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Prozac: the ‘Miracle’ drug – possible links to violence and sexual dysfunction?
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On March 26th 1990, Newsweek introduced Prozac to the world with a front cover photograph featuring a drug capsule under the headline “ A Breakthrough Drug for Depression”. In the same year, Eli Lilly (the makers) were sued by relatives and victims of a man who went on a killing spree after taking Prozac and the widow of rock singer Del Shannon who blamed her husband’s suicide on Prozac.A year later, famous US talk show host Donahue ran a TV program
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on “Prozac -Medication that Makes you Kill”. The program focussed on what happened in 1989 when an employee at a Kentucky printing plant killed eight of his fellow employees and wounded twelve others with an assault rifle before shooting himself. Taking issue with the critics, the FDA said that Prozac wasn’t necessarily the cause of these violent incidents, so the controversy gradually faded out. Most of the suits against Lilly since then have been settled out of court.
In 1997, Lilly launched a peppermint-flavoured brand of Prozac, targeting children aged twelve and below, and by the end of the 1990’s, sales of Prozac totalled $25 billion, with more than 34 million people were taking the drug. (Continued: Click HERE)
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Seminar on Terrorism ‘a Remarkable Success’
Over 70 people packed into a lecture hall at Birkbeck College, London on Sunday, 17 July for a seminar on the support of victims of terrorism, following the tragic events of 7/7.
The course focussed on the potentially life saving treatment of survivors of terrorist acts and therapeutic intervention with hypnotherapy.
Valerie Austin, Head of Austin Corporate, said: “Having been involved in the Tsunami earlier this year and been on the Underground on the day of the London bombing, I have a deep understanding of the impact of traumatic events like this on the average person.”
She continued: “Hypnotherapy has helped me to overcome some of the adverse effects, and I know it can help others. This was the reason I wanted to run the seminar. We expected only a small crowd of maybe 10 people but we were overwhelmed by the demand. Now, we are considering running an additional seminar for people who couldn’t make it.”
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