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Chantix Joins Laundry List of Drugs with Suicidal Side Effects

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Washington, D.C.: Chantix has been known for several months to pose a dangerous risk of suicidal mental episodes to patients that have a history of depression. But, now the Food and Drug Administration has tagged Chantix onto a laundry list of drugs that have suicidal thoughts as a side effect. Since January of this year, physicians throughout the country have been observing patients to be certain that no suicidal episodes occur from using the smoking cessation drug. They have been closely monitoring who they prescribe the drug to on a regular basis. So far, physicians have been looking closely at patients with a history of mental depression as people that would not be viable candidates for taking the drug, Chantix. The new finding from the FDA suggests that suicidal thoughts and episodes may be a side effect of the drug itself not necessarily springing up just from depression already being experienced by patients on a regular and consistent basis.

Full post as published by Lawyers and Settlements on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).