Suicide Wellbutrin 15/07/2003 Massachusetts Woman Given Wellbutrin for Gall Stones: Commits Suicide
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DR. RUDORFER: Thank you.
Number 52 please.
Allan Routhier
MR. ROUTHIER: I am here to request that
Wellbutrin be recognized as another dangerous drug.
Information was sent to this committee by some
researchers and myself as to the reasons for
inclusion. There are too many cases of suicide and
deaths caused by this drug. It is known to cause
akathisia, depression, psychosis, serotonin
syndrome, seizures, hallucinations, and many other
serious adverse effects.
One suicide while on Wellbutrin for ADHD
was 9-year-old Carey Brooks, who had to kneel down
to hang himself with his shoelace. There are many
reasons these drugs are prescribed, and they can
cause suicide in non-depressed people.
Do not blame acts of drug-induced
psychosis on depression especially when this is
happening to people given these drugs for other
purposes. It is not only SSRIs. SSRI is a
misnomer. None of them are selective to serotonin.
When you affect one neurotransmitter, you affect
others.
Remeron, Serzone, Effexor are not SSRIs.
Effexor works on serotonin, norepinephrine, and
dopamine, as does Wellbutrin. FDA Med Watch
reports hundreds of suicides on Wellbutrin.
Wellbutrin is structurally similar to amphetamine
and overstimulates many people.
Six months ago my wife went to the doctor
sick and was sent home with Wellbutrin. After six
days of serious adverse reactions and insomnia, she
shot herself. This was not her. Forty years old,
beautiful, with two boys, she was a perfect wife
and mother, married for 18 years, almost 25 years
working in the Welfare Office.
She was never depressed. She was the most
loving, unselfish person anyone could know.
Immediately after starting Wellbutrin, she was not
herself. This was an act of psychosis. This has
been happening for too long. People are worth more
than profits.
How many more have to die before something
is done? Don't be fooled by manipulated studies.
This was whitewashed in 1991, now they are trying
to do it again. This happens to adults, as well as
children, prescribed for any reason, not just MDD.
My wife was murdered. The FDA is supposed
to protect us from these pill pushers.
Thank you.
DR. RUDORFER: Thank you.