Word: prozac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last fall, for instance, despite ambiguous evidence, a jury ordered Merrell Dow to pay a Texas couple $33.8 million; they claimed the antinausea drug Bendectin had maimed their child in the womb. And patients around the country are lining up to sue Eli Lilly, alleging that the anti-depressant Prozac induces violent thoughts -- despite FDA findings to the contrary. In some cases, companies decide to settle out of court rather than take their chances with juries. Upjohn, for example, paid an undisclosed sum to a woman who claimed the drug Halcion had driven her to commit murder. Most doctors believe...
Meanwhile, Eli Lilly is battling several lawsuits that claim, on the basis of scant evidence, that the antidepressant Prozac can cause extreme agitation, suicidal tendencies and even an impulse to murder...
...little more than a year ago, with the economy gloomy, I suggested in these pages that we spike the water with Prozac. The Administration chose to invade Iraq instead, which served much the same purpose -- lifting the national mood -- and was probably also a very good thing for the world. (The toll on the Iraqis was horrible, but so was the prospect of Saddam with the Bomb...
...disingenuously named Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a Scientology group at war with psychiatry, its primary competitor. The commission typically issues reports aimed at discrediting particular psychiatrists and the field in general. The CCHR is also behind an all-out war against Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac, the nation's top-selling antidepression drug. Despite scant evidence, the group's members - who call themselves "psychbusters" - claim that Prozac drives people to murder or suicide. Through mass mailings, appearances on talk shows and heavy lobbying, CCHR has hurt drug sales and helped spark dozens of lawsuits against Lilly...
Unemployment is climbing and inflation rising, but sales of Halcion (for insomnia) and Prozac (depression) are brisk. When the economy slumps, so does the national psyche...