[the808bass]

Of the 8 examples that you gave, SSRIs were involved with 7 of the cases.

To post cases where SSRIs were simply involved is ridiculous, you know that. There has to be some sort of causation shown to have any sort of credibility. Otherwise, you might as well make a page with all the people who got an upper respiratory infections while on fexofenadine. Or who got poison ivy while taking zolpidem.

To be fair, I haven't read the Healy article yet. I will do so.

[neverdem]

To post cases where SSRIs were simply involved is ridiculous, you know that.

How do you think they bought a clue about fen-phen?

In addition to being linked to valvular heart disease, fen-phen has also been linked to primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH).

I too was skeptical initially about the school shootings and SSRIs. Luke Woodham and Kip Kinkel were also on Prozac. Kinkel was also on Ritalin. Antidepressants are basically stimulants. Why should anybody be surprised with psychotic episodes in folks taking stimulants? Here's the structure of amphetamine, an amino group two carbon atoms away from a benzene ring:

amphetamine

Here's fluoxetine(Prozac):

fluoxetine

The squiggly line indicates a racemic mixture.

You can see the amino group is just three carbon atoms from the benzene ring. There are other obvious modifcations to the molecule, but genetic differences in the receptors for these psychoactive amines have not been discussed to the best of my knowledge. The URLs for some images can't be posted, so I linked them.