-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: Ian Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, April 30, 1999 4:35 AM Subject: Re: Littleton & Drug Side Effects On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:49:49 -0400, Ian Goddard wrote: >The Washington Post (4/29/99, A1) reports that Columbine >gunman Eric Harris was on a prescription antidepressant, >a new drug called "Luvox." A net search finds that Luvox >"can activate mania in susceptible patients" (source: >http://www.begin.com/redoak/medications/luvox.html) > >The manufacturer's prescription insert says: "LUVOX Tablets >should be used cautiously in patients with a history of mania." >http://www.ocdresource.com/ocdresource.nsf/pages/Diagnosis+Luvox > >Symptoms of "mania" include: "Provocative, intrusive, or aggressive >behavior" (see: http://mentalhelp.net/articles/grohol/bipolar.htm) It's important to note that The Washington Post article says Eric Harris was the leader of the two dead gunmen. So Dylan Klebold was following his friend who was on a psychotropic drug that's known to activate mania, which can manifest itself as aggressive behavior. Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, author of "Prozac: Panacea or Pandora?," lists "aggressive or violent behavior" as a side effect of antidepressants such as Luvox. Dr Tracy states that long- term users of antidepressants can loose the distinction between reality and dream. She says some patients enter an "anesthetic sleep state" where they do things that later they can't believe or recall they did (see: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/3568). Searching the MEDLINE database at the National Library of Medicine website (http://igm.nlm.nih.gov) I found a study by doctors from the Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine in Jerusalem, Israel that came to this conclusion about Luvox, or fluvoxamine: "Our case series suggests that fluvoxamine may have the ability to induce or unmask manic behavior in depressed patients. Clinicians are alerted to monitor for this 'switching' effect..." TITLE: Fluvoxamine-associated manic behavior: a case series. AUTHORS: Dorevitch A; Frankel Y; Bar-Halperin A; Aronzon R; Zilberman L SOURCE: Ann Pharmacother 1993 Dec;27(12):1455-7 CITATION IDS: PMID: 8305775 UI: 94138126 Some other studies I found @ http://igm.nlm.nih.gov : TITLE: Mania and fluvoxamine. AUTHORS: Burrai C, et al. SOURCE: Am J Psychiatry. 1991 Sep;148(9):1263-4. CIT. IDS: PMID: 1909099 UI: 91353783 TITLE: Fluvoxamine-associated mania/hypomania in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. AUTHORS: Jefferson JW, et al. SOURCE: J Clin Psychopharmacol. 1991 Dec;11(6):391-2. CIT. IDS: PMID: 1770160 UI: 92121482 There are a dozen or more studies on Prozac-induced mania (http://igm.nlm.nih.gov). 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