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Put "SSRI" in your search engine and read what people are going through to try and get off Zoloft, Paxil, etc. It will make your skin crawl. I've seen it personaly. It makes heroin withdrawal look tame. I don't generaly like lawsuits, but I hope they win. I believe every child shooter was on these drugs during the shooting spree 90's. These are powerfull drugs! Doctors prescribe these things like candy. It must stop.

Just as a matter of common sense, any (legal) drug that has directions which say, "Important: To not abruptly stop taking this drug," would give one cause for second thoughts. I believe all these SSRI type drugs cannot be stopped abruptly.

I would have hoped the FDA would put specific restrictions on those types of drugs in the line of, "This drug only to be given to institutionalized patients" where they can be closely supervised and not on the drug for long periods of time. As it is, doctors hand this stuff out like candy. And people, who are brainwashed to believe the doctor is God, dutifuly do what their Doc tells them. It is truly frightening. These people are walking among us every day.

War on Drugs my a$$.

BTW, no offense to the others on this thread, but can you BELIEVE the posts here? Are we still at Free Republic? Or are we in roboland?

This article is astounding, absolutely filled with all kinds of front page shockers! And most if not all of the responses are (said in a droning monotone): "It's not the drug, it's the parents," "people must take responsibility," "(legal) drugs are good, lawyers are bad."

Do you think they even read this amazing article?

These are powerfull drugs! Doctors prescribe these things like candy. It must stop.

I agree with you, and I do absolutely believe that SSRI's can cause mania in children.

But there is one problem here. If the Colombine killings had been planned for more than a year, I doubt one could say that it was all the fault of a medication.

Sorry, don't mean to be a pest, just went to Solvay's website to check up on the info in this article about Luvox being taken off the market. Here's a May 2002 press release:

Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Suspends Sales of LUVOX® in the United States after FDA Exclusivity Expiration

Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc., Marietta, Georgia, has voluntarily requested the withdrawal of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s original approval for LUVOX® (fluvoxamine maleate) Tablets, in the United States only. All other countries where fluvoxamine maleate is available for patients will remain entirely unaffected by this decision.

The turnover generated by LUVOX® in the United States has sharply declined since its U.S. FDA exclusivity expired, in June 2000. The bulk of Solvay’s fluvoxamine maleate sales are now in Japan and the European Union. The interruption of LUVOX® shipments in the US does not affect the prospects of the Group’s pharmaceutical sector for 2002.

Both the FDA and the company have no concerns over the safety or efficacy of LUVOX®.

This withdrawal has no relation to the immediate release forms of fluvoxamine manufactured and sold in several countries around the world, and is based solely on U.S. administrative policy concerns. Prior to withdrawal of the application, Solvay Pharmaceuticals suspended further shipments of LUVOX® in the U.S. only.

SOLVAY PHARMACEUTICALS, Inc. (www.solvaypharmaceuticals-us.com) of Marietta, Georgia, is a research-based pharmaceuticals company, active in the therapeutic areas of cardiology, gastroenterology, mental health and women’s health. It is a member of the worldwide Solvay chemical and pharmaceutical group, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

SOLVAY is an international chemical and pharmaceutical group with headquarters in Brussels. It employs some 31,400 people in 50 countries. In 2001 its consolidated sales amounted to EUR 8.7 billion generated by its four sectors of activity: Chemicals, Plastics, Processing and Pharmaceuticals. Solvay is listed on the Euronext 100 index of top European companies. Details are available at www.solvay.com

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Lots of drugs have undesirable/unintended side effects. Jerry Lewis is the latest prime and notable example.

Not SSRI's, but shouldn't the responsiblity be with the medical profession to identify the available treatments
for what is in THEIR patient's best interest, and go from there?

Prescribing [the effective] anti-depressants is more art, luck, and experience, than science, anyway.

My point is that I would hate to see beneficial drugs go up in price or pulled from the market because of medical
incompetence or patient abuse.