Can antidepressants lead people to become violent?
The question has been raised frequently in recent years, often by lawyers representing murder defendants who had been taking drugs, such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft.
It surfaced in Charlotte with the stabbing deaths Jan. 20 of 5-year-old twin girls. Their father, David Crespi, who was taking antidepressants and sleeping […]
Q: My husband went into the hospital for chest pains on a Sunday. He was kept overnight, and lots of tests were run. After all that, he was told he was physically healthy and probably just had an anxiety attack. He was given Wellbutrin and sent on his way. On Tuesday, he still wasn’t feeling […]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) — Studies suggest Paxil increases the risk for birth defects if taken in the first trimester of pregnancy, says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA is alerting healthcare professionals and patients about early results of the studies for Paxil, or paroxetine hydrochloride, approved for the treatment of depression and […]
GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) has changed the Paxil® (paroxetine hydrochloride) labeling to reflect updated epidemiological studies which show that infants born to women who had first trimester exposure to paroxetine had an increased risk of cardiovascular malformations.
The most common malformations in the studies were ventricular and atrial septal defects.
In general, septal defects range from […]
Clinical Relevance: Paroxetine (Paxil and Paxil CR; GlaxoSmithKline) taken in the first trimester of pregnancy was found to increase the risk of congenital malformations in infants (most specifically cardiac anomalies) as compared to the general population as well as to other antidepressants. One unpublished study, based on the Swedish National Registry, demonstrated a two-fold risk […]
GlaxoSmithKline has alerted physicians and pharmacists that they may have to ration Coreg, a heart medication that is the only approved treatment for certain high-risk patients.
Two other GSK drugs, diabetes treatment Avandamet and antidepressant Paxil CR, are also in short supply.
The shortages are caused by voluntary safeguards GSK introduced in December at its production plant […]
The Food and Drug Administration today is alerting health care professionals and patients about early results of new studies for Paxil (paroxetine) suggesting that the drug increases the risk for birth defects, particularly heart defects, when women take it during the first three months of pregnancy. Paxil is approved for the treatment of depression […]