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In Reply to: Where you got the idea for the definition of Akathisia posted by Not sure on February 16, 2006 at 19:17:37:
During a murder/suicide trial Eli Lilly's internal records revealed considerable awareness of prozac causing suicide within the companies internal memos and research. "A letter sent to it from the British Committee on Safety of Medicines in 1984 reads: 'During the treatment with [Prozac] 16 suicide attempts were made, two of these with success. As patients with a risk of suicide were excluded from the studies, it is probable that this high proportion can be attributed to an action of the preparation.'"
The idea that it leads to "craving for death" could have more mildly been written a "craving for suicide".
If you were a polar bear PETA would protest your prozac: "In America today, it's easy to go out and get glowing testimony from parents about how wonderfully their children have been doing on Ritalin. There was a caged animal, a polar bear, in the zoo in Toronto, who was pacing up and down and looking uncomfortable, and looking like he'd really like to go back to the Arctic or the Antarctic. And they put him on Prozac, and he stopped pacing. His name was Snowball. He sat quietly and looked happy. And animal rights people gathered to the zoo and protested the drugging of a polar bear to make him into a good caged animal, and he was taken off the drug."
