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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND. An independent report prepared by Dr. Charles Medawar of
the World Health Organization concludes that Prozac may be addictive, is not as
effective as originally hoped, and has significant side effects. In the 10
years that Prozac and other selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
have been on sale in Britain almost 18,000 reports of adverse effects have been
filed by general practitioners. Adds Dr. Ralph Edwards of the Collaborative
Centre for International Drug Monitoring in Sweden "...there's something strange
going on with a drug when you have a huge number of side effects reported but
little done about it." Dr. Malcolm Lader at the Institute of Psychiatry in
London feels that reports of withdrawal symptoms when discontinuing SSRIs may be
exaggerated but does agree that the effectiveness of Prozac and other SSRIs has
proved to be disappointing.
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