Let Them Eat Prozac: An Interview With David Healy (tags)
Let Them Eat Prozac: An Interview With David Healy
Paxil - A Prescription For Violence? (tags)
Ann Blake Tracy, the coalition's executive director, said Prozac and other antidepressants can induce a state in which adults or juveniles act out their "worst nightmares." Tracy said she founded the nonprofit group in Salt Lake City, Utah, about 10 years ago to educate people about the risks and described teenagers as particularly vulnerable because of their developing minds and bodies.
The author provides the reader with a Seattle mother's story of her son's 1990 suicide while on Prozac, a corrective to the media myth that Prozac produces few side effects at the passing of Eli Lilly & Co.'s patent on the drug at start of August, a brief history of Prozac and, finally, the author analyzes a recently published article by Dr. David Dunner of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Washington.