Word: zoloft
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WHAT DO YOU TAKE NOW? Zoloft...
...electrical currents in their brain? "You have to remember the brain is both an electrical and a chemical organ," says Dr. Mark George, a psychiatrist at the Medical University of South Carolina who is investigating magnetic stimulation as a treatment for depression for the NIMH. Drugs like Prozac and Zoloft address chemical imbalances, but that's only part of the problem. Electroconvulsive therapy, despite its troubling side effects, is still one of the most effective treatments available for severe, unrelenting depression...
CONVICTED. CHRISTOPHER PITTMAN, 15, teenager who claimed taking the antidepressant Zoloft led him to shoot his grandparents in their bed in 2001; on two counts of murder; in Charleston, S.C. Though jurors rejected the Zoloft defense, they agonized over trying Pittman, who was 12 when he committed the crime, as an adult. He was sentenced to the minimum term of 30 years in prison...
...almost a century, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has endured its share of rough patches. But "rough patch" hardly begins to describe all the bad news that has battered the agency over the past few months, from the possible suicide risks with antidepressants like Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft to the cardiac risks of pain-killers like Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra. Americans depend on the FDA to carefully weigh the benefits and risks of all drugs before approving them, but the agency has had trouble lately shaking the growing perception, justified or not, that it has been working harder...
...possible that this could result in major side effects that last even when the child is an adult. But, is it any better to place kids on antidepressants that have never been sufficiently tested on maturing minds and bodies? There was certainly not enough evidence to prove that Zoloft caused Christopher Pittman to commit murder, as antidepressants have so far been related to suicidal ideation and not violence. This absence of the link between antidepressants and violence no doubt contributed to the jury’s guilty verdict. But because of the lack of clinical trials demonstrating their effects...