Posted by artemiss on October 8, 2004, at 13:50:16
In reply to Re: This is the Scary Article I was referring to, posted by invisiblemanpa on October 7, 2004, at 17:15:35
More food for thought about this article:
The article generalizes too much. We don't have enough background information of the people who committed these crimes while on these meds. I do know that Phil Hartman's wife was on cocaine and alcohol when she killed him and herself, so the Zoloft cannot be directly blamed. Alcohol and street drugs are known and proven to cause severe depression and violent tendencies. And then Monica Lewinksy? What's that about-it caused her to go down on the president? What kind of crime or violence is that? Please. And Princess Di's limo driver was proven to have high doses of alcohol in his system when he crashed. He was drunk, and the meds get blamed by this quack.
Also, like someone else said here, there is no data on the amounts of lives these meds have saved. They have helped many people not commit suicide and have a much better quality of life to help others.
So why doesn't the government ban alcohol? It was a much worse track record of crimes, violence and addiction than medications like Prozac and Zoloft. Anyone who is on these meds is told by the manufacturers and doctors not to combine it with high doses of street drugs or alcohol, so if someone does that, the drug cannot be blamed. It's like drinking pure cyanide to combine such a lethal dose of cocaine.
> Sorry, I did not mean to post the article, just the web link...just type in the title in any search engine.....I only meant to list on this site as food for thought..sometimes I think I visit this site and others and am getting information overload and getting freaked out over it..I know what works for one often does not work for others.I am just searching for some help to get my life back..as I read that article, my underlying thought was how many of the "suicidal or violent episodes" people listed had much deeper mental health issues??
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