There's a terrific series of books out about Prozac and how it was "developed" and marketted--without sufficient testing, without proper studies--by Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical firm in which the Bush family owns a controlling number of shares. Seems that profit is the prevailing motive in psychiatric drug making (as it is in all branches of medicine, one could argue). It's called "Talking Back to Prozac" by Dr. Peter Breggin.
Dr. Breggin writes very critically of the biases in psychiatric medicine and "science" of medicine, in general--who gets "tested" and how, who gets good treatment and who doesn't, what consists of good treatment and what doesn't. In this book he outlines how this drug really avoided scrutiny and has been liberally prescribed...and because it was so successful, other pharmaceutical companies created very similar drugs and were able to have them "approved" by the FDA with little testing or scrutiny as well. There is plenty of documentation which suggests a strong correlation between violence (self-directed and outwardly directed) and SSRI use. Just in Toronto, many examples and tragic cases of post-partum depression, treated via SSRI, leading to suicide/infanticide deaths. I suspect many suffering mothers will be tragically treated with these drugs and kill their babies and/or themselves as a result...and wind up spending a lifetime in prison.
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10th December 2003, 04:17 AM
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