50,000 suicides on Prozac
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Internal documents show that in 1990, Eli Lilly scientists were pressured by corporate executives to alter records on physician experiences with Prozac, changing mentions of suicide attempts to "overdose" and suicidal thoughts to "depression."
Sliced bread was patented by Mrs. P. Ride, a mother of 5, on 1 April 1954
During the early 20th century, books and pamphlets were circulated, describing how evil foreigners were kidnapping young innocent girls who had left their farm to live in the city. The stories involved allegedly true accounts of some of the thousands of girls who were believed to have been lured into a life of prostitution.
Three years before Prozac received approval by the US Food and Drug Administration in late 1987, the German BGA, that country's FDA equivalent, had such serious reservations about Prozac's safety that it refused to approve the antidepressant based on Lilly's studies showing that previously nonsuicidal patients who took the drug had a fivefold higher rate of suicides and suicide attempts than those on older antidepressants, and a threefold higher rate than those taking placebos.
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At lower doses it has a mild, dreamy feeling similar to nitrous oxide. Users report feeling floaty and slightly outside their body. Numbness in the extremities is also common.
Higher doses produce a hallucinogenic (trippy) effect, and may cause the user to feel very far away from their body.
This experience is often referred to as entering a "K-hole" and has been compared to a near death experience with sensations of rising above one's body. Many users find the experience spiritually significant, while others find it frightening.
While in a K-hole it is very difficult to move. People usually remain seated or lying down during the experience.
Hitler tried to conquer the world in the 1930s and 1940s. He killed a ridiculous number of people, way more than his share, lots of Jewish people (who pretty much unanimously will tell you that they hate him), lots of gypsies, russians, french, poles, brits, americans, etc (they all pretty much hate Hitler too). Finally the British and the Americans and the Russians defeated him (not to mention those crazy vengeful Poles).
Eli Lilly's own figures, in reports made available to the Boston Globe, indicate that 1 in 100 previously nonsuicidal patients who took the drug in early clinical trials developed a severe form of anxiety and agitation called akathisia, causing them to attempt or commit suicide during the studies.
"And nobody's there to stop them, nobody prevents it from happening?"
"Of course not. These things happen, so there's obviously nobody stopping them."
Overall, the German submarine service lost more than 25,000 crew members to death and another 5,000 to capture: a 75 percent casualty rate that exceeded the losses of any other service arm in any nation.
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40% of England died in the Black Plague
40% of the world's Jewish population died in the Holocuast
40% of Africans transported in slave ships to America died before they arrived
Though Lilly has steadfastly defended the drug's safety and downplayed studies linking Prozac to suicide, the patent for the new Prozac, R-fluoxetine, expected to be marketed by Lilly beginning in 2002, notes that the new version will not produce several existing side effects including "akathisia, suicidal thoughts, and self-mutilation," which the patent calls "one of its more significant side effects."
The Countess Bathory was imprisoned in her own castle, having been found guilty of the deaths of up to 650 young servant women who were entrusted to her care. The legend is that she bathed in their blood to maintain her youth and beauty. She died in 1610, and inspired myriad vampire tales and movies, including Hammer's Countess Dracula, starring Ingrid Pitt.
"Most of the victims were products of the Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler's lebensborn or "fountain of life" policy, which actively promoted sexual relations between German troops and women classed as true Aryans - such as the Norwegians. The children conceived were taken from their mothers to be raised as "racially pure" citizens for the Third Reich."
Lilly officials continue to defend the drug's effectiveness, saying its track record is borne out by the fact it is still the most widely prescribed drug of its kind. In a written statement, Jeff Newton, a Lilly spokesman, said: "There is no credible evidence that establishes a causal link between Prozac and violent or suicidal behavior. There is, to the contrary, scientific evidence showing that Prozac and medicines like it actually protect against such behaviors."
on the one hand, our experience is perpetually mediated by television and advertising, distancing us from physical reality. At the same time, we are inundated by the excruciating memoiristic detail of other people's lives, on talk shows, in tell-alls, before impeachments. The less we feel our neighbors' physical presence, the more we seem to know of their sex lives
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Using figures on Prozac both from Lilly and independent research, however, Dr. David Healy, an expert on the brain's serotonin system and director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Wales, estimated that "probably 50,000 people have committed suicide on Prozac since its launch, over and above the number who would have done so if left untreated."
"Nothing will fit if we assume a place for it." --Robert Creeley