Robinson, who is a member of a federal class-action lawsuit against
GlaxoSmithKline, said he broke his four-year addiction in 2002 and began
organizing the protest four months ago, starting in Philadelphia because
"this is their corporate castle in the U.S."
Standing with his wife in front of the drugmaker's 16th Street offices,
Robinson, 45, a former general contractor from Chattanooga, Tenn., said he
was not opposed to prescription drugs or to psychiatry overall. He rejected
the actor Tom Cruise's well-publicized criticism of psychiatry as
"pseudoscience."
"I don't think the use of psychiatric drugs is necessarily bad," Robinson
said.
Ryan Yorke, 17, a protester and former Paxil user from Clark, N.J., blamed
Paxil for episodes of rage and depression he said he felt since first taking
the drug following an anxiety attack. "Drugs, they're not all bad. But you
see the money the companies are making and putting money before human life,"
he said.
Robinson, with about 10 protesters supporting him, said he planned to remain
outside GlaxoSmithKline until tomorrow and has rented an airplane to fly
over the area trailing a banner opposing Paxil.
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