Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives

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Roughly, one in ten Americans have taken prozac, Zoloft, Paxil or a similar antidepressant. Yet, very few of the patients who take these drugs are aware of the dangers, or that safer alternatives exist. This text documents the side-effects associated with these and other serotonin-boosting medications. Side-effects include neurological disorders, such as facial and body tics; sexual dysfunction in up to 60 percent of users; debilitating withdrawal symptoms, including visual hallucinations, electric-shock like sensations in the brain, and dizziness, nausea and anxiety; and a decrease of antidepressant effectiveness. Also in this book, Dr Glenmullen indicates through his research that there is a link between these drugs and suicide and violence. This is a guide to the safe treatment of depression and other psychiatric problems.

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Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. Yale School of Medicine, author of How We Die and The Mysteries Within The much-needed corrective to the sensationalism of the false prophets of Prozac and the zealots of Zoloft...This is the book that sets the record straight. Janet Maslin The New York Times An important, deeply troubling examination of the means by which these drugs have become so widely disseminated, and the possible long-term toll they may take...As readable as it is alarming.

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Joseph Glenmullen,M.D., a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is on the staff of Harvard University Health Services and is in private practice in Harvard Square. He is the author of Sexual Mysteries. A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Glenmullen lives with his wife and three children in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and can be found on the web at: www.glenmullen.com