SHELLEY JOFRE (BBC) blows Mark Harvey's Seroxat case to pieces

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Jeremy Bryce said:



2.30 in Jofre says - ” read a little bit in news paper about patients complaints” year 2000 about ” Seroxat difficult to withdraw from” .. Jofre found it intriguing Jofre had only just started working on Panorama at that stage



3.30 in ” Jofre calls SSRI’s “SELECTIVE Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors”



4.14 Jofre knew little of how the pharmcutical industry worked



4 .30 in Ed says - lets look at antidepressant story



4 45 Jofre says although problems with whole class of antidepressants we (bbc) decided to concentrate on Seroxat Why we narrowed down on Seroxat 1 because it was made by GSK 2 all the drugs in class cause suicidal thinking on dose change 3 Seroxat had a unique problem of withdrawal BECAUSE IT WAS LONGER ACTING … we decided to focus research into this drug



6.00 in - 40 min Panorama film took Shelley Jofre 8 months to make



6.10 in - It’s not something you do lightly WE WERE TAKING ON the worlds second largest drug company



7.30 We were talking to the lawyer the whole way through production



9.30 in - Jofre says “we took a punt” on Dr David Healy