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Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Kelly Patricia O Meara can't even spell Andy Vickery's name - so why would you believe anything else this "journalist" claims

http://www.prozactruth.com/article_british_ban_spur_fda.htm

Andy Vickory of the Houston law firm of Vickory and Waldner has spent nearly a decade representing families who believe they have been harmed by SSRIs. He was the lead attorney in a landmark decision in the 2001 case of Donald Schell, a retired oil-rig worker who had taken Paxil for just two days when he shot and killed his wife, daughter and granddaughter before turning the gun on himself. The jury in the Schell case found that Paxil, made by GlaxoSmithKline, "can cause some individuals to commit suicide and/or homicide" and awarded the surviving family members $8 million in damages.




Vickory tells Insight, "I'm pleased with the decision in the U.K., but I don't see anything coming from the FDA. I think they're going to stall. I've devoted the last eight or 10 years of my life to this issue and no telling how many years of my life trying to make every effort to understand these issues so ordinary people can understand what's at stake. And now I've been told by the FDA that I'll get just three minutes before the committee. There's not a whole hell of a lot you can say in three minutes about such an important issue."



Although Vickory is hopeful about the United Kingdom's decision on the SSRIs, he is openly confused about the panel's decision on Prozac. "It is astonishing," says Vickory, "that the U.K. didn't ban Prozac. There was an article in the British Journal of Psychiatry about a large-scale study - some 2,770 or so patients - on SSRIs. And what they found was that fluoxetine [Prozac] has the highest risk of deliberate self-harm. The study shows that if you take Prozac you are 6.6 times more likely deliberately to harm yourself. So why in the face of that data the U.K. would ban all other SSRIs but not Prozac is astounding. The answer for public consumption is that none of the other drugs being considered by the U.K. even showed any efficacy. My response to the British would be, 'Okay, if that's your decision, since you know it also triggers suicide in some, at least make the manufacturer put a warning label on it.'"

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