Antidepressants: Addiction and Withdrawal

http://www.cchrint.org/psychdrugdangers How antidepressants are documented to cause severe withdrawal and addiction, featuring attorney Karen Barth Menzies, who has been at the forefront of the SSRI antidepressant litigation for more than a decade against defendants such as GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Eli Lilly in cases involving antidepressant-induced suicide, withdrawal and birth defects. In 2003, she was appointed Lead Counsel for the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the Paxil Products Liability Litigation. She was appointed co-liaison counsel in the Paxil birth defect case in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Karen has testified twice before FDA advisory boards as well as the California State Legislature on the safety concerns regarding the SSRI antidepressants and the manufacturers' misconduct. For studies and warnings on antidepressants visit http://www.cchrint.org/psychdrugdangers/