http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/AC/prozac/2443T1.PDF
Maria Malakoff?
MS. MALAKOFF: My name is Maria Malakoff. I did not prepare a
speech.
My husband has just committed suicide four months and 20
days ago in front of four kids and myself. My
husband was suffering a little depression.
We work with cancer patients. For the last four
years we do indigents, trying to find out what causes
cancer.
He was a little depressed, went to a doctor that gave him
Prozac . He came home and he thought it was a wonder drug.
I took the job of three businesses at the same time and I
was suffering anxiety. I went to a cardiologist, who asked
me to go to a psychiatrist to give me something for my
anxiety. I was placed on Prozac, too. On our anniversary,
February 14th, I went to Kapalu Bay, Hawaii, and cut my
veins. I decided I wasn't taking this drug. My husband
didn't believe me. He was a pharmacist. He came back and on
April 30th he just blew his brains out in front of all of
us. Nothing will bring my husband back,
nothing?s going to bring my kids? father back, but I
believe that Eli Lilly has made other mistakes before when
they got Oroflex out there that killed 28 people and it was
taken off.
We?re over 28. How many more have to die before
somebody says, "Look, we made a mistake, we?re humans, but
let's look into it." I' m not blaming Eli Lilly. I'm
blaming a mistake that has been made here. Please search
into this.
I can't take the five minutes. I can't handle it any
more.
DR. CASEY: Thank you for your comments.