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drug_recall zoloftZoloft causes some people (3-5%) to experience a suicide or suicidal event. Such events are marked by: 1) thoughts of suicide 2) gestures of suicide (typically cutting of the body) 3) suicide attempts 4) actual death by suicide. Pfizer, like the other SSRI manufacturers, has long been aware that SSRIs can cause people to kill themselves.
Though people in other countries are not adequately warned of the suicide risk caused by Zoloft, they do get better information than those in the United States. One example is the French label for Zoloft. It states:
“As with any antidepressant treatment, there is still a risk of suicide in depressed patients at the treatment initiation with loss of psychomotor inhibition possibly preceding the antidepressant action itself”
Another is the label for Zoloft in Sweden:
“In depressed patients, the possibility of a suicide attempt remains during treatment until remission has occurred and could, in certain instances, also increase initially as the inhibition decreases before the mood is improved.” (Emphasis added.)
In Germany, physicians in that country are instructed to closely monitor their patients they put on Zoloft. The German label states:
“Since the possibility of a suicide attempt is inherent in depression and may persist until significant remission occurs, patients should be closely monitored during the early course of therapy and until the onset of the antidepressant effect. As Zoloft has no general sedating effects a generally sedating drug may additionally be required in patients with agitation and marked insomnia.”
This last sentence is particularly important because as can be seen from the next section, many of the people who experience Zoloft-induced suicidality, first experience a state of extreme agitation medically known as akathisia (see Extreme Agitation).
June
10, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
British regulators warned June 10, 2003 that the use of the popular antidepressant Paxil could increase the risk of suicide up to 3 times in children and adolescents under 18. The British drug regulators warned that children should not be prescribed Paxil from now on due to recent findings. GlaxoSmithKline, Paxil’s maker, announced the company would not warn U.S. doctors of the link between Paxil children and higher risk of suicide.
Each has experienced similar withdrawal reactions and problems such as:
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