The manufacturer of the nation’s second-best-selling anti-depressant must pay $8 million to the relatives of a man who killed himself and three others after taking the drug Paxil, jurors said.
Jurors in U.S. District Court considering the wrongful death civil suit returned a verdict against SmithKline Beecham today. They received the case Tuesday afternoon.
Relatives of Donald Schell, 60, claim the man, originally from Gillette, Wyo., took two Paxil tablets before shooting his wife, their daughter, his granddaughter and himself to death on Feb. 13, 1998.
The survivors’ lead attorney, Andy Vickery, had asked the jury to award a total of $25 million in damages.
abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117410
www.independent.co.uk/voices/antidepressants-side-effects-psychosis-nice-terror-attack-german-wings-pilot-extremism-terrorism-a7191566.html
“Just two years after Prozac came onto the market, a 48-year-old man, Joseph Wesbecker, went into his workplace with a gun, killing eight and injuring 12 before killing himself. The drug company, Eli Lilly, paid vast amounts of money to the families of victims on condition they keep quiet. A few years later there were 170 claims against Eli Lilly from people who claimed similar instances of violence and suicide.”
School shootings:
Dr David Healy a psychiatrist has calculated that comfortably over 90% of these school shootings have prescribed psychoactive dissociative drugs involved.
www.wnd.com/2012/12/psych-meds-linked-to-90-of-school-shootings/
Michael Moore on what wasn’t included in bowling for columbine
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=DpinCRaAQOk
healthland.time.com/2011/01/07/top-ten-legal-drugs-linked-to-violence/
Pharma companies cover up:
“GSK had evidence paroxetine increases the risk of suicide by older users by as much as 670 percent, yet failed to include that on the warning label.”
www.reuters.com/article/us-gsk-lawsuit/gsk-must-pay-3-million-in-generic-paxil-suicide-lawsuit-u-s-jury-idUSKBN17M2SH
“a July 1985 in-house analysis by Eli Lilly in which the company found a large statistically significant increase in suicide attempts for patients taking Prozac during their placebo controlled clinical trials”
breggin.com/studies/EliLillyWithheldProzacDocuments.pdf
Lead investigator of the eli lilly suicide trials at a congressional testimony
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBJfZtB_3cc&t=159s
h/t cispanda