Suicide Attempt Prozac 14/02/1990 U.S.A. A Prozac Survivor Testifies to FDA
Suicide Attempt Prozac 1990-02-14 U.S.A. A Prozac Survivor Testifies to FDA
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Summary:
http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/AC/prozac/2443T1.PDF
DR. CASEY: Thank you.
Wontorski?
MR. WONTORSKI: My name is Richard Wontorski. I'm
a survivor from Prozac. I wrote a five-minute speech, but
listening to everybody else, I don't want to bore a lot of
people in here, because a few of them look like they?re bored
The drug does cause suicidal tendencies, that?s all
I can tell you. It shouldn?t be on the market. If it?s going
to be on the market, give me a choice whether it?s going to
label "This could be suicidal". I had no choice. I went to a
family doctor. I was feeling a little low. He gives me a new
wonder drug, Prozac. I was told of no side effects, none at
all.
If I?m going to get something -- even a pack
cigarettes tells you it could cause cancer, saccharine
causes cancer, they're giving you warning on pop cans -- that's just pop, everybody drinks pop all day long. I just don?t
understand why you can?t give a label on a medication that
does have suicidal tendencies, or anything that could cause
you any harm. I want to know, I want the right to know if I?
going to be harmed by a medication I?m taking.
That's why the FDA is out there, to help us, to
protect us. Just like your family doctor, like myself and
everybody else, we trust our family doctors. My family doctor
trusted Eli Lilly. Somebody's got to do something with this
drug. I?m glad this is going about. It?s taken a lot to get
everybody here. I didn?t want to be up here. I?m shaking in
my boots now. I've never sat and talked in front of anybody
before, other than a basketball group, but for these people
that have stood up, my hand goes out to them, because I've
been there, and the ones that didn?t show and you?ve called
their names, I think I know why they didn?t want to be up
here. You know, I don?t want to relive any of this.
Please, Eli Lillyr take this off the market. Mark
things . If you?re going to make another drug in lieu of this
one, label the warning. I went to get -- my first
prescription, I never got anything that said it was toxic or
any harm to me. You take it because your doctor tells you.
You take it like your religion, one in the morning, one at
night.
I don?t know what to tell you other than please take
this drug off the market, and I thank everybody that showed up
today and had the courage to come up here and talk. Thank
you .
DR. CASEY: Thank you.