and Zoloft, then if it's asked to a patient who has been on a long trial of every medication. There's no real head-to-head here, no measures of efficacy, no controls. And I didn't even specify what the efficacy was for: Depression? Anxiety? OCD? Panic? Halitosis? Slipping behind your ear to hold your glasses in place?

Still, we had a clear loser, and I was surprised: Paxil. Few people voted for it's efficacy, many for it's side effects.

I don't start people on Paxil so much anymore: the lore is that it causes more weight gain then the others, and when I do prescribe it, I tell people to get weighed. It may cause weight gain, as an overall risk to populations, but all I care about is if it causes weight gain to my particular patient, and clearly, some people do not gain weight on it. The more concerning thing about Paxil has been the withdrawal syndrome that some people experience and so far I've found that it's manageable, especially if people come off very slowly. Still, all things being equal, these days I may start with something else.

So why was I surprised: I guess I haven't heard a lot of patients complain about side effects, and I have patients who've been on this medicine for some time. It seems to work particularly well, at least that's my impression, for Anxiety, and it seems to be well tolerated, the 'polls' would say otherwise. And for the uninsured, the generic is on Walmart's $4 list (as is Celexa).
Just my thoughts.

And to those who've read yesterday's post about does Facebook wreck your brain: If you read either the original article or the comments to our post, you'll note that the original piece is simply theories that all this computer time may re-wire people; there were no studies, no proof. And as some of our readers pointed out, On-line interactions may well be a segway into the world of Real Life encounters for people who might otherwise hesitate.

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SSRI Paxil deaths and aggression.
(For more info, see ssristories.com)
Adverse Reaction Paxil 2006-05-04 New Jersey Teen Becomes Psychotic
Suicide Paxil 2003-10-23 California Singer Elliott Smith Stabs Self Twice
Murder-Suicide Paxil 1999-11-07 Virginia Man Kills Wife Himself: Lawsuit
Felony Paxil 2001-11-27 Texas Woman Keeps Girl in Chains
Robbery Paxil 2003-08-01 Canada Man Robs Congregation Waving Sword
Arson Vandalism Paxil 2002-04-13 Michigan 15-year-old Sets Fire Vandalizes School
Murder Attempt Paxil 2002-07-05 Canada 16-year-old Attacks A Family
Murder Paxil 2002-08-27 Montana Mom Murders Her Two Childrren
Injury to Child Paxil 2002-09-24 New York 12-Year-Old Driven Insane By Medicine
Bank Robbery Paxil 2002-11-13 Canada Man Dressed as Santa Robs Banks
Road Rage Paxil 2002-10-23 Wales Student Deliberately Crashes Car into Building
Plane Crash Paxil 2003-01-25 Alaska Pilot on Medication: Six Dead
Murder Paxil 2003-01-23 Colorado Grandmother Shakes Baby
Alcohol Craving Paxil 2006-06-18 New York? Social Drinker Becomes a Drunk
Murder Paxil 2002-03-02 Wisconsin Former Corrections Officer Murders Girlfriend
Suicide Paxil 2003-03-12 England Coroner Calls for Drug to be Withdrawn
Suicide Paxil 2006-03-17 England 18 Year Old Girl Dies; Mother Campaigns
Police Called Paxil 2003-04-05 California Wife Worries her Husband Is Going Insane on Medication
Injury to Child Paxil 2003-04-06 New Jersey 14 Year Old Girl Becomes Suicidal Violent : Lawsuit
Murder Paxil 2003-04-13 Indiana Man Murders Two: Lawsuit
Suicide Paxil 2003-02-08 South Carolina Public Safety Director Commits Suicide
Murder Paxil 2003-05-22 Pennsylvania +Young Woman Murders Two People: Made into TV Show
Self-Mutilation Paxil 2003-06-12 England Woman Performs Self-Mutilation While on Medication
Murder Attempt/Suicide Paxil 2001-06-20 Texas Man Attempts Murder Kills Self
Violent Behavior Paxil 2003-06-18 England Woman Attacks Acquaintance
Stabbing Paxil 2003-06-30 New Jersey Postpartum Depression: Wife Stabs Husband
Violence/Bizarre Paxil 2006-08-26 England Neighbor Runs Amok: Tries to Set Police on Fire
Murder Paxil 2003-07-24 New York +Man Shoots NY City Councilman in City Council Chambers
Suicide Attempt Paxil 2001-05-15 New Jersey 14 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide
Suicide by Cop Paxil 2003-08-07 Colorado Woman Attacks Police: Is Killed by Them
Robbery Paxil 2003-08-28 Canada Woman Steals $190,000 to Finance Gambling Habit
Suicide Paxil 2003-10-04 England Teacher Sets Herself on Fire
Suicide Paxil 2003-10-23 Kentucky Young Man Overprescribed on Prescription Drugs
Plane Crash Paxil 2003-11-19 Florida Two Dead in Plane Crash
Murder Paxil 2003-12-04 Texas Man [66 Years Old] Murders Wife
Terrorist Threat Paxil 2004-01-09 California Woman Charged with Terrorist Threat
Murder Paxil 2004-03-10 Florida Mother Kills her 4 Year Old Twin Sons
Suicide Paxil 2004-05-09 Massachusetts Young Man's Dose Increased Prior to his Suicide
Suicide Paxil 2006-06-29 Ohio 19 Year Old Commits Suicide After Drastic Behavioral Change
Murder Paxil 2004-06-26 Tennessee Deputy Shoots Young Man
Child Endangerment Suicide Attempt Paxil 2004-07-03 New York Mother Turns Gas On While Children are Near
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2004-08-26 Michigan Postpartum Depression: Mother Murders Baby Self
Murder Plans Paxil 2004-09-12 Florida 15 Year Old Girl Plans to Kill Mother, Brother Self
Violence Paxil 2004-09-20 Missouri Man Pulls Gun on 3 People
Suicide Paxil 2003-07-23 New York 20 Year Old Jumps from 24th Floor
Workplace Violence/Murder Paxil 2004-09-23 Utah Employee Kills Supervisor
Kidnapping/Assault Paxil 2004-09-30 Ohio Man Kidnaps Wife: Sprays Acid in her Face
Violence Paxil 2004-10-23 Washington DC 10 Year Old Has Violent Incidents at School
Murder Paxil 2004-11-16 New Jersey Blind Man Kills Ex-Girlfriend
Road Rage Murder Paxil 2004-11-24 Oklahoma 64 Year Old Man Kills One in Road Rage Incident
Murder Paxil 2005-01-11 England 16 Year Old Girl Commits Murder: Kills Self in Prison
Suicide Attempt Self-Mutilation Paxil 2005-01-16 Texas 16 Year Old Girl Self Mutilates: Also Attempts Suicide
Murder Paxil 1999-10-16 California +Woman Serial Killer was on Paxil at Time of Murders
Suicide Suicide Attempt Paxil 2000-02-02 Utah Father Kills Self on Paxil: Daughter Attempt Suicide on Paxil
Embezzlement Paxil 2006-01-15 Michigan Large Doses Impairs Judgment
Murder Attempts Paxil 2005-02-09 South Carolina Deputy Deliberately Crashes Car into House of Estranged Wife
Murder Paxil 2004-09-29 North Carolina Man Murders Estranged Wife
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2005-02-26 New Hampshire Mother Kills 6 Year Old Daughter Self
Murder Paxil 2005-03-02 California 16 Year Old Kills his 17 Year Old Brother
Suicide Paxil 2005-04-09 Virginia +14 Year Old Girl Kills Self: Made into TV Show
Murder Paxil 2005-04-26 New York Man Kills Wife Daughter: Attempts to Kill Another Daughter
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2005-05-11 Colorado Mother Kills 2 Sons Self
Suicide Paxil 2005-06-06 Texas Prominent Journalist Kills Self
Birth Defect Paxil 2006-07-28 Texas Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Child Born with Heart Defects
Suicide Paxil 2005-11-28 Tennessee 20 Year Old Shoots Self; Lawsuit Filed
Stand-Off with Police Paxil 2005-07-31 Pennsylvania Woman Has 6 Hour Stand-Off with Police
Road Rage-Murder Paxil 2005-08-05 Massachusetts Man Shoots Father Holding Child
Arson Child Endangerment Paxil 2005-08-12 Illinois Mother Set House on Fire with 6 Year Old Son Inside
Adverse Reaction Paxil 2005-08-25 England Victory for 'Drug Battle' Man
Murder Paxil 2005-10-18 England Man Sentenced to Life After Brutal Murder
Murder Paxil 2005-10-18 California Man Kills Police Officer
Violence Suicide Attempt Paxil 1999-01-05 Michigan 11 Year Old Boy is Violent Suicidal on Paxil
Violence Suicidal Thoughts Paxil 2004-02-01 Maryland Man Has Severe Reaction to Paxil
Suicide Attempt Rages Paxil 2002-03-18 Pennsylvania 9 Year Old Girl Becomes Worse on Meds
Suicide Paxil 2003-12-05 Rhode Island 22 Year Old Woman Kills Self
Murder Paxil 2000-03-06 California 15 Year Old Stabs his Grandmother
Suicide Attempt Paxil 2003-04-18 U.S.A. Man Attempts Suicide
Suicide Paxil 2003-09-02 U.S.A. Woman Hangs Self
Suicide Paxil 2004-09-13 U.S.A. Man Never Diagnosed with Depression Kills Self
Suicide Paxil 2006-05-17 Iowa Drake Freshman Hangs Himself
Violence Paxil 2006-09-12 Global Violence Risk Twice as Likely Among Paxil Users as Among Placebo
Suicide Paxil 2004-02-09 Idaho 12 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Child Endangerment Paxil 2006-09-14 Ohio Mother Drugs her Children
Suicide; Police Stand-Off Paxil 2006-10-12 Connecticut Suicide of Police Sgt After Stand-Off with Fellow Officers
Murder Paxil 2005-09-27 Canada Father Murders Epileptic Son
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2005-05-01 Australia Man Kills Policeman Self
Murder Paxil 2001-04-11 Kentucky Man Kills Four: Wife, her Two Children Mother
Violence Paxil 2000-02-29 Massachusetts Man Assaults Family with Handgun Knife
Air Rage Paxil 2001-08-16 Florida Man Becomes Violent at Airport
Murder Attempt Paxil 1999-08-17 South Carolina Man Set Girlfriend on Fire
Embezzlement Paxil 2006-11-22 New York Man Embezzles $1.2 Million: Paxil Had Been 'Wrongly Prescribed'
Suicide Paxil 1998-01-22 Florida Woman Kills Self: Was Not Depressed: Lawsuit
Suicide Paxil 2006-09-25 California Teen-Age Girl Commits Suicide
Murder Paxil 2000-06-16 Washington Man Murders 70 Year Old Woman
Murder Paxil 2000-04-18 Tennessee 15 Year Old Kills his Father
Suicide Attempt Paxil 2001-07-01 Florida Woman Attempts Suicide on Paxil
Suicide Paxil 2001-06-24 California Woman Film Maker Commits Suicide
Stand-Off with Police Paxil 2001-02-06 Washington Man Dies in Stand-Off with Police
Stabbing Paxil 2007-01-23 New York College Student Faces Up to 4 Years in Prison
Suicide Paxil 2006-12-13 U.S.A. 40 Year Old Husband Father Kills Self
Personality Change Paxil 2002-09-15 U.S.A. Woman Becomes Totally Different Person on Paxil
Violence Paxil 2003-12-15 Ohio Husband Threatens Wife with Knife
Murder Paxil 1997-10-31 New Jersey 15 Year Old Boy Kills 11 Year Old Boy Who Was Selling Cookies Door-To-Door
Robbery/Shooting Paxil 1996-02-28 New York 11 Year Old Goes On Robbery Shooting Spree
Child Endangerment Paxil 2007-02-09 Massachusetts Mother Of 4 Year Old Who Died of Drugs Overdose Was On Paxil
Prowling Peeping Paxil 2007-04-07 Montana School Counselor Appeals his Sentence Based on Paxil Defense
Suicide Paxil 2001-04-15 Connecticut Woman Sues Over Death of Husband
Murder Paxil 1995-03-11 Illinois 14 Year Old Kills his Mother
Murder Paxil 1998-05-17 Virginia Postpartum Depression: Mother Kills her Baby
Murder Paxil 1999-05-11 Florida Woman Kills her Sister: Injures her Father
Road Rage Paxil 2000-06-24 Nevada Man Engages in Road Rage Bizarre Behavior on Paxil
Rage Paxil 1997-09-13 U.S.A. Report of Rage with Paxil: People's Pharmacy
Fraud Paxil 2007-03-30 Tennessee Man Charged with Wire Fraud
Suicide Paxil 2007-04-25 Georgia Antidepressant Dose Doubled: Man Jumps in Front of Train
Alcohol Abuse Paxil 2007-05-01 Global ++Alcohol Abuse is Listed as an Adverse Reaction to Paxil in the Insert
False Accusations Paxil 2007-04-28 North Carolina Woman on Paxil Other Meds Makes False Accusations of Rape
Workplace Violence Paxil 2001-10-12 North Carolina Man Holds Three Fellow Employees Hostage at Duke University
Suicide Paxil 1999-04-01 Utah 17 Year Old Jumps From Freeway Bridge
Suicide Paxil 2007-06-13 Indiana 14 Year Old Commits Suicide: Lawsuit
Suicides Paxil 2007-06-28 Japan Number of Suicide Cases Reported to Health Minister Increases for Those on Paxil
Suicide Paxil 2007-07-06 England Young Woman Kills Self
Suicide Paxil 2007-07-30 Michigan Farmer in Ill Health Shoots Self
Snorting Paxil Paxil 2000-03-21 New York College Students Snort Paxil
Suicide Paxil 2001-11-15 England 19 Year Old Commits Suicide: Parents on Panorama Show: BBC
Suicide Paxil 2004-11-07 England 18 Year Old Begins Self-Mutilation on Paxil: Kills Self
Violence Paxil 2004-11-07 Global ++One Out of Five Paxil Users Surveyed by MIND Reported Violent Behavior
Hostility Paxil 2006-09-11 Global Paxil Users Twice As Likely As Placebo Users to Have a Hostility Event
Suicide Paxil 2007-10-02 New Zealand Coroner Recommends Warnings For SSRIs
Reckless Driving Paxil 2007-10-05 Vermont Man Flips Car Twice: Drives Away: Also Involved Alcohol
Bizarre Behavior Paxil 2007-10-07 California Child With Asperger's Syndrome Becomes Unmanageable on Paxil
Murder Paxil 2006-09-24 Pennsylvania Man Shoots Wife
Murder Paxil 2001-01-19 Utah Man Stabs to Death his Estranged Wife
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2007-11-07 Montana Man Shoots Wife Self: Erratic Use of Paxil
Murder Paxil 2007-12-05 North Carolina Man Shoots Wife Then Neighbor in Middle of Night
Murder Paxil 2007-12-28 California Mother Drowns her 7 Month Old Daughter
Murder Paxil 2008-01-08 Utah Husband Kills Wife At Mormon Church Parking Lot
Murder Paxil 2008-01-20 England Man Kills Wife: Sues Pharmaceutical Company from Prison
Theft Paxil 2008-01-29 Australia Women Not Guilty: 'Out of Character' Behavior
Personal Injury Paxil 2008-01-30 England Man Sues Drug Company for Injuries While on Paxil: Joins Hundreds in Lawsuit
Suicide Paxil 2008-02-03 California 13 Year Old Kills Self: Lawsuit: Dismissed Because of State Law
Murder Paxil 2000-02-29 Oregon Woman Kills Her Husband
Adverse Effects Paxil 2004-10-03 England ++Panorama TV Investigates Paxil's Effects of Aggression, Suicide Withdrawal Syndrome
Assault Paxil 2008-02-21 England 69 Year Old Man Assaults his Physician
Birth Defects Paxil 2008-03-01 Canada Mother Brings Lawsuit on Birth Defects of Daughter
Affair With Minor Paxil 2005-05-14 Wisconsin Male Teacher Has Affair with 15 Year Old Girl
Withdrawal Syndrome Paxil 2008-03-04 Pennsylvania Woman Has Problems Withdrawing from 10 Mg. Paxil
Arson Paxil 2008-03-06 Texas 16 Year Old Burns Down High School
Assault Paxil 2008-03-18 Indiana Man Beats Friend: "Devil Made Him Do It"
Bizarre Behavior Paxil 2008-03-18 England Man Arrested For "Religiously Aggravated Behavior"
Suicide Paxil 2008-03-18 Washington DC Detective Kills Self: Lawsuit
Murder Paxil 2008-04-06 Turkey 21 Year Old Kills Her Mother: National Headlines: Erratic Use of Paxil
Suicide Paxil 2003-10-28 Pennsylvania Woman Kills Self: FDA Pre-Emption Halts Lawsuit Over Antidepressant
Child Endangerment Paxil 2008-04-14 Florida Mother Puts Child in Danger: Also Involved Alcohol
Murder Paxil 2008-04-24 Maine Wife Murders Husband: Became More Agressive When Mixing Alcohol with Paxil
Assault Paxil 2008-04-30 England Man Attacks Police With Ax: Also Involved Alcohol
Hostage Situation Paxil Withdrawal 2007-01-25 New York Police Officer Holds 3 Men Hostage
Death Paxil 12 Psych Drugs 2000-04-18 Connecticut Woman, 30 Year Old, on 12 Psych Drugs Dies
Suicide Paxil Accutane 2005-05-16 Nebraska 16 Year Old Kills Self
Murder Paxil ADHD Drug* 2000-05-18 Washington *Mother Stabs Daughter: Not Guilty by Reason of Drug Induced Insanity
Murder Paxil Effexor 1998-06-16 Australia Husband Murders His Wife
School Hostage Situation Paxil Effexor Antidepressants 2001-04-15 Washington **Teen Holds Classmates Hostage with a Gun
Suicide Paxil Lexapro 2007-03-29 New York Woman Sues Over Husband's Suicide
Suicide Paxil Prozac 2001-05-23 Michigan Sgt. Commander of SWAT Team Kills Self on Antidepressants
Bizarre Behavior Paxil Prozac 2008-01-12 California +Pop Star Britney Spears Exhibits Bizarre Behavior on Paxil
Murder Paxil Prozac 1993-04-02 Oklahoma Student Kills his Piano Teacher
Murder-Suicide Paxil Remeron 1999-03-09 Texas Man Strangles Wife: Shoots Self
Kidnapping Paxil Wellbutrin 2001-10-16 Florida Stranger Kidnaps 7 Year Old Girl
Self-Mutilation Rage Paxil Zoloft 2002-12-15 U.S.A. 17 Year Old Girl Exhibits Bizzare Behavior on Meds
School Shooting Paxil Antidepressant 2004-02-09 New York **Student Shoots Teacher in Leg at School
School Shooting Paxil Antidepressant 2001-03-10 Pennsylvania **14 Year Old GIRL Shoots Wounds Classmate at Catholic School
Adverse Reaction Paxil Withdrawal 2006-08-15 Michigan Young Woman Dependent on Paxil
Adverse Effects Paxil Withdrawal 2007-02-16 England Drug Turns Woman's Life into Nightmare
Murder Paxil WITHDRAWAL 2002-11-14 Texas +15 Year Old Girl Kills 6 Year Old Brother
Robbery Paxil Withdrawal 2003-08-01 Canada Man Robs Church Congregation with Samurai Sword
Suicide Attempt Paxil Withdrawal 2004-08-29 Nebraska Woman Alleges Addiction to Paxil: Lawsuit
Murder Paxil Withdrawal 2005-03-09 Missouri Two Day Withdrawal: Man Kills Kidnaps
Suicide Paxil Withdrawal 2005-04-26 Illinois 77 Year Old Kills Self: Lawsuit
Suicide Paxil Withdrawal 2004-12-02 Texas Woman [Pre-Med Student] Sets Self on Fire
Suicide Attempt Paxil Withdrawal 2001-09-09 Maryland Woman Shoots Self in Head
Suicide Paxil Withdrawal 2006-11-13 Iraq/NewYork Woman Soldier Returns Home from Iraq: 2 Week Withdrawal
Robbery; Bizarre Out of Character Behavior Paxil Withdrawal 2007-02-27 North Carolina Man With No Record Robs Two Banks
Violence/Arson Paxil Withdrawal 2000-08-25 Wisconsin Man Terrorizes Woman Child: Tries to Burn Down Their Apartment
Agoraphobia Paxil Withdrawal 2007-06-17 England Woman Afraid to Go Outside during Paxil Withdrawal: Lawsuit
Murder-Suicide Attempt Paxil Withdrawal 2007-08-30 California Man Kills Wife: Attempts to Kill Self
Life Ruined Paxil Withdrawal 2008-01-19 Pennsylvania Woman's Life is Ruined During Paxil Withdrawal
Psychosis Paxil Withdrawal 2008-01-23 Oregon Women Running for City Council Has Psychotic Break
Injuries Paxil Withdrawal 2008-01-31 Scotland 500 People in Lawsuit Over Paxil Withdrawal
Robbery/Armed Paxil WITHDRAWAL* 2003-08-10 England *Man Cleared of Charges by Using Paxil Defense
Suicide Paxil WITHDRAWAL* 2005-02-01 Canada 16 Year Old: Paxil Still in Body 2 Months After Discontinuing Drug
Murder Paxil WITHDRAWAL: Prozac* 2006-01-20 North Carolina +Father Murders 5 Year Old Twin Daughters: Featured on Oprah Winfrey Show
Murder Paxil* 2002-03-28 Texas 17 Year Old Murders His Friend
Murder-Suicide Paxil* 2001-08-09 Wyoming *Jury Finds Paxil Was Cause of Murder-Suicide
Murder Paxil* 2006-07-13 California Man Murders Wife Has No Memory of It
Murder Attempt Paxil* 2004-07-29 Ohio Husband Stabs Wife
Air Rage Paxil* 2006-01-25 England *Diplomat Cleared of Drinking Charges: Drug Blamed
Murder-Suicide Paxil* 1997-04-14 California +Asian: Father Drowns Two Children: Kills Self: Lawsuit
Embezzlement/Bizarre Behavior Paxil* 2006-11-17 Florida *Not Guilty by Reason of Paxil Induced Insanity
Rape Paxil* 2001-11-15 South Carolina Physician Testifies Paxil Causes Mania With Disinhibition Aggressive Sexuality: Reduces Sentence
Violence Paxil* 2008-01-24 England Man Tries to Set 4 Policemen on Fire: Also Involved Alcohol
Violent Behavior/Death Paxil/Adderall 2006-03-10 Massachusetts Police Forced to Shoot 16 Year Old
Affair With Minor Paxil/Wellbutrin 2004-12-03 Florida +Woman School Teacher Has Affair with 14 Year Old Boy
Suicide Paxil/Wellbutrin 2006-02-13 California Man Hangs Self 3 Days After Paxil

This is long but these are the facts. I myself have attempted suicide three times on the medication paxil when attempting to withdrawal. My son self-mutilated and attempted suicide. We are a family of medical professionals...if we weren't aware......WHO IS? Thus our mission to educate the healthcare facilities.

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One of the best articles ever written regarding Paxil [Seroxat] and GlaxoSmithKline. It was written 2 years ago by Evelyn Pringle, a writer who pulls no punches. If there was any justice in this world, Evelyn would get a Pulitzer for this brilliant article.

Drip Drip Drip - Paxil Info Leaks Out

By Evelyn Pringle

Secrecy agreements in litigation hide information about defective products or a companys negligence, and sometimes go so far as to prohibit the parties from discussing that there ever was a lawsuit. Such is the case with Paxil and as a result, unwitting patients continued to take the drug long after its dangers were known to GlaxoSmithKline.

Many lawsuits filed against Glaxo have been settled out of court, with confidential agreements that prevent the public from knowing about the harmful effects of the Paxil.

Previously sealed documents and internal company memos suppressed with protective orders, prove that Glaxo knew about the problems with Paxil before it received FDA approval, but continued to sell the drug for over a decade without warning consumers.

Long overdue legislation is currently pending in both the US House of Representatives and the Senate known as Sunshine in Litigation Act of 2005, which basically says that a court shall not enter an order restricting the disclosure of information obtained through discovery, an order approving a settlement agreement that would restrict the disclosure of such information, or an order restricting access to court records in a civil case

Glaxo currently faces thousands of lawsuits over Paxil side effects related to addiction, dependence, and a severe withdrawal syndrome.

SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) like Paxil, are not addictive in the sense that an individual would mortgage their livelihoods and all they hold dear for further supplies of the drug, according to Dr David Healy MD, FRCPsych, North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine

SSRIs can hook patients in the sense of making you physically dependent, he explains.

Dr Healy, is considered an expert on Paxil and has had access to confidential studies from the Glaxo archives. The common symptoms of withdrawal, he says, break down into two groups. The first group may be unlike anything you have had before, he warns, to include:

Dizziness Headache Muscle Spasms Tremor Electric Shock-like Sensations Other Strange Tingling or Painful Sensations Nausea, Diarrhoea, Flatulence Dreams, including Vivid Dreams Agitation

The second group overlaps with general nervousness, Dr Healy says, and may lead to you or your physician to think that all you have are features of your original problem. These symptoms include:

Depression Lability of Mood Irritability Agitation Confusion Fatigue/Malaise Flu-like Feelings Insomnia or Drowsiness Mood Swings Sweating Feelings of Unreality Feelings of being Hot or Cold

These symptoms appear in anywhere between 20% to 50% of patients taking SSRIs, Dr Healy says, sometimes within hours of the last dose.

In the class action case against Glaxo settled in 2005, In re: Paxil Products Liability Litigation, MDL No 1574, CD Calif, the plaintiffs were forever silenced by a strict confidentiality clause incorporated into the settlement agreement.

This author obtained a copy of the lawsuits complaint, dated August 23, 2001, as well as a copy of the settlement agreement with a secrecy clause that states in relevant part:

Plaintiffs and their attorneys, will not make any statements, either directly or indirectly, by implication or innuendo, to anyone, including but not limited to consultants, experts, the press or media, concerning the amount or other terms of such settlement or settlements, or the nature and substance of settlement negotiations, or describing or characterizing the settlement in any way.

Plaintiffs and their attorneys will not, either directly or indirectly, publicize the fact of the settlement and that any inquiry into the settlement, its amount, meaning, interpretation or comparative value, or the negotiations leading to the settlement by anyone, including but not limited to the press or media, will be met only by a statement that the case has been resolved, and will decline any requests for interviews by the press or media regarding the settlement, its history or its terms.

The clause even extends the internet specifically in that plaintiffs and attorneys will not maintain and instead will discontinue any website references to Paxil discontinuation or withdrawal.

And, it says, they agree to refrain from any future internet postings regarding Paxil discontinuation or withdrawal.

Paragraph 5 of the lawsuits complaint says that over a 2 years period, plaintiffs' attorneys have been individually contacted by approximately 500 Paxil withdrawal victims.

And, the pain and suffering experienced by each individual is the direct result of Glaxos failure to warn users of Paxils addictive nature, the drug's inducement of physical or psychologic dependency, and its infliction of dependency/withdrawal syndrome when the patient's Paxil dosage is reduced or terminated, the complaint states.

Paragraph 16, lists withdrawal reactions that can summed up as one or more of the following complaints: jolting electric "zaps," dizziness, light headedness, vertigo, incoordination, gait disturbances, sweating, extreme nausea, vomiting, high fever, abdominal discomfort, flu symptoms, anorexia, diarrhea, agitation, tremulousness, irritability, aggression, sleep disturbance, nightmares, tremor, confusion, memory and concentration difficulties, lethargy, malaise, weakness, fatigue, paraesthesias, ataxia, and/or myalgia.

Paragraph 7, says: These reactions are "unexpected" to the victims and even their physicians because the manufacturer has deliberately failed to properly warn of this.Both physician and patient unwittingly use Paxil without knowing the drug's addictive traits, the complaint says.

Paragraph 8, charges that because Glaxo has suppressed the information, patients and physicians are fooled into thinking that the reactions are caused by another condition, such as relapse into depression, thus prompting incorrect and unnecessary medical treatment, including increased dosages of Paxil.

While researchers have acknowledged the potential for withdrawal reactions with all SSRIs, Paxil is by far the worst. Citing data from the World Health Organization, the lawsuits complaint states: Paxil has the highest incidence rate of withdrawal adverse experiences of any antidepressant drug in the world.

Starting in December 2001, Glaxo finally added a minimizing precaution to Paxils label of some possible "discontinuation" side effects affecting "2 percent or greater" of patients based on studies.

However, documents reveal that Glaxo has always known about the withdrawal syndrome. For instance, in 1993, in a report that occurred 5 months after Paxil arrived on the market, Stoker and Eric noted Paxil withdrawal at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in San Francisco, May 22-27, 1993.

The authors of the study conducted 2 week tapering off periods for 186 patients in 6 to 12 week doubled blinded comparative studies. Low dose and high dose groups were studied. Paxil's low dose group actually did worse than the high dose group, suffering 42% withdrawal rate, compared to 38% in the high dose group. And, both occurred even though the tapering off regime was initiated during dosage reduction.

The lawsuits complaint specifically describes close to 10 studies that reveal a high rate of withdrawal symptoms since Paxil came on the market that Glaxo was fully aware of.

A fact well-evidenced in internal company documents. A previously suppressed, May 1, 1997, Glaxo memo to, Paxil Selling Team, on the discontinuation syndrome, defines the withdrawal syndrome as, "a class effect that can occur when an SSRI is stopped abruptly. Symptoms may include asthenia, flu-like symptoms, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, and sleep disturbances (insomnia, vivid dreams or nightmares)."

However, the memo instructs Glaxo sales representatives to avoid using the term and says: "instead of 'withdrawal syndrome,' which implies addictive properties, try to refer to this phenomenon as 'discontinuation symptoms.'"

Eight months later, in a December 1, 1997, "Business Plan Guide," sales representatives were instructed to "minimize concerns surrounding discontinuation symptoms," and told to explain to doctors that the "discontinuation incident rate is two in 1,000 patients."

However, according to a 1997 review, one study found that 25% of patients experienced at least one discontinuation symptoms, verses 5.9% taking a placebo. In another study of patients with major depression, 42% experienced at least 1 discontinuation symptom.

Another internal memo kept hidden with a protective order, states: Discontinuation: why this is an issue, followed by, 97 Seroxat/Paxil sales to end Sept already exceed $1 Billion.

This particular memo carries a cartoon-like picture of a big black money-bag.

In Paxil literature, Glaxo flat-out lied to patients and specifically said that the drug was not addictive. For example, a pamphlet made available at doctors offices and disseminated to patients, asked the question: Is Paxil addictive?

The pamphlet then states: Paxil has been studied both in short-and long-term use and is not associated with dependence or addiction.

The withdrawal syndrome is real and in fact, it is now known that infants of women who take SSRIs in the last 3 months of pregnancy, may experience symptoms of withdrawal, including convulsions, according to a study published in the February 4, 2005 issue of the journal Lancet.

In addition, experts warn against the use of Paxil and other SSRIs with children. According to Fred Baughman Jr, MD, an adult and child neurologist in private practice for 35 years, "most antidepressants have not proved effective in treating depression in children and some studies suggest they may cause some children to become acutely suicidal.

Yet in 2002, Dr Baughman says, nearly 11 million prescriptions for the drugs were given to children, 2.7 million of them to children under 12."

A report by an expert witness, previously sealed with a protective order, reveals how Glaxo concealed and manipulated data concerning Paxil-induced suicidality and how suicide attempts in studies by patients on Paxil were underreported and attempts by people taking a placebo were inflated.

Excerpts from the report were published by psychiatrist, Peter Breggin, MD, in Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, (Volume 8, Spring 2006, pp. 77-84). Dr Breggin is a founder of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) and the author of the Antidepressant Fact Book (2001).

His report also documents how Glaxo hid the incidence of akathisia (agitation with hyperactivity) and stimulation, which he says, are known risk factors for suicidality and violence.

Dr Breggins original report was based on a 3-day review of Glaxos sealed files, and was written for the California case of Lacuzong v GSK, and attached to a July 21, 2001, affidavit submitted in a case filed by the widow of a man who drowned their two children and himself in a tub after taking Paxil for three days.

At Glaxos insistence, the report remained sealed. However, in the more recent case of Moffett v Glaxo, in the US District Court for the South District of Mississippi, the report was filed in the public record.

The drug companies, says Dr Breggin, settle almost all legal cases brought against them in order to seal incriminating scientific data.The publication of a previously sealed medical expert report is a rare event, he explains, the first in my experience.

In the book, The Antidepressant Solution, author Dr Joseph Glenmullen, a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, recommends tapering off antidepressants by following a 5-Step Antidepressant Tapering Program, to reduce both the incidence and severity of withdrawal reactions.

Research has shown that when patients stop antidepressants cold turkey they can have high rates of withdrawal reactions, Dr Glenmullen advises, which vary depending on the particular drug.In studies involving hundreds of patients, 66 percent of patients stopping Paxil, he says, have withdrawal reactions.

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Following the benzodiazepine crisis of the 1980s, psychiatrists and general practitioners turned with relief to the antidepressants, which the Royal Colleges of Psychiatrists General Practitioners assured us and our patients did not cause dependence and were not addictive. I shared this belief. And indeed antidepressants are not addictive in the sense that they lead to altered motivational hierarchies such that an individual would mortgage their livelihoods and all they hold dear for further supplies of the drug. But patients are worried about being on antidepressants and antidepressants can hook in the sense of making you physically dependent.
In the 1960s the concept of therapeutic drug dependence on antipsychotics and antidepressants emerged and it became clear that some individuals might never be able to halt these drugs. Withdrawal from antipsychotics for instance could lead to tardive dyskinesia, which it was later recognised could emerge in the course of treatment(1). The fact that could emerge while still on treatment with drugs that were not euphoriants and did not disrupt motivational hierarchies was completely incompatible with theories of addiction then and now. This, allied to the need to contain the use of opiates, LSD and amphetamines in 1960s, led to an eclipse of the concept of therapeutic drug dependence. Since the 1960s we have had a demonisation of some drugs and glorification of others. The bad drugs are supposedly characterised by dependence even though LSD and other bad drugs do not cause physical dependence. The good drugs are supposed to be free of this problem.
Against this background, therapeutic drug dependence on benzodiazepines provoked a crisis. Patients resented being hooked and resented not being warned about the risks of getting hooked and further resented being blamed as authors of their own misfortune. The emergence of the SSRI antidepressants offered the possibility of an almost compromise.
From 1960 to 1990, the antidepressants were generally prescribed only to severely depressed patients, and in these patients evidence of relapse on discontinuation could often reasonably be seen as evidence of relapse of an illness. This position became harder to maintain in patients who had formerly been cases of Valium but who now became cases of Prozac, Seroxat, Lustral and Effexor. These patients did not have the severe conditions that might have been expected to lead to early relapse on discontinuation. Reports of withdrawal streamed in to regulators.
SSRIs
SSRI stands for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. This does not mean these drugs are selective to the serotonin system or that they are in some sense pharmacologically . It means they have little effect on the norepinephrine/noradrenaline system. There are 6 SSRIs on the market:
Note: Venlafaxine in doses up to 150mg is an SSRI, over 150 mg it also inhibits noradrenaline reuptake.
FEATURES OF WITHDRAWAL/WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS
The common symptoms on withdrawal from SSRIs break down into two groups(2). The first group may be unlike anything you have had before and include:
Dizziness
Headache
Muscle Spasms
Tremor
Electric Shock-like Sensations
Other Strange Tingling or Painful Sensations
Nausea, Diarrhoea, Flatulence
Dreams, including Vivid Dreams
Agitation
The second group overlaps with general nervousness and may lead to you or your physician to think that all you have are features of your original problem. These symptoms include:
Depression
Lability of Mood
Irritability
Agitation
Confusion
Fatigue/Malaise
Flu-like Feelings
Insomnia or Drowsiness
Mood Swings
Sweating
Feelings of Unreality
Feelings of being Hot or Cold
These symptoms appear in anything between 20% to 50% of patients taking SSRIs, sometimes within hours of the last dose. Paroxetine and Venlafaxine appear the most problematic agents at the moment but similar symptoms are liable to occur with all SSRIs and to a lesser extent with tricyclic antidepressants. In milder cases problems may clear up after a week or two, but in others symptoms may continue weeks or months after the last dose and for some patients it may not be possible to stop treatment. Specialist help may benefit some patients in this latter group, if only to provide suggestions on antidotes to continuing drug induced problems such as loss of libido.
IS THIS WITHDRAWAL?
There are three ways to distinguish withdrawal from SSRIs from the nervous problems that the SSRI might have been used to treat in the first instance.
First if the problem begins immediately on reducing or halting a dose or begins within hours or days or perhaps even weeks of so doing then it is more likely to be a withdrawal problem. If the original problem has been treated and you are doing well, then on discontinuing treatment no new problems should show up for several months.
Second if the nervousness or other odd feelings that appear on reducing or halting the SSRI (sometimes after just missing a dose) clear up when you are put back on the SSRI or the dose is put back up, then this also points towards a withdrawal problem rather than a return of the original illness. When original illnesses return, they take a long time to respond to treatment. The relatively immediate response of symptoms on discontinuation to the reinstitution of treatment points towards a withdrawal problem.
Third the features of withdrawal may overlap with features of the nervous problem for which you were first treated - both may contain elements of anxiety and of depression. However withdrawal will also often contain new features not in the original state such as pins and needles, tingling sensations, electric shock sensations, pain and a general flu-like feeling.
Before starting to withdraw, it should be noted that many people will have no problems. Some will have minimal problems, which may peak after a few days before diminishing. Symptoms can remain for some weeks or months. Others will have greater problems but these can be helped by the management plan outlined below.
Finally however there will be a small group of people who are simply unable to stop. It is important to recognise this latter possibility in order to avoid punishing yourself. Specialist help may make a difference for some people in this latter group, if only to provide possible antidotes to attenuate the problems of ongoing SSRIs such as loss of libido.
MANAGEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL
Withdrawal from SSRIs is something to be done in consultation with your physician. You may wish to show this to your GP. Over-rapid withdrawal may even be medically hazardous, particularly in older persons.

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SSRI Paxil deaths and aggression.
(For more info, see ssristories.com)
Adverse Reaction Paxil 2006-05-04 New Jersey Teen Becomes Psychotic
Suicide Paxil 2003-10-23 California Singer Elliott Smith Stabs Self Twice
Murder-Suicide Paxil 1999-11-07 Virginia Man Kills Wife Himself: Lawsuit
Felony Paxil 2001-11-27 Texas Woman Keeps Girl in Chains
Robbery Paxil 2003-08-01 Canada Man Robs Congregation Waving Sword
Arson Vandalism Paxil 2002-04-13 Michigan 15-year-old Sets Fire Vandalizes School
Murder Attempt Paxil 2002-07-05 Canada 16-year-old Attacks A Family
Murder Paxil 2002-08-27 Montana Mom Murders Her Two Childrren
Injury to Child Paxil 2002-09-24 New York 12-Year-Old Driven Insane By Medicine
Bank Robbery Paxil 2002-11-13 Canada Man Dressed as Santa Robs Banks
Road Rage Paxil 2002-10-23 Wales Student Deliberately Crashes Car into Building
Plane Crash Paxil 2003-01-25 Alaska Pilot on Medication: Six Dead
Murder Paxil 2003-01-23 Colorado Grandmother Shakes Baby
Alcohol Craving Paxil 2006-06-18 New York? Social Drinker Becomes a Drunk
Murder Paxil 2002-03-02 Wisconsin Former Corrections Officer Murders Girlfriend
Suicide Paxil 2003-03-12 England Coroner Calls for Drug to be Withdrawn
Suicide Paxil 2006-03-17 England 18 Year Old Girl Dies; Mother Campaigns
Police Called Paxil 2003-04-05 California Wife Worries her Husband Is Going Insane on Medication
Injury to Child Paxil 2003-04-06 New Jersey 14 Year Old Girl Becomes Suicidal Violent : Lawsuit
Murder Paxil 2003-04-13 Indiana Man Murders Two: Lawsuit
Suicide Paxil 2003-02-08 South Carolina Public Safety Director Commits Suicide
Murder Paxil 2003-05-22 Pennsylvania +Young Woman Murders Two People: Made into TV Show
Self-Mutilation Paxil 2003-06-12 England Woman Performs Self-Mutilation While on Medication
Murder Attempt/Suicide Paxil 2001-06-20 Texas Man Attempts Murder Kills Self
Violent Behavior Paxil 2003-06-18 England Woman Attacks Acquaintance
Stabbing Paxil 2003-06-30 New Jersey Postpartum Depression: Wife Stabs Husband
Violence/Bizarre Paxil 2006-08-26 England Neighbor Runs Amok: Tries to Set Police on Fire
Murder Paxil 2003-07-24 New York +Man Shoots NY City Councilman in City Council Chambers
Suicide Attempt Paxil 2001-05-15 New Jersey 14 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide
Suicide by Cop Paxil 2003-08-07 Colorado Woman Attacks Police: Is Killed by Them
Robbery Paxil 2003-08-28 Canada Woman Steals $190,000 to Finance Gambling Habit
Suicide Paxil 2003-10-04 England Teacher Sets Herself on Fire
Suicide Paxil 2003-10-23 Kentucky Young Man Overprescribed on Prescription Drugs
Plane Crash Paxil 2003-11-19 Florida Two Dead in Plane Crash
Murder Paxil 2003-12-04 Texas Man [66 Years Old] Murders Wife
Terrorist Threat Paxil 2004-01-09 California Woman Charged with Terrorist Threat
Murder Paxil 2004-03-10 Florida Mother Kills her 4 Year Old Twin Sons
Suicide Paxil 2004-05-09 Massachusetts Young Man's Dose Increased Prior to his Suicide
Suicide Paxil 2006-06-29 Ohio 19 Year Old Commits Suicide After Drastic Behavioral Change
Murder Paxil 2004-06-26 Tennessee Deputy Shoots Young Man
Child Endangerment Suicide Attempt Paxil 2004-07-03 New York Mother Turns Gas On While Children are Near
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2004-08-26 Michigan Postpartum Depression: Mother Murders Baby Self
Murder Plans Paxil 2004-09-12 Florida 15 Year Old Girl Plans to Kill Mother, Brother Self
Violence Paxil 2004-09-20 Missouri Man Pulls Gun on 3 People
Suicide Paxil 2003-07-23 New York 20 Year Old Jumps from 24th Floor
Workplace Violence/Murder Paxil 2004-09-23 Utah Employee Kills Supervisor
Kidnapping/Assault Paxil 2004-09-30 Ohio Man Kidnaps Wife: Sprays Acid in her Face
Violence Paxil 2004-10-23 Washington DC 10 Year Old Has Violent Incidents at School
Murder Paxil 2004-11-16 New Jersey Blind Man Kills Ex-Girlfriend
Road Rage Murder Paxil 2004-11-24 Oklahoma 64 Year Old Man Kills One in Road Rage Incident
Murder Paxil 2005-01-11 England 16 Year Old Girl Commits Murder: Kills Self in Prison
Suicide Attempt Self-Mutilation Paxil 2005-01-16 Texas 16 Year Old Girl Self Mutilates: Also Attempts Suicide
Murder Paxil 1999-10-16 California +Woman Serial Killer was on Paxil at Time of Murders
Suicide Suicide Attempt Paxil 2000-02-02 Utah Father Kills Self on Paxil: Daughter Attempt Suicide on Paxil
Embezzlement Paxil 2006-01-15 Michigan Large Doses Impairs Judgment
Murder Attempts Paxil 2005-02-09 South Carolina Deputy Deliberately Crashes Car into House of Estranged Wife
Murder Paxil 2004-09-29 North Carolina Man Murders Estranged Wife
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2005-02-26 New Hampshire Mother Kills 6 Year Old Daughter Self
Murder Paxil 2005-03-02 California 16 Year Old Kills his 17 Year Old Brother
Suicide Paxil 2005-04-09 Virginia +14 Year Old Girl Kills Self: Made into TV Show
Murder Paxil 2005-04-26 New York Man Kills Wife Daughter: Attempts to Kill Another Daughter
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2005-05-11 Colorado Mother Kills 2 Sons Self
Suicide Paxil 2005-06-06 Texas Prominent Journalist Kills Self
Birth Defect Paxil 2006-07-28 Texas Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Child Born with Heart Defects
Suicide Paxil 2005-11-28 Tennessee 20 Year Old Shoots Self; Lawsuit Filed
Stand-Off with Police Paxil 2005-07-31 Pennsylvania Woman Has 6 Hour Stand-Off with Police
Road Rage-Murder Paxil 2005-08-05 Massachusetts Man Shoots Father Holding Child
Arson Child Endangerment Paxil 2005-08-12 Illinois Mother Set House on Fire with 6 Year Old Son Inside
Adverse Reaction Paxil 2005-08-25 England Victory for 'Drug Battle' Man
Murder Paxil 2005-10-18 England Man Sentenced to Life After Brutal Murder
Murder Paxil 2005-10-18 California Man Kills Police Officer
Violence Suicide Attempt Paxil 1999-01-05 Michigan 11 Year Old Boy is Violent Suicidal on Paxil
Violence Suicidal Thoughts Paxil 2004-02-01 Maryland Man Has Severe Reaction to Paxil
Suicide Attempt Rages Paxil 2002-03-18 Pennsylvania 9 Year Old Girl Becomes Worse on Meds
Suicide Paxil 2003-12-05 Rhode Island 22 Year Old Woman Kills Self
Murder Paxil 2000-03-06 California 15 Year Old Stabs his Grandmother
Suicide Attempt Paxil 2003-04-18 U.S.A. Man Attempts Suicide
Suicide Paxil 2003-09-02 U.S.A. Woman Hangs Self
Suicide Paxil 2004-09-13 U.S.A. Man Never Diagnosed with Depression Kills Self
Suicide Paxil 2006-05-17 Iowa Drake Freshman Hangs Himself
Violence Paxil 2006-09-12 Global Violence Risk Twice as Likely Among Paxil Users as Among Placebo
Suicide Paxil 2004-02-09 Idaho 12 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Child Endangerment Paxil 2006-09-14 Ohio Mother Drugs her Children
Suicide; Police Stand-Off Paxil 2006-10-12 Connecticut Suicide of Police Sgt After Stand-Off with Fellow Officers
Murder Paxil 2005-09-27 Canada Father Murders Epileptic Son
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2005-05-01 Australia Man Kills Policeman Self
Murder Paxil 2001-04-11 Kentucky Man Kills Four: Wife, her Two Children Mother
Violence Paxil 2000-02-29 Massachusetts Man Assaults Family with Handgun Knife
Air Rage Paxil 2001-08-16 Florida Man Becomes Violent at Airport
Murder Attempt Paxil 1999-08-17 South Carolina Man Set Girlfriend on Fire
Embezzlement Paxil 2006-11-22 New York Man Embezzles $1.2 Million: Paxil Had Been 'Wrongly Prescribed'
Suicide Paxil 1998-01-22 Florida Woman Kills Self: Was Not Depressed: Lawsuit
Suicide Paxil 2006-09-25 California Teen-Age Girl Commits Suicide
Murder Paxil 2000-06-16 Washington Man Murders 70 Year Old Woman
Murder Paxil 2000-04-18 Tennessee 15 Year Old Kills his Father
Suicide Attempt Paxil 2001-07-01 Florida Woman Attempts Suicide on Paxil
Suicide Paxil 2001-06-24 California Woman Film Maker Commits Suicide
Stand-Off with Police Paxil 2001-02-06 Washington Man Dies in Stand-Off with Police
Stabbing Paxil 2007-01-23 New York College Student Faces Up to 4 Years in Prison
Suicide Paxil 2006-12-13 U.S.A. 40 Year Old Husband Father Kills Self
Personality Change Paxil 2002-09-15 U.S.A. Woman Becomes Totally Different Person on Paxil
Violence Paxil 2003-12-15 Ohio Husband Threatens Wife with Knife
Murder Paxil 1997-10-31 New Jersey 15 Year Old Boy Kills 11 Year Old Boy Who Was Selling Cookies Door-To-Door
Robbery/Shooting Paxil 1996-02-28 New York 11 Year Old Goes On Robbery Shooting Spree
Child Endangerment Paxil 2007-02-09 Massachusetts Mother Of 4 Year Old Who Died of Drugs Overdose Was On Paxil
Prowling Peeping Paxil 2007-04-07 Montana School Counselor Appeals his Sentence Based on Paxil Defense
Suicide Paxil 2001-04-15 Connecticut Woman Sues Over Death of Husband
Murder Paxil 1995-03-11 Illinois 14 Year Old Kills his Mother
Murder Paxil 1998-05-17 Virginia Postpartum Depression: Mother Kills her Baby
Murder Paxil 1999-05-11 Florida Woman Kills her Sister: Injures her Father
Road Rage Paxil 2000-06-24 Nevada Man Engages in Road Rage Bizarre Behavior on Paxil
Rage Paxil 1997-09-13 U.S.A. Report of Rage with Paxil: People's Pharmacy
Fraud Paxil 2007-03-30 Tennessee Man Charged with Wire Fraud
Suicide Paxil 2007-04-25 Georgia Antidepressant Dose Doubled: Man Jumps in Front of Train
Alcohol Abuse Paxil 2007-05-01 Global ++Alcohol Abuse is Listed as an Adverse Reaction to Paxil in the Insert
False Accusations Paxil 2007-04-28 North Carolina Woman on Paxil Other Meds Makes False Accusations of Rape
Workplace Violence Paxil 2001-10-12 North Carolina Man Holds Three Fellow Employees Hostage at Duke University
Suicide Paxil 1999-04-01 Utah 17 Year Old Jumps From Freeway Bridge
Suicide Paxil 2007-06-13 Indiana 14 Year Old Commits Suicide: Lawsuit
Suicides Paxil 2007-06-28 Japan Number of Suicide Cases Reported to Health Minister Increases for Those on Paxil
Suicide Paxil 2007-07-06 England Young Woman Kills Self
Suicide Paxil 2007-07-30 Michigan Farmer in Ill Health Shoots Self
Snorting Paxil Paxil 2000-03-21 New York College Students Snort Paxil
Suicide Paxil 2001-11-15 England 19 Year Old Commits Suicide: Parents on Panorama Show: BBC
Suicide Paxil 2004-11-07 England 18 Year Old Begins Self-Mutilation on Paxil: Kills Self
Violence Paxil 2004-11-07 Global ++One Out of Five Paxil Users Surveyed by MIND Reported Violent Behavior
Hostility Paxil 2006-09-11 Global Paxil Users Twice As Likely As Placebo Users to Have a Hostility Event
Suicide Paxil 2007-10-02 New Zealand Coroner Recommends Warnings For SSRIs
Reckless Driving Paxil 2007-10-05 Vermont Man Flips Car Twice: Drives Away: Also Involved Alcohol
Bizarre Behavior Paxil 2007-10-07 California Child With Asperger's Syndrome Becomes Unmanageable on Paxil
Murder Paxil 2006-09-24 Pennsylvania Man Shoots Wife
Murder Paxil 2001-01-19 Utah Man Stabs to Death his Estranged Wife
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2007-11-07 Montana Man Shoots Wife Self: Erratic Use of Paxil
Murder Paxil 2007-12-05 North Carolina Man Shoots Wife Then Neighbor in Middle of Night
Murder Paxil 2007-12-28 California Mother Drowns her 7 Month Old Daughter
Murder Paxil 2008-01-08 Utah Husband Kills Wife At Mormon Church Parking Lot
Murder Paxil 2008-01-20 England Man Kills Wife: Sues Pharmaceutical Company from Prison
Theft Paxil 2008-01-29 Australia Women Not Guilty: 'Out of Character' Behavior
Personal Injury Paxil 2008-01-30 England Man Sues Drug Company for Injuries While on Paxil: Joins Hundreds in Lawsuit
Suicide Paxil 2008-02-03 California 13 Year Old Kills Self: Lawsuit: Dismissed Because of State Law
Murder Paxil 2000-02-29 Oregon Woman Kills Her Husband
Adverse Effects Paxil 2004-10-03 England ++Panorama TV Investigates Paxil's Effects of Aggression, Suicide Withdrawal Syndrome
Assault Paxil 2008-02-21 England 69 Year Old Man Assaults his Physician
Birth Defects Paxil 2008-03-01 Canada Mother Brings Lawsuit on Birth Defects of Daughter
Affair With Minor Paxil 2005-05-14 Wisconsin Male Teacher Has Affair with 15 Year Old Girl
Withdrawal Syndrome Paxil 2008-03-04 Pennsylvania Woman Has Problems Withdrawing from 10 Mg. Paxil
Arson Paxil 2008-03-06 Texas 16 Year Old Burns Down High School
Assault Paxil 2008-03-18 Indiana Man Beats Friend: "Devil Made Him Do It"
Bizarre Behavior Paxil 2008-03-18 England Man Arrested For "Religiously Aggravated Behavior"
Suicide Paxil 2008-03-18 Washington DC Detective Kills Self: Lawsuit
Murder Paxil 2008-04-06 Turkey 21 Year Old Kills Her Mother: National Headlines: Erratic Use of Paxil
Suicide Paxil 2003-10-28 Pennsylvania Woman Kills Self: FDA Pre-Emption Halts Lawsuit Over Antidepressant
Child Endangerment Paxil 2008-04-14 Florida Mother Puts Child in Danger: Also Involved Alcohol
Murder Paxil 2008-04-24 Maine Wife Murders Husband: Became More Agressive When Mixing Alcohol with Paxil
Assault Paxil 2008-04-30 England Man Attacks Police With Ax: Also Involved Alcohol
Hostage Situation Paxil Withdrawal 2007-01-25 New York Police Officer Holds 3 Men Hostage
Death Paxil 12 Psych Drugs 2000-04-18 Connecticut Woman, 30 Year Old, on 12 Psych Drugs Dies
Suicide Paxil Accutane 2005-05-16 Nebraska 16 Year Old Kills Self
Murder Paxil ADHD Drug* 2000-05-18 Washington *Mother Stabs Daughter: Not Guilty by Reason of Drug Induced Insanity
Murder Paxil Effexor 1998-06-16 Australia Husband Murders His Wife
School Hostage Situation Paxil Effexor Antidepressants 2001-04-15 Washington **Teen Holds Classmates Hostage with a Gun
Suicide Paxil Lexapro 2007-03-29 New York Woman Sues Over Husband's Suicide
Suicide Paxil Prozac 2001-05-23 Michigan Sgt. Commander of SWAT Team Kills Self on Antidepressants
Bizarre Behavior Paxil Prozac 2008-01-12 California +Pop Star Britney Spears Exhibits Bizarre Behavior on Paxil
Murder Paxil Prozac 1993-04-02 Oklahoma Student Kills his Piano Teacher
Murder-Suicide Paxil Remeron 1999-03-09 Texas Man Strangles Wife: Shoots Self
Kidnapping Paxil Wellbutrin 2001-10-16 Florida Stranger Kidnaps 7 Year Old Girl
Self-Mutilation Rage Paxil Zoloft 2002-12-15 U.S.A. 17 Year Old Girl Exhibits Bizzare Behavior on Meds
School Shooting Paxil Antidepressant 2004-02-09 New York **Student Shoots Teacher in Leg at School
School Shooting Paxil Antidepressant 2001-03-10 Pennsylvania **14 Year Old GIRL Shoots Wounds Classmate at Catholic School
Adverse Reaction Paxil Withdrawal 2006-08-15 Michigan Young Woman Dependent on Paxil
Adverse Effects Paxil Withdrawal 2007-02-16 England Drug Turns Woman's Life into Nightmare
Murder Paxil WITHDRAWAL 2002-11-14 Texas +15 Year Old Girl Kills 6 Year Old Brother
Robbery Paxil Withdrawal 2003-08-01 Canada Man Robs Church Congregation with Samurai Sword
Suicide Attempt Paxil Withdrawal 2004-08-29 Nebraska Woman Alleges Addiction to Paxil: Lawsuit
Murder Paxil Withdrawal 2005-03-09 Missouri Two Day Withdrawal: Man Kills Kidnaps
Suicide Paxil Withdrawal 2005-04-26 Illinois 77 Year Old Kills Self: Lawsuit
Suicide Paxil Withdrawal 2004-12-02 Texas Woman [Pre-Med Student] Sets Self on Fire
Suicide Attempt Paxil Withdrawal 2001-09-09 Maryland Woman Shoots Self in Head
Suicide Paxil Withdrawal 2006-11-13 Iraq/NewYork Woman Soldier Returns Home from Iraq: 2 Week Withdrawal
Robbery; Bizarre Out of Character Behavior Paxil Withdrawal 2007-02-27 North Carolina Man With No Record Robs Two Banks
Violence/Arson Paxil Withdrawal 2000-08-25 Wisconsin Man Terrorizes Woman Child: Tries to Burn Down Their Apartment
Agoraphobia Paxil Withdrawal 2007-06-17 England Woman Afraid to Go Outside during Paxil Withdrawal: Lawsuit
Murder-Suicide Attempt Paxil Withdrawal 2007-08-30 California Man Kills Wife: Attempts to Kill Self
Life Ruined Paxil Withdrawal 2008-01-19 Pennsylvania Woman's Life is Ruined During Paxil Withdrawal
Psychosis Paxil Withdrawal 2008-01-23 Oregon Women Running for City Council Has Psychotic Break
Injuries Paxil Withdrawal 2008-01-31 Scotland 500 People in Lawsuit Over Paxil Withdrawal
Robbery/Armed Paxil WITHDRAWAL* 2003-08-10 England *Man Cleared of Charges by Using Paxil Defense
Suicide Paxil WITHDRAWAL* 2005-02-01 Canada 16 Year Old: Paxil Still in Body 2 Months After Discontinuing Drug
Murder Paxil WITHDRAWAL: Prozac* 2006-01-20 North Carolina +Father Murders 5 Year Old Twin Daughters: Featured on Oprah Winfrey Show
Murder Paxil* 2002-03-28 Texas 17 Year Old Murders His Friend
Murder-Suicide Paxil* 2001-08-09 Wyoming *Jury Finds Paxil Was Cause of Murder-Suicide
Murder Paxil* 2006-07-13 California Man Murders Wife Has No Memory of It
Murder Attempt Paxil* 2004-07-29 Ohio Husband Stabs Wife
Air Rage Paxil* 2006-01-25 England *Diplomat Cleared of Drinking Charges: Drug Blamed
Murder-Suicide Paxil* 1997-04-14 California +Asian: Father Drowns Two Children: Kills Self: Lawsuit
Embezzlement/Bizarre Behavior Paxil* 2006-11-17 Florida *Not Guilty by Reason of Paxil Induced Insanity
Rape Paxil* 2001-11-15 South Carolina Physician Testifies Paxil Causes Mania With Disinhibition Aggressive Sexuality: Reduces Sentence
Violence Paxil* 2008-01-24 England Man Tries to Set 4 Policemen on Fire: Also Involved Alcohol
Violent Behavior/Death Paxil/Adderall 2006-03-10 Massachusetts Police Forced to Shoot 16 Year Old
Affair With Minor Paxil/Wellbutrin 2004-12-03 Florida +Woman School Teacher Has Affair with 14 Year Old Boy
Suicide Paxil/Wellbutrin 2006-02-13 California Man Hangs Self 3 Days After Paxil

This is long but these are the facts. I myself have attempted suicide three times on the medication paxil when attempting to withdrawal. My son self-mutilated and attempted suicide. We are a family of medical professionals...if we weren't aware......WHO IS? Thus our mission to educate the healthcare facilities.

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Adverse Reaction Paxil 2006-05-04 New Jersey Teen Becomes Psychotic
Suicide Paxil 2003-10-23 California Singer Elliott Smith Stabs Self Twice
Murder-Suicide Paxil 1999-11-07 Virginia Man Kills Wife Himself: Lawsuit
Felony Paxil 2001-11-27 Texas Woman Keeps Girl in Chains
Robbery Paxil 2003-08-01 Canada Man Robs Congregation Waving Sword
Arson Vandalism Paxil 2002-04-13 Michigan 15-year-old Sets Fire Vandalizes School
Murder Attempt Paxil 2002-07-05 Canada 16-year-old Attacks A Family
Murder Paxil 2002-08-27 Montana Mom Murders Her Two Childrren
Injury to Child Paxil 2002-09-24 New York 12-Year-Old Driven Insane By Medicine
Bank Robbery Paxil 2002-11-13 Canada Man Dressed as Santa Robs Banks
Road Rage Paxil 2002-10-23 Wales Student Deliberately Crashes Car into Building
Plane Crash Paxil 2003-01-25 Alaska Pilot on Medication: Six Dead
Murder Paxil 2003-01-23 Colorado Grandmother Shakes Baby
Alcohol Craving Paxil 2006-06-18 New York? Social Drinker Becomes a Drunk
Murder Paxil 2002-03-02 Wisconsin Former Corrections Officer Murders Girlfriend
Suicide Paxil 2003-03-12 England Coroner Calls for Drug to be Withdrawn
Suicide Paxil 2006-03-17 England 18 Year Old Girl Dies; Mother Campaigns
Police Called Paxil 2003-04-05 California Wife Worries her Husband Is Going Insane on Medication
Injury to Child Paxil 2003-04-06 New Jersey 14 Year Old Girl Becomes Suicidal Violent : Lawsuit
Murder Paxil 2003-04-13 Indiana Man Murders Two: Lawsuit
Suicide Paxil 2003-02-08 South Carolina Public Safety Director Commits Suicide
Murder Paxil 2003-05-22 Pennsylvania +Young Woman Murders Two People: Made into TV Show
Self-Mutilation Paxil 2003-06-12 England Woman Performs Self-Mutilation While on Medication
Murder Attempt/Suicide Paxil 2001-06-20 Texas Man Attempts Murder Kills Self
Violent Behavior Paxil 2003-06-18 England Woman Attacks Acquaintance
Stabbing Paxil 2003-06-30 New Jersey Postpartum Depression: Wife Stabs Husband
Violence/Bizarre Paxil 2006-08-26 England Neighbor Runs Amok: Tries to Set Police on Fire
Murder Paxil 2003-07-24 New York +Man Shoots NY City Councilman in City Council Chambers
Suicide Attempt Paxil 2001-05-15 New Jersey 14 Year Old Girl Attempts Suicide
Suicide by Cop Paxil 2003-08-07 Colorado Woman Attacks Police: Is Killed by Them
Robbery Paxil 2003-08-28 Canada Woman Steals $190,000 to Finance Gambling Habit
Suicide Paxil 2003-10-04 England Teacher Sets Herself on Fire
Suicide Paxil 2003-10-23 Kentucky Young Man Overprescribed on Prescription Drugs
Plane Crash Paxil 2003-11-19 Florida Two Dead in Plane Crash
Murder Paxil 2003-12-04 Texas Man [66 Years Old] Murders Wife
Terrorist Threat Paxil 2004-01-09 California Woman Charged with Terrorist Threat
Murder Paxil 2004-03-10 Florida Mother Kills her 4 Year Old Twin Sons
Suicide Paxil 2004-05-09 Massachusetts Young Man's Dose Increased Prior to his Suicide
Suicide Paxil 2006-06-29 Ohio 19 Year Old Commits Suicide After Drastic Behavioral Change
Murder Paxil 2004-06-26 Tennessee Deputy Shoots Young Man
Child Endangerment Suicide Attempt Paxil 2004-07-03 New York Mother Turns Gas On While Children are Near
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2004-08-26 Michigan Postpartum Depression: Mother Murders Baby Self
Murder Plans Paxil 2004-09-12 Florida 15 Year Old Girl Plans to Kill Mother, Brother Self
Violence Paxil 2004-09-20 Missouri Man Pulls Gun on 3 People
Suicide Paxil 2003-07-23 New York 20 Year Old Jumps from 24th Floor
Workplace Violence/Murder Paxil 2004-09-23 Utah Employee Kills Supervisor
Kidnapping/Assault Paxil 2004-09-30 Ohio Man Kidnaps Wife: Sprays Acid in her Face
Violence Paxil 2004-10-23 Washington DC 10 Year Old Has Violent Incidents at School
Murder Paxil 2004-11-16 New Jersey Blind Man Kills Ex-Girlfriend
Road Rage Murder Paxil 2004-11-24 Oklahoma 64 Year Old Man Kills One in Road Rage Incident
Murder Paxil 2005-01-11 England 16 Year Old Girl Commits Murder: Kills Self in Prison
Suicide Attempt Self-Mutilation Paxil 2005-01-16 Texas 16 Year Old Girl Self Mutilates: Also Attempts Suicide
Murder Paxil 1999-10-16 California +Woman Serial Killer was on Paxil at Time of Murders
Suicide Suicide Attempt Paxil 2000-02-02 Utah Father Kills Self on Paxil: Daughter Attempt Suicide on Paxil
Embezzlement Paxil 2006-01-15 Michigan Large Doses Impairs Judgment
Murder Attempts Paxil 2005-02-09 South Carolina Deputy Deliberately Crashes Car into House of Estranged Wife
Murder Paxil 2004-09-29 North Carolina Man Murders Estranged Wife
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2005-02-26 New Hampshire Mother Kills 6 Year Old Daughter Self
Murder Paxil 2005-03-02 California 16 Year Old Kills his 17 Year Old Brother
Suicide Paxil 2005-04-09 Virginia +14 Year Old Girl Kills Self: Made into TV Show
Murder Paxil 2005-04-26 New York Man Kills Wife Daughter: Attempts to Kill Another Daughter
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2005-05-11 Colorado Mother Kills 2 Sons Self
Suicide Paxil 2005-06-06 Texas Prominent Journalist Kills Self
Birth Defect Paxil 2006-07-28 Texas Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Child Born with Heart Defects
Suicide Paxil 2005-11-28 Tennessee 20 Year Old Shoots Self; Lawsuit Filed
Stand-Off with Police Paxil 2005-07-31 Pennsylvania Woman Has 6 Hour Stand-Off with Police
Road Rage-Murder Paxil 2005-08-05 Massachusetts Man Shoots Father Holding Child
Arson Child Endangerment Paxil 2005-08-12 Illinois Mother Set House on Fire with 6 Year Old Son Inside
Adverse Reaction Paxil 2005-08-25 England Victory for 'Drug Battle' Man
Murder Paxil 2005-10-18 England Man Sentenced to Life After Brutal Murder
Murder Paxil 2005-10-18 California Man Kills Police Officer
Violence Suicide Attempt Paxil 1999-01-05 Michigan 11 Year Old Boy is Violent Suicidal on Paxil
Violence Suicidal Thoughts Paxil 2004-02-01 Maryland Man Has Severe Reaction to Paxil
Suicide Attempt Rages Paxil 2002-03-18 Pennsylvania 9 Year Old Girl Becomes Worse on Meds
Suicide Paxil 2003-12-05 Rhode Island 22 Year Old Woman Kills Self
Murder Paxil 2000-03-06 California 15 Year Old Stabs his Grandmother
Suicide Attempt Paxil 2003-04-18 U.S.A. Man Attempts Suicide
Suicide Paxil 2003-09-02 U.S.A. Woman Hangs Self
Suicide Paxil 2004-09-13 U.S.A. Man Never Diagnosed with Depression Kills Self
Suicide Paxil 2006-05-17 Iowa Drake Freshman Hangs Himself
Violence Paxil 2006-09-12 Global Violence Risk Twice as Likely Among Paxil Users as Among Placebo
Suicide Paxil 2004-02-09 Idaho 12 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
Child Endangerment Paxil 2006-09-14 Ohio Mother Drugs her Children
Suicide; Police Stand-Off Paxil 2006-10-12 Connecticut Suicide of Police Sgt After Stand-Off with Fellow Officers
Murder Paxil 2005-09-27 Canada Father Murders Epileptic Son
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2005-05-01 Australia Man Kills Policeman Self
Murder Paxil 2001-04-11 Kentucky Man Kills Four: Wife, her Two Children Mother
Violence Paxil 2000-02-29 Massachusetts Man Assaults Family with Handgun Knife
Air Rage Paxil 2001-08-16 Florida Man Becomes Violent at Airport
Murder Attempt Paxil 1999-08-17 South Carolina Man Set Girlfriend on Fire
Embezzlement Paxil 2006-11-22 New York Man Embezzles $1.2 Million: Paxil Had Been 'Wrongly Prescribed'
Suicide Paxil 1998-01-22 Florida Woman Kills Self: Was Not Depressed: Lawsuit
Suicide Paxil 2006-09-25 California Teen-Age Girl Commits Suicide
Murder Paxil 2000-06-16 Washington Man Murders 70 Year Old Woman
Murder Paxil 2000-04-18 Tennessee 15 Year Old Kills his Father
Suicide Attempt Paxil 2001-07-01 Florida Woman Attempts Suicide on Paxil
Suicide Paxil 2001-06-24 California Woman Film Maker Commits Suicide
Stand-Off with Police Paxil 2001-02-06 Washington Man Dies in Stand-Off with Police
Stabbing Paxil 2007-01-23 New York College Student Faces Up to 4 Years in Prison
Suicide Paxil 2006-12-13 U.S.A. 40 Year Old Husband Father Kills Self
Personality Change Paxil 2002-09-15 U.S.A. Woman Becomes Totally Different Person on Paxil
Violence Paxil 2003-12-15 Ohio Husband Threatens Wife with Knife
Murder Paxil 1997-10-31 New Jersey 15 Year Old Boy Kills 11 Year Old Boy Who Was Selling Cookies Door-To-Door
Robbery/Shooting Paxil 1996-02-28 New York 11 Year Old Goes On Robbery Shooting Spree
Child Endangerment Paxil 2007-02-09 Massachusetts Mother Of 4 Year Old Who Died of Drugs Overdose Was On Paxil
Prowling Peeping Paxil 2007-04-07 Montana School Counselor Appeals his Sentence Based on Paxil Defense
Suicide Paxil 2001-04-15 Connecticut Woman Sues Over Death of Husband
Murder Paxil 1995-03-11 Illinois 14 Year Old Kills his Mother
Murder Paxil 1998-05-17 Virginia Postpartum Depression: Mother Kills her Baby
Murder Paxil 1999-05-11 Florida Woman Kills her Sister: Injures her Father
Road Rage Paxil 2000-06-24 Nevada Man Engages in Road Rage Bizarre Behavior on Paxil
Rage Paxil 1997-09-13 U.S.A. Report of Rage with Paxil: People's Pharmacy
Fraud Paxil 2007-03-30 Tennessee Man Charged with Wire Fraud
Suicide Paxil 2007-04-25 Georgia Antidepressant Dose Doubled: Man Jumps in Front of Train
Alcohol Abuse Paxil 2007-05-01 Global ++Alcohol Abuse is Listed as an Adverse Reaction to Paxil in the Insert
False Accusations Paxil 2007-04-28 North Carolina Woman on Paxil Other Meds Makes False Accusations of Rape
Workplace Violence Paxil 2001-10-12 North Carolina Man Holds Three Fellow Employees Hostage at Duke University
Suicide Paxil 1999-04-01 Utah 17 Year Old Jumps From Freeway Bridge
Suicide Paxil 2007-06-13 Indiana 14 Year Old Commits Suicide: Lawsuit
Suicides Paxil 2007-06-28 Japan Number of Suicide Cases Reported to Health Minister Increases for Those on Paxil
Suicide Paxil 2007-07-06 England Young Woman Kills Self
Suicide Paxil 2007-07-30 Michigan Farmer in Ill Health Shoots Self
Snorting Paxil Paxil 2000-03-21 New York College Students Snort Paxil
Suicide Paxil 2001-11-15 England 19 Year Old Commits Suicide: Parents on Panorama Show: BBC
Suicide Paxil 2004-11-07 England 18 Year Old Begins Self-Mutilation on Paxil: Kills Self
Violence Paxil 2004-11-07 Global ++One Out of Five Paxil Users Surveyed by MIND Reported Violent Behavior
Hostility Paxil 2006-09-11 Global Paxil Users Twice As Likely As Placebo Users to Have a Hostility Event
Suicide Paxil 2007-10-02 New Zealand Coroner Recommends Warnings For SSRIs
Reckless Driving Paxil 2007-10-05 Vermont Man Flips Car Twice: Drives Away: Also Involved Alcohol
Bizarre Behavior Paxil 2007-10-07 California Child With Asperger's Syndrome Becomes Unmanageable on Paxil
Murder Paxil 2006-09-24 Pennsylvania Man Shoots Wife
Murder Paxil 2001-01-19 Utah Man Stabs to Death his Estranged Wife
Murder-Suicide Paxil 2007-11-07 Montana Man Shoots Wife Self: Erratic Use of Paxil
Murder Paxil 2007-12-05 North Carolina Man Shoots Wife Then Neighbor in Middle of Night
Murder Paxil 2007-12-28 California Mother Drowns her 7 Month Old Daughter
Murder Paxil 2008-01-08 Utah Husband Kills Wife At Mormon Church Parking Lot
Murder Paxil 2008-01-20 England Man Kills Wife: Sues Pharmaceutical Company from Prison
Theft Paxil 2008-01-29 Australia Women Not Guilty: 'Out of Character' Behavior
Personal Injury Paxil 2008-01-30 England Man Sues Drug Company for Injuries While on Paxil: Joins Hundreds in Lawsuit
Suicide Paxil 2008-02-03 California 13 Year Old Kills Self: Lawsuit: Dismissed Because of State Law
Murder Paxil 2000-02-29 Oregon Woman Kills Her Husband
Adverse Effects Paxil 2004-10-03 England ++Panorama TV Investigates Paxil's Effects of Aggression, Suicide Withdrawal Syndrome
Assault Paxil 2008-02-21 England 69 Year Old Man Assaults his Physician
Birth Defects Paxil 2008-03-01 Canada Mother Brings Lawsuit on Birth Defects of Daughter
Affair With Minor Paxil 2005-05-14 Wisconsin Male Teacher Has Affair with 15 Year Old Girl
Withdrawal Syndrome Paxil 2008-03-04 Pennsylvania Woman Has Problems Withdrawing from 10 Mg. Paxil
Arson Paxil 2008-03-06 Texas 16 Year Old Burns Down High School
Assault Paxil 2008-03-18 Indiana Man Beats Friend: "Devil Made Him Do It"
Bizarre Behavior Paxil 2008-03-18 England Man Arrested For "Religiously Aggravated Behavior"
Suicide Paxil 2008-03-18 Washington DC Detective Kills Self: Lawsuit
Murder Paxil 2008-04-06 Turkey 21 Year Old Kills Her Mother: National Headlines: Erratic Use of Paxil
Suicide Paxil 2003-10-28 Pennsylvania Woman Kills Self: FDA Pre-Emption Halts Lawsuit Over Antidepressant
Child Endangerment Paxil 2008-04-14 Florida Mother Puts Child in Danger: Also Involved Alcohol
Murder Paxil 2008-04-24 Maine Wife Murders Husband: Became More Agressive When Mixing Alcohol with Paxil
Assault Paxil 2008-04-30 England Man Attacks Police With Ax: Also Involved Alcohol
Hostage Situation Paxil Withdrawal 2007-01-25 New York Police Officer Holds 3 Men Hostage
Death Paxil 12 Psych Drugs 2000-04-18 Connecticut Woman, 30 Year Old, on 12 Psych Drugs Dies
Suicide Paxil Accutane 2005-05-16 Nebraska 16 Year Old Kills Self
Murder Paxil ADHD Drug* 2000-05-18 Washington *Mother Stabs Daughter: Not Guilty by Reason of Drug Induced Insanity
Murder Paxil Effexor 1998-06-16 Australia Husband Murders His Wife
School Hostage Situation Paxil Effexor Antidepressants 2001-04-15 Washington **Teen Holds Classmates Hostage with a Gun
Suicide Paxil Lexapro 2007-03-29 New York Woman Sues Over Husband's Suicide
Suicide Paxil Prozac 2001-05-23 Michigan Sgt. Commander of SWAT Team Kills Self on Antidepressants
Bizarre Behavior Paxil Prozac 2008-01-12 California +Pop Star Britney Spears Exhibits Bizarre Behavior on Paxil
Murder Paxil Prozac 1993-04-02 Oklahoma Student Kills his Piano Teacher
Murder-Suicide Paxil Remeron 1999-03-09 Texas Man Strangles Wife: Shoots Self
Kidnapping Paxil Wellbutrin 2001-10-16 Florida Stranger Kidnaps 7 Year Old Girl
Self-Mutilation Rage Paxil Zoloft 2002-12-15 U.S.A. 17 Year Old Girl Exhibits Bizzare Behavior on Meds
School Shooting Paxil Antidepressant 2004-02-09 New York **Student Shoots Teacher in Leg at School
School Shooting Paxil Antidepressant 2001-03-10 Pennsylvania **14 Year Old GIRL Shoots Wounds Classmate at Catholic School
Adverse Reaction Paxil Withdrawal 2006-08-15 Michigan Young Woman Dependent on Paxil
Adverse Effects Paxil Withdrawal 2007-02-16 England Drug Turns Woman's Life into Nightmare
Murder Paxil WITHDRAWAL 2002-11-14 Texas +15 Year Old Girl Kills 6 Year Old Brother
Robbery Paxil Withdrawal 2003-08-01 Canada Man Robs Church Congregation with Samurai Sword
Suicide Attempt Paxil Withdrawal 2004-08-29 Nebraska Woman Alleges Addiction to Paxil: Lawsuit
Murder Paxil Withdrawal 2005-03-09 Missouri Two Day Withdrawal: Man Kills Kidnaps
Suicide Paxil Withdrawal 2005-04-26 Illinois 77 Year Old Kills Self: Lawsuit
Suicide Paxil Withdrawal 2004-12-02 Texas Woman [Pre-Med Student] Sets Self on Fire
Suicide Attempt Paxil Withdrawal 2001-09-09 Maryland Woman Shoots Self in Head
Suicide Paxil Withdrawal 2006-11-13 Iraq/NewYork Woman Soldier Returns Home from Iraq: 2 Week Withdrawal
Robbery; Bizarre Out of Character Behavior Paxil Withdrawal 2007-02-27 North Carolina Man With No Record Robs Two Banks
Violence/Arson Paxil Withdrawal 2000-08-25 Wisconsin Man Terrorizes Woman Child: Tries to Burn Down Their Apartment
Agoraphobia Paxil Withdrawal 2007-06-17 England Woman Afraid to Go Outside during Paxil Withdrawal: Lawsuit
Murder-Suicide Attempt Paxil Withdrawal 2007-08-30 California Man Kills Wife: Attempts to Kill Self
Life Ruined Paxil Withdrawal 2008-01-19 Pennsylvania Woman's Life is Ruined During Paxil Withdrawal
Psychosis Paxil Withdrawal 2008-01-23 Oregon Women Running for City Council Has Psychotic Break
Injuries Paxil Withdrawal 2008-01-31 Scotland 500 People in Lawsuit Over Paxil Withdrawal
Robbery/Armed Paxil WITHDRAWAL* 2003-08-10 England *Man Cleared of Charges by Using Paxil Defense
Suicide Paxil WITHDRAWAL* 2005-02-01 Canada 16 Year Old: Paxil Still in Body 2 Months After Discontinuing Drug
Murder Paxil WITHDRAWAL: Prozac* 2006-01-20 North Carolina +Father Murders 5 Year Old Twin Daughters: Featured on Oprah Winfrey Show
Murder Paxil* 2002-03-28 Texas 17 Year Old Murders His Friend
Murder-Suicide Paxil* 2001-08-09 Wyoming *Jury Finds Paxil Was Cause of Murder-Suicide
Murder Paxil* 2006-07-13 California Man Murders Wife Has No Memory of It
Murder Attempt Paxil* 2004-07-29 Ohio Husband Stabs Wife
Air Rage Paxil* 2006-01-25 England *Diplomat Cleared of Drinking Charges: Drug Blamed
Murder-Suicide Paxil* 1997-04-14 California +Asian: Father Drowns Two Children: Kills Self: Lawsuit
Embezzlement/Bizarre Behavior Paxil* 2006-11-17 Florida *Not Guilty by Reason of Paxil Induced Insanity
Rape Paxil* 2001-11-15 South Carolina Physician Testifies Paxil Causes Mania With Disinhibition Aggressive Sexuality: Reduces Sentence
Violence Paxil* 2008-01-24 England Man Tries to Set 4 Policemen on Fire: Also Involved Alcohol
Violent Behavior/Death Paxil/Adderall 2006-03-10 Massachusetts Police Forced to Shoot 16 Year Old
Affair With Minor Paxil/Wellbutrin 2004-12-03 Florida +Woman School Teacher Has Affair with 14 Year Old Boy
Suicide Paxil/Wellbutrin 2006-02-13 California Man Hangs Self 3 Days After Paxil

This is long but these are the facts. I myself have attempted suicide three times on the medication paxil when attempting to withdrawal. My son self-mutilated and attempted suicide. We are a family of medical professionals...if we weren't aware......WHO IS? Thus our mission to educate the healthcare facilities.

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To be a journalist, says Alison Bass (AMST), ve got to have thick skin. first book, Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and A Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, published in June, details her in-depth investigation of corruption in the pharmaceutical industry. The book marks the continuation of a diverse journalistic career that Bass launched writing theater reviews for the Justice while a Brandeis student.
Side Effects follows the lives of Rose Firestein, the lead attorney in the New York State attorney generals lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, and Donna Howard, former assistant administrator in the department of psychiatry at Brown University. The two women exposed years of corruption and deception at GlaxoSmithKline, the company that manufactures Paxil, an anti-depressant prescribed to children and adults across the United States.
Bass describes the unlikely series of events that led her to unearth a history of corrupt practices at GlaxoSmithKline. While a medical and mental health columnist for the Boston Globe during the 1990s, Bass would periodically receive tips from people wanting to report unethical medical practices.
I first made the acquaintance with Donna Howard when she came forward as an anonymous source, Bass says.
She came forward later, on the record, and told me about what was going on with Martin Keller, [chief of psychiatry] at Brown University, who was collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars coming from the state mental health agency for research that wasnt being conducted.
Not only was Keller collecting an enormous amount of money, he was also submitting data that made Paxil look safer and more effective than it really was.
Still, Bass admits that it was several years before she recognized the import of Howards complaint. In 2004, after shed already left the Boston Globe, Bass read about the New York State attorney generals lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline.
The New York State attorney generals Office basically sued GlaxoSmithKline for deceiving doctors and consumers about the safety and effectiveness of Paxil, Bass explains, and as it turns out one of the studies that was in the lawsuit was the study that Martin Keller had done back in the 90s that Donna Howard had told me about.
Intrigued by the courageous efforts of Howard and Firestein, Bass realized, Wow! There are two remarkable women in this story, … and this would make a great book. So I started doing the research then.
Although shed been interested in journalism since she was a student at Brandeis, Bass only became curious about the specific fields of medical and mental health journalism after reading Daniel Keyes The Minds of Billy Mulligan, a book about a young man with multiple personality disorder who suffered extensive abuse as a child.
The book, Bass says, opened my eyes to what child abuse can do to a brain, to a persons mind.
Throughout the course of her career at the Boston Globe, Bass often received tips similar to Howards that prompted her investigations into the fields of science and medicine.
Her investigative series on psychiatrists who sexually abused their patients, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1993, was inspired by a tip she received from a woman claiming to have been sexually abused by her psychiatrist.
Here was a woman, a cancer patient, who was going to a psychiatrist to deal with the emotional [consequences] of being diagnosed with cancer, Bass explains, and her psychiatrist said that sex would be good for her, it would be part of her treatment, which was totally, horribly exploitative.
Upon looking into the womans complaint, Bass discovered that this particular psychiatrist was having sex with several patients and that a surprising number of psychiatrists were guilty of some form of sexual abuse.
Bass has also written a number of investigative pieces that have shed light on social issues including spousal abuse and murder.
Her Boston Globe column on divorce and marital communication styles marked some of the first research into the topic of nonphysical marital conflict.
It used to be conventional wisdom that if you fought a lot with your husband, then that made a bad marriage and that would lead to divorce, Bass explains.
Her investigations, however, led her to discover that sometimes people who didnt fight at all or didnt communicate at all-that did hurt their marriage.
Bass also published a Boston Globe column that discussed the reasons why men are more likely than women to murder their spouses. The investigation began when a man named Charles Stuart had killed his pregnant wife and tried to blame it on an African-American man, and it turned out that [Stuart] had done it, Bass explains.
Ultimately, Bass discovered a fundamental difference between the ways men and women cope with anger.
When men are angry and have been abused, like many of these serial killers have, they turn their rage outward and kill women, Bass says, while women, when they are abused, turn their rage inward. And they tend to hurt themselves; they self-mutilate and try to kill themselves.
Although shes now a hardened investigative journalist, Bass was a bit hesitant in her initial approach to journalism.
I was going to be an actress [when I entered Brandeis], Bass recalls, and so I majored in theater my freshman and sophomore year and started doing theater reviews for the Justice.
Eventually, after she began writing News and Features articles, Bass realized she wanted to become a journalist and switched her major to English.
Working for the Justice helped cement my interest in journalism, Bass confirms.
While a Brandeis student, Bass spent her summers interning for the Daily Spirit, a local paper in her hometown of Philadelphia. After graduation, she worked for a number of publications, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Technology Review, the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice and Psychology Today.
For the past four years, Bass has taught journalism and American studies courses at Brandeis; she is also a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Mount Holyoke University. This year, she is teaching Digital and Multimedia Journalism and Health and Science Journalism at Brandeis, in addition to Introduction to Journalism, Digital and Multimedia Journalism and Health and Science Journalism at Mount Holyoke.
Students appreciate that Bass is able to supplement the curriculum with insights from her journalistic experience.
Jenna Berger 09 says she particularly enjoys Bass personal anecdotes and views on how contemporary journalists are adapting to technology.
For Bradley Stern 10, its helpful to receive a professional opinion on creating blogs from someone with such an extensive journalistic background.
Since her days as a Brandeis student during the end of the hippie generation and the beginning of the apathetic generation, Bass says it seems that todays student body is more intelligent and diverse than she remembers.
Bass professorship affords her insight she didnt have while a Brandeis student. When asked what she realizes now as a professor that she didnt as a student, Bass responds, The teachers are really on your side. They want you to succeed.s note: Jenna Berger 09 is a staff writer for Arts.

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"My problem is this: It is now nearly three months since I stopped taking the Zoloft. Once the "physical" signs of withdrawal began to diminish (e.g., I haven't needed to take anything to sleep for three weeks now; I no longer experience the "itching" or the "passing-out sensation followed by muscle spasms") -- now, however, I seem to be mired in one of the worst depressions of my life. I've put on somewhere between 10-15 pounds over the past two months. My energy is low; I feel like I'm slogging through water much of the time. Basically, I'm sure I have all the classic symptoms of major depression, including powerful feelings of anguish, rage, and hopelessness -- except, thanks to many years working with a wonderful therapist and my own insight into antidepressants, I also recognize the perhaps iatrogenic nature of all this and am trying to ride it out, not to take it too personally."

Re:Effects after long-term use (Dec 5th posting).


"I was placed on the following drugs over a period of nearly 8 years. They were all prescribed by an expert in the study of depression, who I had appointments with at a university hospital over the complete time period. All my efforts to describe the side-effects to him were ineffectual, interrupted and over-ruled. The usual response was 'That's not the way it is...' and 'You must accept that...' :-

1. Prozac (years 1-4 approx):

Twitching - so severe that at night I lay and my entire body twanged like a plucked guitar string. In the day I would sit on my hands to stop the twitching, only for it to travel upwards to my shoulders.

Insomnia - immediate and dreadful, never lessened (despite being put on temazapan). Lack of sleep was to become a perpetual nightmare, yet it was never a problem pre-drug (when I over-slept).

Dreams - disappeared, what snatched hours of sleep I got were dreamless chasms.

Weight Gain - steady. I was probably about 8 and bit stone to start with (and had NO eating or weight problems at all, I never even weighed myself).

Tiredness/Lethargy - Constant. It took everything I had to stay on my feet for a few hours, when my head finally started to rock I could usually make it to a bed, but if I didn't manage to get under the duvet on the first attempt, then I just stayed sprawled because I couldn't make my limbs work for long enough before sleep/unconsciousness claimed me for the next 2-3 hours. After which, the insomnia kicked in, and off we went again on the same vicious merry-go-round.

Numbness - emotional. Vey quick. Peviously I was probably near-empathic (too many years of having to accurately 'read' people); cared too much; felt too much; saw too much. Prozac reduced me to a couldn't-care-less vegetable.

Tremor - hands.

Sexual Problems - inability to orgasm.

Staggering - often lurched when walking.

Yawning - endless fits. Jaw ached.

Concentration - short-term declined rapidly. The ability to continue the hobbies that had survived 25 years of undiagnosed critical depression was destroyed. Every particle of willpower was now required simply to put one foot in front of the other. Ability to focus and comprehend what people were saying in general conversation declined (never a pre-drug problem). Ability to THINK virtually destroyed. Ability to 'read' people, destroyed.

Self-mutilation - started almost immediately, yet I had NEVER cut myself before in my life.

Suicidal - I had always been suicidal (thought it was the norm), but the 'want' and the 'action' were completely separate i.e. death was always a very attractive proposition, but I wasn't going to kill myself. This changed within 6 weeks, it brought the two together probably explains why the self-mutilation started. I have never in my life experienced the like of it: the depths of blackness into which the slightest trigger or stress would drop me, the effort it took to stave off suicide, the severity and length of the battles to keep me breathing.

Socially - Didn't want to see a soul. Previously I had kept a small number of social contacts going throughout the years. Not any longer. My smile disappeared, my conversation stilted, and finally I just shut social contact down.

Verbally - ability to form coherent sentences declined. Developed verbal diarrhoea, and a tendency to repeat myself incessantly. Pre-drug I was concise, eloquent and to-the-point.

I sum up these years as being a 'twitching insomniaced zombie.' Probably used-up all willpower in trying to keep breathing and moving.


2. Citalopram (Years 4-6)

All of the above continued unabated. I tried to stop taking the drug, but ended up worse (difficult, but definitely achieved), was castigated and told to continue with the tablets.

3. Mirtazapine (Years 6-7/8)

After going to my GP, almost literally on my knees, and in total desperation, I babbled out some of the above to her. Unbeknownst, she then wrote to the specialist - who was not best pleased - but at last he decided to move away from these SSRIs. Unfortunately it was onto Mirtazapine.

Very quickly I became hostile. Hostile to everyone and everything. At the first appointment after the switch to this drug I attempted to impart the details, only to be interrupted with 'That's the disease, not the drug.' End of subject. Strange that I had always been a kind, quiet, gentle soul prior to this drug (discounting the zombie SSRI years). Even stranger that now I found my first impulses were to spout foul language, to be aggressive, to think of hitting killing others, to go from the numbed emotions of the SSRIs to the lack of emotion altogether. The weight gain increased (I was now well over 13 stone, and waddled erratically). Sleep and tiredness problems continued. The twitching died down. I remained as suicidal as on the SSRIs. Knowing that I would not last much longer I spent my money on a holiday. I was right. About five months later I attempted suicide. After coming out of the hospital (a fascinating experience, I now know why you make damn sure a second suicide attempt works), I immediately started to reduce the mirtazapine, and over the next month weaned myself gradually off it (I learnt my lesson the hard way with the citalopram). Once off the drug I went to my GP (the one medical professional who had listened to me, and interestingly enough, the only non-specialist). She agreed with me. She wrote to inform the Professor at the university hospital that I would not be returning.

After Effects that still remain (4 years later): short-term memory completely shot; ability to concentrate virtually non-existent; cannot orgasm (since the first couple of months of the Prozac, so that makes it well over 11 years, folks); lethagy and tiredness not as bad as on drugs, but far worse than pre-drug; I tend to stagger now and then when very tired; I still have insomnia (but not as bad as on drugs); I don't dream very much - pre-drug I used to dream a lot - now sleep is mainly blank nothingness; when tired I occasionally find my right foot twitching; the level of suicidability is dramatically reduced, yet comparative to pre-drug it is bad; the desire to spout foul language, the aggression and utter hostility remain, and they are not greatly reduced. It is this that I find most appalling. After doing a search on MEDLINE I find that this effect has since been documented; the desire to self-mutilate remains, but so far I have fought it successfully; the triggers/stressors required to take me 'to the depths' are less than on the drugs BUT much greater than prior to them; emotionally I am dead, there is nothing left but uncaring disconnected blankness. Quite truthfully, I don't give a flying about anyone or anything, and going through all but the most basic motions is now beyond me. Pre-drug I felt too much, and filtered out in order to exist in the maelstrom. Now I clamp down on a vicious tongue, and inspect people with brutal calculation and total disinterest (myself among them). The verbal diarrhoea remains. The social isolation remains.

The person I was, pre-drug, no longer exists. I would happily give up my right arm - or whatever pound of flesh was the price - if it could get me back to that person. And yet that was an individual who was considered so ill, that my GP immediately referred me to 'the top'. It was a piece of cake, compared to this.

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Evelyn PringleIt would be difficult to find a better career than employment as a GlaxoSmithKline attorney, especially if job security is a top priority. Not a year goes by when the company is not doling out millions of dollars to defend against charges involving corporate misconduct of one kind or another.
A limited review of the companys involvement in the legal system over just the last five years reveals a clear pattern of habitual corruption. However, although Glaxo has paid billions of dollars in accumulated fines, penalties and awards to plaintiffs in civil cases, not one company official has been arrested and charged with a crime.
Glaxos latest escapade was revealed on October 5, 2006, when Bloomberg News reported that Glaxo conducted a recall of Paxil CR, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant, last month because some of the pills may lack an active ingredient, but that the company did not warn patients who may be taking the useless pills.
Doctors told Bloomberg that patients who either abruptly stop taking Paxil or get inactive pills, can face the risk of suicidal thoughts, shooting pains and flu like symptoms.
The Paxil CR pills are the highest dose sold, and can cause severe withdrawal symptoms, according to Dr Stephen Ellen, a psychiatrist from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. If it is true that patients might have gotten dummy pills without knowing it, it is outrageous, he said.
According to Glaxo, the FDA knew about the problem and approved the limited recall plan, but FDA spokeswoman, Susan Cruzan, told Bloomberg that she did not know the details of the September Paxil CR recall.
This incident is even more outrageous because back on March 4, 2005, the government cited Glaxo for the exact same wrongdoing when the FDA and the Department of Justice initiated the seizure of Paxil CR tablets after Glaxo failed to meet the standards laid out by the FDA to ensure product safety, strength, quality and purity.
Among the violations noted then by the FDA, was the finding that the tablets could split apart and patients could receive a portion of the tablets that lacks any active ingredient, or alternatively a portion that contains active ingredient and does not have the intended controlled-release effect.
The seizures followed warrants issued by the U.S. District Courts for the District of Puerto Rico and the Eastern District of Tennessee and were executed by the U.S. Marshals Service at Glaxos Cidra, Puerto Rico manufacturing facility, its Knoxville, Tennessee distribution facility, and a Puerto Rico distribution center.
The FDA said that Glaxo had voluntarily recalled some of the affected lots of Paxil CR but had failed to recall all of the affected lots and that failure resulted in the seizures by federal authorities.
FDA and the Department of Justice will not allow drug manufacturers to ignore our high public health standards for drug manufacturing, said John Taylor, FDA Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs in a statement released by the agency at the time.
Once we discover a company is not following the standards, which were created to ensure safety and quality, we expect them to correct the deficiencies in an expedited manner, Mr Taylor stated.
American consumers, he said, deserve the best health care products on the market today, and companies that are not adhering to these standards cannot assure FDA and American consumers of the quality of their products.
A month and a half later, on April 28, 2005, the FDA announced that Glaxo had signed a consent decree to correct the manufacturing deficiencies at its Cidra, Puerto Rico facility.
However, the consent decree required Glaxo to post a penal bond of $650,000,000 contingent upon either successfully reconditioning the drugs seized in March 2005, or destroying them and paying the costs to the government.
To resolve the matter, Glaxo supposedly recalled all of the lots of Paxil CR made before November 2004, and agreed to an independent quality review of the manufacturing.
But now here we are in October 2005, with Glaxo still putting patients at risk due to the exact same wrongdoing.
When it comes to civil lawsuits against Glaxo, a steady stream of cases have been filed as a result of Glaxos concealment of the known dangers associated with Paxil, including an increased risk of suicide, birth defects, violence and withdrawal syndrome.
But the companys most egregious conduct, many critics say, in light of all the serious adverse effects now linked to Paxil, was the concealment of the fact that with many patients, and especially children and adolescents, Paxil does not even work.
Glaxo has clearly put profits over patients when marketing Paxil. While concealing clinical trials that showed Paxil was ineffective and could cause children to commit suicide, according to New York state Attorney General, Elliott Spitzer, Glaxo raked in $55 million by selling Paxil to adolescents and children in 2002 alone, when more than two million prescriptions were written for pediatric patients.
The Los Angeles based Baum Hedlund law firm is handling lawsuits involving Paxil related child suicides. On March 23, 2006, the firm filed a national class action lawsuit against Glaxo on behalf of the mother of Trevor Blain, an 11-year old Kansas boy who committed suicide after being prescribed Paxil, and Tonya Brooks from Texas who attempted suicide while taking Paxil.
Trevor Blain was prescribed Paxil for separation anxiety disorder in October 2000 and he immediately began having angry outbursts and sleeping problems. However being the side effects of Paxil were not discussed with his parents, they did not realize that the troubling behavior could be linked to the drug.
Trevor continued to take Paxil until early November 2000, when he hanged himself in the family laundry room using his dogs leash. After the suicide attempt, Trevor remained in a coma until he died on December 7, 2000.
Plaintiff Tonya Brooks, age 17, was prescribed Paxil in 2004 after being diagnosed with social anxiety disorder. She too became agitated, aggressive and had sleep problems but was unaware that she might be experiencing the adverse effects from Paxil.
Tonya first attempted suicide by taking an overdose of Paxil and Ambien, a sleeping medication, and when that attempt was unsuccessful, she took a pair of scissors and gouged a hole in her leg two days later and was hospitalized for several days.
The two named plaintiffs in the case seek to represent all individuals under the age of 18 in the US who attempted suicide while taking Paxil, or the families of individuals who killed themselves while taking the drug.
The lawsuits claims against Glaxo include fraud, negligence, strict liability and breach of warranty.
The Baum Hedlund firm has been handling SSRI lawsuits since 1990, and served on the Plaintiffs Steering Committee in the first suicide related case involving Prozac, the first SSRI approved by the FDA.
Baum Hedlund partner, Karen Barth Menzies leads the firms SSRI Department and was Lead Counsel for the Plaintiffs Steering Committee in Paxil Products Liability Litigation.
Ms Menzies advocacy efforts on behalf of SSRI suicide victims have not been limited to the legal arena. She has also testified on the matter before the California State Assembly and the FDAs psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee and has met with members of Congress from both the House of Representatives and the Senate regarding the risk of SSRI induced suicidality.
The firm is also now handling Paxil birth defect litigation. On July 28, 2006, Baum Hedlund filed a lawsuit on behalf of the parents of Adrian Vasquez, who was born with life-threatening birth defects on April 19, 2004, as a result of his mother unwittingly taking Paxil during pregnancy.
Adrian was born with congenital heart defects and since eight days old, he has undergone three open heart surgeries in an attempt to repair the heart defects. He will also likely have to undergo more surgeries in the future and possibly a heart transplant at some point.
The lawsuit alleges that Glaxo, “by directly and indirectly advertising, marketing, and promoting Paxil for the treatment of women during pregnancy and by placing this drug in the stream of commerce knowing that Paxil would be prescribed to pregnant women in reliance upon the representations … that Paxil was safe and effective for the treatment of women during pregnancy and without significant risk to the fetus.”
The complaint also alleges that Glaxo “did not timely warn the medical community and consumers generally that taking Paxil during pregnancy is associated with a significant increased risk of birth defects and abnormal development of the unborn child.”
In reviewing Glaxos entanglements in the legal system over the last five years, the first guilty verdict in a Paxil-related suicide case was issued on July 7, 2001, when a jury in Cheyenne, Wyoming, ordered SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline) to pay $6.4 million to the relatives of Donald Schell, who after taking Paxil for only 2 days, shot and killed his wife, daughter, and granddaughter before killing himself.
At trial, the jury heard the expert testimony of British psychiatrist and SSRI researcher, Dr. David Healy, who told the panel that all SSRIs could trigger suicidal and violent behavior in some patients. On the stand, Dr Healy described his own studies that showed that SSRIs could even cause one in four healthy volunteers to become agitated, and in some cases suicidal.
Healthy volunteers means the subjects were not mentally ill to begin with.
Dr. Healy further revealed internal SmithKline documents from clinical trials conducted by the company to support his findings. He presented a summary of a study involving more than 2,000 healthy volunteers, taking either a placebo or Paxil, that found that hundreds of healthy volunteers on Paxil had experienced adverse reactions, ranging from insomnia or anxiety to attempted suicide, that doctors in the study coded as or caused by Paxil.
Glaxos defense team told the jury that taking 2 Paxil pills could not have caused Mr. Schells violent and suicidal behaviors. However, the summary of the companys own study showed that some healthy volunteers experienced anxiety, nightmares, hallucinations and other side effects coded as caused by Paxil within two days.
In as early as four days, another volunteer experienced akathisia, a severe form of agitation that experts believe increases the risk of violence and suicide, and 2 other volunteers attempted suicide after taking Paxil for 11 and 18 days.
In the end, after considering all the evidence, the jury placed 80% of the blame for the tragedy on Glaxo.
Glaxo is notorious for concealing negative information from Paxil and legal experts say civil litigation has played a major role in exposing the dangers kept hidden for so long. According to Attorney Menzies, Civil lawsuits uncover internal company documents to which not even the FDA has access.Through our Paxil litigation, she notes, ve obtained documents that show a seriously troubling mentality of profit over safety and a callous disregard for the welfare of children.s about as reprehensible as you can get, Ms Menzies says.
There is certainly enough available evidence to back up that assertion. For instance, on July 15, 2003, after meeting with the Canadian regulatory agency, Health Canada, Glaxo issued a public advisory in Canada alerting pediatric patients, their parents or guardians, and healthcare professionals that until further information was available that Paxil should not be given to pediatric patients, due to concerns of a possible increased risk of suicidal thinking, suicidal attempts or self-harm.
The advisory also said, Paxil must not be used in pediatric patients with major depressive disorder due to the additional fact that studies have failed to show that Paxil was effective in this patient population.
In addition, Glaxo distributed letters to physicians in Canada and the UK, informing them that studies had failed to demonstrate the efficacy of Paxil in the pediatric population and that there was a doubling of the rate of adverse events, including emotional lability. However, Glaxo did not provide American physicians with this information.
Instead, it sent Medical Information Letters only to those physicians who specifically requested information concerning Paxil as a treatment for children and adolescents.
Glaxo also took steps to actively conceal the negative information about Paxil from the American public. In a June 10, 2003 press release in UK, Glaxo disclosed the suicidal thinking or attempts in children, and particularly in adolescents. But the companys American press release on June 19, 2003, stated that there is no evidence that Paxil is associated with an increased risk of suicidal thinking or acts in adults and that not a single person committed suicide.
The American press release also provided no safety or efficacy information about Paxil regarding its use in the treatment of pediatric patients.
The five-year litigation history of Glaxo involves many different types of cases. For instance, in April 2003, Glaxo paid $88 million and signed one in a slew of corporate integrity agreements, to settle charges that the company overcharged the Medicaid programs for Paxil and the nasal-allergy spray, Flonase, using a complex scheme that involved the re-labeling of products sold to an HMO at deeply discounted prices, to avoid the obligation to pay millions of dollars in rebates to the Medicaid program.
The Medicaid Rebate program requires Glaxo to give Medicaid the same discounts it gives to commercial customers like HMOs, hospitals and drug store chains. Drug companies have to report their lowest discount price for each Medicaid covered drug on a quarterly basis, and then pay a rebate based on that price.
To resolve another shady deal, in a February 6, 2004 press release, Glaxo announced that it had agreed to pay $175 million to settle an antitrust class action lawsuit involving the anti-inflammatory drug Relafen filed on behalf of direct purchasers, including pharmaceutical wholesalers.
This lawsuit alleged that Glaxo used patent litigation to block generic versions of Relafen from reaching the market. Glaxo filed the patent infringement lawsuits against two generic drug makers in 1997, which triggered an automatic 30-month stay of the FDAs authority to grant approval of the generic drug applications.
However, Glaxo lost the patent litigation when U.S. District Judge ruled after a trial that Glaxo had obtained the Relafen patent through fraudulent misrepresentations to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The two generic companies, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA and Eon Labs Manufacturing Inc., later filed antitrust suits alleging that Glaxos patent lawsuits were litigation filed for the purpose of maintaining a monopoly.
In regard to these lawsuits, Glaxos Februay 6, 2004 press release said, Similar actions from other plaintiffs in the Relafen antitrust matter, including claims made by Teva, chain drug stores and Eon Labs have also been settled, resulting in further payments from GSK.
And of course the press release contained the standard claim that Glaxo continues to believe that its actions were appropriate in obtaining and enforcing its patent for Relafen.
Five months after the announcement of the settlement in the patent case, on June 2, 2004, New York State Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, issued a press release to report the filing of a lawsuit against Glaxo for concealing information about the safety and efficacy of Paxil in treating children and adolescents.
The complaint alleged that, starting in 1998, Glaxo engaged in a concerted effort to withhold negative information concerning Paxil and misrepresented data concerning the drugs safety and efficacy when prescribed for depression in children and adolescents and pointed out that Paxil has not been approved for any condition or illness in children or adolescents.
Specifically, it said, Glaxo conducted at least five studies on the use of Paxil in children and only published and disseminated one, which showed mixed results on efficacy.

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Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most remarkable men in the history of the world. As a boy he wanted the boldness of his father. As a child he wanted to be a naturalist, but as a teenager he wanted to get into politics. Once in politics he wanted power, and once in power he would change the world forever.
Theodore was a man of destiny, but in childhood his only destiny seemed to be death. From Teddy's birth, his small body was riddled with constant sickness, and poor health that brought death to his door on more than one occasion.
While Teddy was weak in body, he was strong in mind. He was constantly learning, reading, and self-educating. With his body sick and confined, his books and imagination provided limitless passage into the deepest, darkest jungles of his imagination where he waged epic battles against war like native's that inhabited his forbidden dark world.
His enthusiasm for nature and it's curiosities resulted in the creation of the Roosevelt Museum of Natural History at age 7, and his first literary accomplishment entitled, the Natural History of Insects was completed at age 9.
His mind recognized no boundaries, but his body was the perpetual weight that Teddy could never escape. During the summer of Teddy's 12th year, he was struck 3 times with debilitating asthma, and inescapable sickness rendering him once again under the care of a physician. Teddy's father made a decision based on a doctor's recommendation, that it was time to make a change. He called Theodore into the room and said, You have the mind, but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. You must make the body. Teddy took on the challenge with a snarl, and a burst of enthusiasm exclaiming, I'll make my body. And so he did?.
With Teddy's mind and body one, he attacked life and all it opportunities with boundless energy, enthusiasm, and discipline. He worked out with weights, became an avid boxer, hunted, rowed, and used all his might to make his body. With his education complete and his hat in the political arena; Teddy's career began to rocket towards inevitability. But not before he took a short departure from politics to take on Indians and cattle ranching in the Bad Lands of the Dakota's.
He experienced no shortage of adventures or hostilities in the Bad Lands. Wearing glasses in the Bad Lands were a sign of weakness, and any mention of the term Storm Shudders in Teddy's direction resulted in a Put up, or shut up show down. The hardened cowboys of the Bad Lands didn't offer respect to city folk as it was, and with Roosevelt being a politician, he was just that much further down the food chain. Expecting no respect, he used the same drive, discipline, and mental fortitude that he attacked all his obstacles with. He soon proved that he could ride 100 plus miles a day, stay up all night, and be back in the saddle 4 hours before daybreak. It was once documented that he was in the saddle once for over 40 hours, wearing out 5 different horses, and surviving two stampedes.
He believed in the pure good and evil of men, and he saw very little gray. His strong belief in justice, and a fearless attitude resulted in him being deputized to take on a band of thieving outlaws, which Roosevelt successfully tracked, and apprehended, and returned brought to justice at gunpoint.
Back in the real world, his leadership influence and political career continued to build momentum, and his trips to the Bad Lands became fewer and farther between. He was elected to be the police commissioner of New York, and was eventually appointed to be Assistant Secretary to the Navy.
His appointment was assisted by the knowledge of naval warfare he accumulated while researching, and writing his book, The Naval War of 1812. He was 23 years old. Not only the most famous of his 38 books, it was considered on both sides of the ocean as the most authoritative complete textbook on naval warfare ever produced. By 1868, special regulation ordered that at least one copy be placed on board every U.S. Navy Vessel.
As the Assistant Secretary to the Navy, he used his influence and knowledge to drive the urgency around the modernization of the aging American fleet. He knew that only through complete military superiority, could true peace be assured. This was the beginning of his theme he would carry through the Presidency, Walk softly and carry a big stick.
With tensions mounting for U.S. intervention in Cuba, Roosevelt made his intentions known that if war was declared; he planned on resigning to enlist in the army. For years he advocated a strong military. This was his chance to demonstrate he was not just full of talk, but was ready to take his beliefs to the battlefield. Although Teddy was offered the position as Colonel, he declined stating that he lacked experience, but would accept a Lt. Colonel position.
To Roosevelt's delight, the president issued an executive order to grow the 28,000 regular army by an additional 125,000. The order provisioned that the regiments be composed exclusively of frontiersmen possessing special qualifications as horsemen and marks men. These men would soon be known as, The Rough Riders. His time in the Bad Lands resulted in one of the most loyal followings any leader could hope for. He received over 23,000 applications, mostly addressed to him directly, asking to be instated into Teddy's The Rough Riders. After his final selection process, his Rough Riders were comprised of Cowboy's and aristocratic blue bloods. Teddy's influence impacted everyone, and his followers were a reflection of his ability to connect to all types of people. Under his command, and guided by Roosevelt's leadership skill the The Rough Riders descended with great furry upon the coast of Cuba. Teddy finally had his battle and he was successful.
Upon his return, he campaigned for the Vice Presidency giving 673 speeches, and traveling more that 20,000 miles. Again his drive and energy could only be described as boundless. He was vice president for only 4 hours, before McKinley was subjected to an act of terrorism, immediately moving Teddy's into the most influential position in the world.
After a very accomplished presidency, his desire for more was always with him. In 1909 he traveled to Africa with the Smithsonian on a scientific expedition. A few years later in 1913, he co-led a team to explore the uncharted River of Doubt in Brazil. It was my last chance to be a boy, he later admitted. He was fifty-five years old. Teddy's leadership style, and magnetic personality provided him that would follow him literally to the ends of the know earth.
Roosevelt's leadership traits were numerous, but he always had a special admiration for the men of great strength, discipline, and character who were not afraid to fight the good fight, fail and come up short again. His belief is summed up below in one of Theodore's most famous Leadership Quotes referring to a boxer.
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the area; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in worthy cause, who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
On January 6, 1919 Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep, with a book under his pillow. Then Vice president Marshall had this to say, Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight.

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