Paroxetine (SSRI antidepressant. Seroxat, Peroxat, Paxil, Aropax, Deroxat, Pondera, Cebrilin, Aropax )
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Paroxetine or paroxetine hydrochloride is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant. Prozac was invented at Eli Lilly. It was released in 1992 by the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline and has since become one of the most prescribed antidepressants on the market, used to treat depression as well as a spectrum of 'anxiety disorders' ranging from panic attacks to phobias.

Maker: Eli Lilly  Glaxo SmithKline

Articles

Bob Fiddaman

Interviews 
[2002 Interview] Prozac, Suicide---Dr. Healy

The Risks Outweigh the Benefits - An Interview with Bob Fiddaman  The withdrawal hell of Seroxat doesn't look like much when reading about it. One has to experience it at first hand to fully understand just how debilitating it can be. .....GSK messed my life up and are continuing to mess with other people’s lives. I don't want them to do that so I write about them.  In all I was on the liquid Seroxat for a total of 18 months, weaning down from 40mg per day to 22mg per day - it was a long process but It was something I needed to do. This drug had control of me, my thoughts, my emotions, dare I say it, my whole life.

Articles
[2017 April] Dolin Vs GSK : Jury shown List of the Dead in Paxil Clinical Trials There were also 40 suicide attempts during the Paxil clinical trials. ..Pharmaceutical companies much prefer clinical trials where the subjects are suffering an underlying "disorder." They can then claim, if the trial is a success, their product can treat that disorder and any suicides or attempts can be blamed on the "illness" rather than the treatment. Remember, clinical trials are ongoing, even when the drug gets to market. This is called the 'Post Marketing Phase.'  When a patient contacts the company because of an adverse reaction, the company request all medical files from the patients doctors. They do this, they claim, to rule out any other possible cause. In reality, they do this to blame underlying illness, other medication that may have been being used at the time, and/or the prescribing doctor.

[2016 Oct] Jury Awards $11.9 Million in Paxil Suicide Malpractice Case--Psychiatric Expert Peter R. Breggin Testifies

[2015 Sept Paxil] Researchers said a popular antidepressant was safe for teens. It was actually deadly.

[2013 April] Could your medicine give you a drink problem? The disturbing side-effects even the manufacturers don't know about

[2012 April] PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS KILLING SOLDIERS BY HEART ATTACK. MILITARY COVERUP? WHO IS PROFITING? DAUGHTER OF SENATOR WINS DRUG-SUPPLYING CONTRACT WITH THE ARMY By Jon Rappoport   a decade ago, the Army wouldn't accept recruits who had taken psychiatric meds, including Ritalin. Now, according to Breggin, the whole policy has been reversed. Soldiers who are heading for the battlefield must agree to take these drugs. If you were mounting a conscious plan to destroy a military force from within, the widespread prescription of psychotropic drugs would be an obvious choice......Here are excerpts from Dr. Baughman's published letter: " [I] opened and financed my own investigation into these unexplained deaths. Andrew White, Eric Layne, Nicholas Endicott and Derek Johnson, all in their twenties, were four West Virginia veterans who died in their sleep in early 2008.... All were on the same prescribed drug cocktail, Seroquel (antipsychotic), Paxil (antidepressant) and Klonopin (benzodiazepine) and all appeared "normal" when they went to sleep.

[2010 April] Seroxat Withdrawal...The Evidence, However, Is Abundantly Clear! by Bob Fiddaman

[pdf 2009] Paroxetine - The Teratogenic Effect by Bob Fiddaman

[Media March 2004 Seroxat] Why I resigned over this disgraceful "happy pill" cover-up

Trail Of Paxil Suicides Leads To GlaxoSmithKline By Evelyn Pringle

[2004] Why I resigned over this disgraceful "happy pill" cover-up by RICHARD BROOK "The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulation Agency found from information that had been in its possession for more than a decade that high doses of the anti-depressant can lead to aggression and thoughts of suicide. But instead of revealing the truth to the 17,000 people taking high doses and the other half-million Britons on a safer dose, the MHRA sat on its findings. Astonishingly, I was actually threatened with legal action by Professor Kent Woods, chief executive of the MHRA, if I revealed this."

[pdf] Seroxat Article 31 - Consolidated Response Document - January 04  GSK received 1,413 reports of self-harm/suicidal behaviour in adults plus patients of unspecified age up to 31 May 2003. Of these reports, 997 (71.0%) were received from HCPs and 416 (29.0%) were from consumers. During the same period, GSK received 40,056 reports of "other events" in adults plus patients of unspecified age received in the same period, of which 26,968 (67.0%) were received from HCPs and 13,088 (33.0%) were received from consumers. In this analysis of risk factors, the dataset of 997 reports from HCPs documenting self-harm/suicidal behaviour is compared with the 26,968 HCPconfirmed reports of "other events". Similarly, the 416 consumer reports of selfharm/suicidal behaviour are compared with the 13,088 consumer reports of "other events".

[Media April 2002] The chemistry of happiness (Seroxat)

[Media June, 2001] Murder, suicide. A bitter aftertaste for the 'wonder' depression drug

They claim Seroxat can cure shyness, but its effect on me was terrifying.

[Oct 2002 usenet] I am thinking of starting up a support group for people who are suffering severe withdrawal symptoms with seroxat

[2003] Paxil Suicide
Paxil and BREAST CANCER
[2003] Another horrible Paxil story “We will never get over this horrible nightmare.”
[2004] 16-Year Old’s Suicide on Zoloft

Psychiatric Drugs: An Assault on the Human Condition Street Spirit Interview with Robert Whitaker

US Justice Dept. Investigation of Glaxo-Paxil Widens Of note, a recently unsealed court document, an expert report by Harvard psychiatrist, Joseph Glenmullen, MD, reveals that GSK knew as early as 1989 that there was an 8-fold increased risk of suicide for patients taking Paxil

[2010 April] Seroxat Withdrawal...The Evidence, However, Is Abundantly Clear! by Bob Fiddaman

[pdf 2009] Paroxetine - The Teratogenic Effect by Bob Fiddaman

Committee on the Safety of Medicines & GSK Ties

The Risks Outweigh the Benefits - An Interview with Bob Fiddaman

Trail Of Paxil Suicides Leads To GlaxoSmithKline By Evelyn Pringle

Book
[2010] The Evidence, However, Is Clear…The Seroxat Scandal by Bob Fiddaman

Trade Names
Aropax or Oxetine in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil
Aroxat or Aroxat CR in Chile
Cebrilin in Latin America
Deroxat in Switzerland and France
Paroxat in Germany and Hungary
Paxil or Paxil CR in the United States, Canada, Argentina and Brazil
Pondera in Brazil
Seroxat in Austria, Belgium, Greece, Israel, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, the UK and China.

External
Cindy's blog
Bob Fiddaman blog

Seroxat Secrets

GSK : Licence To (K) ill

Birth Defects

Paxil

2009-12-21

Iowa

Mother Warns of Birth Defects with Paxil After Baby Is Born With Heart Ailments

Birth Defects

Paxil

2009-10-13

Pennsylvania

Glaxo Must Pay 2.5 Million: Birth Defects: First of 600+ cases

Birth Defects

Paxil

2009-09-12

U.S.A.

Civil Trial Begins Sept. 14: Test Case for More Than 600 Lawsuits

Birth Defects

Prozac & Paxil

2008-11-24

U.S.A.

++Women Who Took Prozac & Paxil During Pregnancy Had 3 to 4 Times As Many Babies With Birth Defects

Birth Defect

Paxil

2008-11-10

Canada

Lawsuit Over Son's Health Problems Due to Mother Taking Paxil During Pregnancy

Birth Defects

Paxil

2008-03-01

Canada

Mother Brings Lawsuit on Birth Defects of Daughter

Birth Defect

Paxil

2006-07-28

Texas

Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Child Born with Heart Defects