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Coroner calls for warning note on Prozac packets
By Sean O'Neill
Medicines - Eli Lilly
PROZAC should be repackaged with clearer instructions to patients and
their doctors about the drug's possible side-effects, a coroner said
yesterday.
John Owen called for more detailed labelling of the drug after hearing
evidence in the case of a farmer who shot himself two weeks after he was
prescribed Prozac. Richard Wood, 46, became increasingly agitated and
frightened after being given the drug for depression.
Two days before his death, his wife Sally, 46, became so concerned that
she asked doctors if her husband's prescription could be changed. She
found his body lying in a pool of blood in the bedroom of their
farmhouse at Pantglas, Llanboidy, South Wales, where they had farmed for
19 years. After cleaning out the milking parlour Mr Wood had shot
himself in the forehead with his .22 rifle.
Mrs Wood told the inquest in Llanelli that her husband began "spiralling
downhill" after he began taking Prozac tablets daily in February 1998.
She said: "He got very frightened and agitated. He did not know what was
happening to him. He complained that there was a black cloud over him
and all he wanted to do was get out of it."
She said there was insufficient warning or guidance with Prozac, which
is taken by some 37 million patients worldwide, to explain how a patient
might react. When she sought to change her husband's prescription she
saw a locum rather than her family GP and was given an appointment for a
visit from a psychiatric nurse.
Mr Owen recorded a verdict that Mr Wood had killed himself while
suffering
from a depressive illness. He said there was insufficient evidence
about whether Prozac might have been a contributory factor in his death.
He said: "Perhaps Eli Lilly should re-examine the literature they supply
to doctors as well as their patients."
A spokesman for Eli Lilly, manufacturers of Prozac, said care of
patients was the responsibility of doctors. He said: "We provide a
patient information leaflet with Prozac and provide clinicians with the
best advice."
London Telegraph
11-3-99
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