I was given Paxil in the mid-90s and it is effective for certain types of chemical depression.
Anti-depressants are given, primarily to people who are depressed. People who are depressed are more prone to commit suicide than people who are not depressed. Therefore, people who are given anti-depressants are still prone to commit suicide because depression is complex and can be caused due to more than one factor and any drug is only designed to attack one factor.
I suppose in our litigious society, it’s not surprising that lawyers would look to pharma companies to blame for patients on anti-depressants who commit suicide but my point is that the patients were already predisposed to be suicidal. The drug may make them better or may make them worse but they were already suicidal to begin with.
The wife of Phil Hartman is a perfect example. She murdered Phil in his sleep and then killed herself. She was on anti-depressants but she also drank and took drugs but the lawyers want to blame the anti-depressants. Seems to me you could have blamed all sorts of things for this but the lawyers just pick the deep pockets.
Right.
4800 Independent News Stories of people behaving as if they’re remaking an Exorcist movie and it’s the Lawyers faults.
Look through the top 20 AERs on these 23 crap drugs.
http://bonkersinstitute.org/simpleside.html
Only Neurontin features Gun Shot wound in its Top 20, and That’s because the Military is pushing Neurontin and pushing it hard.
190 cases of Gun Shot wound, in the Military where guns are everywhere, but it’s the Lawyers.