Murder-Suicide Prozac 17/02/1990 U.S.A. Wife Kills Self: Husband Kills Friend & Self: Both on Prozac
 Murder-Suicide	Prozac	1990-02-17	U.S.A.	Wife Kills Self: Husband Kills Friend & Self: Both on Prozac
 
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 Summary:<br><br><a href="http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/AC/prozac/2443T1.PDF">http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/AC/prozac/2443T1.PDF<br /><br /><br /></a><font face="courier" size="4">DR. CASEY: Thank you very much. Susan Williams?<br /><br />MS. WILLIAMS:<strong> Susan Williams. I didn&#39;t really want<br /><br />to bring my daughter with me today. Unfortunately, she was so<br /><br />traumatized by my going out of town that I had to bring her.<br /><br />Lindsay&rsquo;s mother began taking Prozac in August of<br /><br />1988 for treatment of depression and alcoholism. She became<br /><br />very suicidal on the drug. She was a slight woman, she weighed 98 <br /><br />pounds. She was kind of hyper, to begin with, and<br /><br />the drug made her very, very aggravated. I looked it up in<br /><br />the dictionary: Aggravation is &quot;to make worse, to annoy or to<br /><br />irritate.&quot; So essentially Prozac made her problems worse.<br /><br />She ultimately committed suicide.<br /><br />One woman earlier spoke of nearly committing suicide<br /><br /><br />in front of her children. My sister did commit suicide in front of Lindsay.<br /><br />Another woman spoke of hollow-point bullets. That&rsquo;s what my sister <br /><br />used to do it.<br /><br />Okay, the plot thickens here. A year and a half<br /><br />later, Lindsay&rsquo;s father went in for treatment for drug<br /><br />addiction. They began treating him with Prozac and Valium.<br /><br />He was a very passive man, to begin with. He became highly,<br /><br />highly hostile, very aggressive, ultimately committed a<br /><br />homicide and then a suicide while on Prozac.<br /><br />I&#39;m Lindsay&rsquo;s mom now. Ive adopted her. And if you want to talk <br /><br />Prozac victim, this is a Prozac victim here, and this is not going <br /><br />to go away. Lindsay will tell you that her parents died of <br /><br />drug addiction, and when you hear that, you think she&rsquo;s <br /><br />speaking of cocaine or some other illegal drug. She&rsquo;s <br /><br />talking about Prozac. Prozac caused her parents to kill <br /><br />themselves.<br /><br />I&#39;m not a zealot and I&#39;m not here with any<br /><br />anecdotes . This is my story and it&rsquo;s hard to talk about it.<br /><br />Life goes on and I&#39;m a very positive person and I hope that<br /><br />Lindsay grows up and will be very positive with me.<br /><br />I understand that Loban is being considered being<br /><br />approved now for weight loss. Being such a weight-conscious<br /><br />society that we are, think of all the young men and women who<br /><br />are going to want to take this drug for weight loss. You&#39;re<br /><br />going to have a lot more people that are becoming suicidal<br /><br />and/or homicidal on this drug. I really, really think that<br /><br />you should consider changing the warnings on Prozac or, at the<br /><br />very most, removing it from the market.<br /><br />Someone else spoke about the European group that was<br /><br />trying to decide something. Who cares what Europe is doing?<br /><br />This is the United States. It&rsquo;s not Scientology. Everyone<br /><br />seems to put it &quot;us versus them,&quot; Eli Lilly or the FDA versus<br /><br />us, or us versus them, or the Scientologists versus everyone<br /><br />else. We&rsquo;re all in this together. There&rsquo;s obviously a<br /><br />problem with this drug and I don&#39;t understand why someone<br /><br />isn&#39;t doing something about it.<br /><br />Yes, I believe that there are mentally ill people<br /><br />that probably do need to be treated with something, but there<br /><br />are plenty of other drugs on the market that don&#39;t seem to<br /><br />have had this problem. I don&#39;t see why you can&#39;t prescribe<br /><br />that drug to them and take Prozac off the market, even if it is<br /><br />temporarily, until you, the medical community, can decide what<br /><br />is causing this.<br /><br />No one has ever really explained what Prozac does.<br /><br />I&rsquo;ve heard that it taps neurons in the brain. Well, perhaps<br /><br /><br />it taps certain neurons in certain peoples&#39; brain that tap<br /><br />suicidal ideation. Who knows? No one has ever explained<br /><br />that. All I&#39;ve heard is the Scientology issue. I&#39;m not a<br /><br />Scientologistr but I dont understand why nobody has ever<br /><br />really addressed the technical side of how it affects the<br /><br />brain and why it is causing these people to do such gross<br /><br />things .<br /><br />My sister would have never, ever have killed<br /><br />herself in front of this little girl. She would have never<br /><br />done that. Prozac induced her to do that.<br /><br />DR. CASEY : One minute, please.<br /><br />WILLIAMS: Oh, God, I&rsquo;ve got another minute.<br /><br />CASEY : No, you are not required.<br /><br />WILLIAMS: I know that, but I feel, you know, that I should<br /><br />be here when everybody else did such a good job.<br /><br />I hear people applauding pro-Prozac. I hear people<br /><br />applauding for the people that are against Prozac. I&#39;m<br /><br />against Prozac, because I think it&rsquo;s dangerous, but I think<br /><br />there are other alternatives to Prozac. There are other drugs<br /><br />out there that apparently have been proven to be good drugs.<br /><br />Let the people that are using Prozac or having adverse<br /><br />reactions to it use that drug until the medical community can<br /><br />decide what the problem is with this drug. There is a<br /><br />problem.<br /><br />If you choose not to do anything and then you do<br /><br />approve Loban, you&rsquo;re going to have to go through all of this<br /><br />again. And this little girl is going to grow up having to<br /><br />deal with all of that and she&#39;ll be fighting in our place<br /><br />where we are now. If you do consider changing the labeling of<br /><br />Prozac, I think it is the very least you should do for it.<br /><br />Otherwise, I think you should take it off the market all together. <br /><br />Thank you.<br />&nbsp; </strong></font> 
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