Word: prozac
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...urged the manufacturers of 10 popular antidepressants to issue new, more stringent warning labels. The drugs named in the advisory are Prozac, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Zyban, Paxil, Celexa, Effexor, Serzone, Luvox and Remeron. Together these pills racked up sales of about $12 billion worldwide in 2002. Some experts believe that it was their very popularity that concerned the FDA. Many doctors, the agency apparently fears, are giving out the pills too freely, without adequate monitoring...
...book painstakingly progresses month by month, taking readers on a journey of journaling under trees, diet battles won and lost, manic depression diagnoses, multiple suicide attempts, Prozac and a pregnancy during which the author eats “onion rings the size of bracelets.” Is she an ectomorph who eats to live, a mesomorph who eats and lives, or an endomorph who lives to eat? Oh the traumas of the mind in biology class. Sounds more like Judy Blume writing her own version of Prozac Nation than Sylvia Plath’s prose...
...hope I’ll never know what it’s like to have a New York nervous breakdown, but if the price of emotional stability means never sitting in the front row at a New York fashion show, I might have to take my Prozac with my Prada...
...smattering of associated insecurities that can’t be tucked neatly into a Christian Dior clutch. The book fulfils a strange compulsion to be at once fascinated with and freaked out by everything I’m not. I guess I’ll pass on the Prozac, and the Prada...
Depression and physical pain often go hand in hand, and new research suggests why it's important to recognize and treat both. In a group of 573 patients taking Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft, 24% were still not responding to the antidepressants after three months of treatment. The drugs were most likely to fail those who were in pain at the onset of treatment; the worse the pain, the less the drugs worked. The odds of a poor response were twice as high for patients in moderate pain and three to four times as high for those in severe pain...