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  NAMI | Prozac (fluoxetine)
Prozac (fluoxetine) is an antidepressant medication originally approved by the FDA in 1987 and currently available for the treatment of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and bulimia nervosa.
Prozac is believed to work by blocking the reabsorption of serotonin, a neurotransmitter or chemical messenger in the brain.
Prozac is used to treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and bulimia nervosa.
www.nami.org /Content/ContentGroups/Helpline1/Prozac_(fluoxetine).htm   (976 words)

  
 PROZAC Drugstore : Prozac Pharmacy : Antidepressant Medicine
Prozac puts the zing back into your life, where you might have felt something was missing, while at the same time, Prozac helps others avoid compulsive behaviors such as over eating, bulimia and leaving agitating behaviors behind.
Prozac belong to the group of anti depressants such as SSRI, which is also known as fluoxentine, and as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
Prozac is a pill that is taken orally, only as prescription mediation to give you the relief you need from feelings that prevent you from leading a full and functioning life.
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 CNN.com - FDA approves 'generic Prozac' for sale - August 2, 2001
The patent on Prozac was to have expired February 2, but the FDA extended it six months because Lilly was conducting research on using the drug in children.
Prozac is not approved by the FDA for children but it is widely prescribed off-label for childhood depression, obsessive compulsive disorders, anxiety, and some eating disorders.
Prozac, patented in 1977 and launched in 1987, is one of the biggest-selling drugs in history.
archives.cnn.com /2001/HEALTH/08/02/prozac.barr.0904/index.html   (568 words)

  
 Prozac, Fluoxetine hydrochloride, side effects, drug interactions, overdose, dosage
Prozac is prescribed for the treatment of depression--that is, a continuing depression that interferes with daily functioning.
Prozac is approved for treating major depression in children 8 years and older and for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder in children 7 years and older.
Prozac should be used with caution if you have a history of mania or seizures.
www.pdrhealth.com /drug_info/rxdrugprofiles/drugs/pro1362.shtml   (1762 words)

  
 a prozac manifesto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
prozac is not speed (though some people experience some agitation on it).
prozac is not a cure -- it simply lifts disabling depression enough so you can deal with the issues underlying the depression.
prozac does not make people any more likely to be suicidal or homicidal -- there are *no* well-controlled, well-documented studies showing that it does.
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Prozac is a drug used medically in the treatment of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and many other disorders.
Prozac should be used with caution if you have a history of seizures.
Prozac can occasionally cause decreased appetite and weight loss, especially in depressed people who are already underweight and in those with bulimia.
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 Fluoxetine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prozac was invented at Eli Lilly by a team headed by Dr. Ray W. Fuller, with Drs.
Eli Lilly's Prozac was approved by the FDA on December 29, 1987 and introduced in the US at the beginning of 1988.
Advertisements for Prozac have claimed for years that the medication works by correcting a chemical imbalance in the brain, a claim that is not supported by the product label and has been confirmed as false by the head of the FDA psychopharmacological drugs committee.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prozac   (2046 words)

  
 Prozac Information from Drugs.com
While you are taking Prozac you will need to be monitored for worsening symptoms of depression and/or suicidal thoughts during the first weeks of treatment, or whenever your dose is changed.
Prozac affects chemicals in the brain that may become unbalanced and cause depression, panic, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
Prozac is used to treat major depressive disorder, bulimia nervosa (an eating disorder) obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).
www.drugs.com /prozac.html   (1908 words)

  
 Prozac Online, Description, Chemistry, Ingredients - Fluoxetine Hcl - RxList Monographs
Anyone considering the use of Prozac or any other antidepressant in a child or adolescent must balance this risk with the clinical need.
Prozac is approved for use in pediatric patients with MDD and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
The average risk of such events in patients receiving antidepressants was 4%, twice the placebo risk of 2%.
www.rxlist.com /cgi/generic/fluoxetine.htm   (403 words)

  
 What is Prozac?
Prozac (generic name fluoxetine) belongs to a family of medicines called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
Prozac works to regulate the balance of a chemical called serotonin in the brain.
Prozac is usually taken in the morning to prevent trouble sleeping at night, a common side effect of the drug.
www.drugstore.com /qxa1360_332828_sespider-what_is_prozac.htm   (304 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Health | Medical notes | Prozac
It was initially hailed as a miracle cure, but became a victim of its own success as patients who were not clinically depressed demanded the drug as a "quick fix" for their personal problems.
Prozac (fluoxetine) is one drug in a family of antidepressants called selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
Eli Lilly, the makers of Prozac, argued that in no case studied by the FDA did Prozac actually lead to a suicide, and that depressed people were probably prone to suicidal thoughts regardless of what medication they took.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/health/medical_notes/259747.stm   (547 words)

  
 Prozac - Menopause
Prozac is used for endogenous depression that consists of depressed mood, low energy, low self-esteem, changes in appetite or sleep, loss of interest in usual activities, decreased sex drive, extreme fatigue, suicidal thoughts, feelings of worthlessness or guilt, slowed thinking and decreased ability to concentrate.
Like all antidepressants, Prozac is supposed to affect the balance of neurotransmitters (chemical signals) in the brain that control mood.
Prozac is the first of a new class of drugs that zeroes in on serotonin and blocks its removal from its site of action on neurons.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art22544.asp   (840 words)

  
 Prozac Side Effects, and Drug Interactions - Fluoxetine Hcl - RxList Monographs
Multiple doses of Prozac had been administered to 10,782 patients with various diagnoses in US clinical trials as of May 8, 1995.
Treatment-emergent adverse events in clinical trials with Prozac Weekly were similar to the adverse events reported by patients in clinical trials with Prozac daily.
Prozac has not been systematically studied, in animals or humans, for its potential for abuse, tolerance, or physical dependence.
www.rxlist.com /cgi/generic/fluoxetine_ad.htm   (2414 words)

  
 Prozac (fluoxetine) - The Crazy Meds run-down
Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) is the only SSRI (and modern antidepressant in general) approved for use by the under-18 set for depression, probably due to its long half-life and lower potency.
In fact switching to Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) from another SSRI or Effexor (venlafaxine) is a good way of dealing with the discontinuation syndrome of the meds with the shorter half-lives.
Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) is the weakest of the SSRIs, and has the longest half-life, a combination that makes it the best SSRI to start with and the only one approved for use with kids.
www.crazymeds.org /prozac.html   (3446 words)

  
 Prozac Mania - The Dark Side of Antidepressants
She said she knew Prozac would make it easy and in a way she thought it was God's will that she was put on it again.
Dad stopped taking Prozac because of the sever mania he developed while on Prozac, he wasn't told not to just stop that he needed to be weaned off, after he went cold turkey he went through a sever withdrawal which the doctors said was a recurrent depression and put him back on 20mgs of Prozac.
Dr who originally prescribed for her depression referred her to psychiatrist to oversee Prozac prescription when we complained that she was doing peculiar things in the house such as laying items out in piles, collecting newspapers and putting things like T-towels on the floor in patterns etc...
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Prozac was originally developed in 1972 by Bryan B. Molley, David T. Wong, Ray W. Foller, and other research scientists employed by Eli Lilly and Company (Fieve, 1994, p.
Prozac increases the levels of serotonin the brain.
Some other disorders Prozac is useful for as stated in the book Everything you need to know about Prozac are as follows: eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia, obesity, body dysmorphic disorder, and alcoholism.
anxietydisorders.biz   (1136 words)

  
 The Fda Ban Of L-Tryptophan: Politics, Profits And Prozac
The fact that the FDA ban of L-Tryptophan and the Newsweek Prozac cover story occurred within four days of each other went unnoticed by both the media and the public.
The action of Prozac and L-Tryptophan are both involved with serotonin, but in totally different ways.
Prozac, as well as other new anti-depressant drugs such as Paxil and Zoloft, attempt to enhance levels of serotonin by working on whatever amounts of it already exists in the body (these drugs are known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors).
www.lef.org /fda/fdaban95.html   (1468 words)

  
 Use of Prozac in Animals for Selected Dermatological and Behavioral Conditions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Prozac (fluoxetine) has received a great deal of attention this past year for its use in the treatment of pet dermatological and behavioral disorders.
In 1990, Shoulberg described the use of Prozac in ALD and Rapoport published papers in non-veterinary journals on Prozac, Anafranil and Zoloft.
Prozac, Anafranil and Zoloft are selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in a class known as heterocyclic antagonists.
www.dermapet.com /articles/art-06.html   (4003 words)

  
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You know how Prozac, along with the rest of the class of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), works to harm your health and immune system.
What's already known is how Prozac "relieves" depression by stimulating the growth of new brain cells in a region of the brain known as the dentate gyrus.
Prozac has an effect in the second phase of development, kick-starting the production of amplifying neural progenitors (ANPs), an intermediate form of immature stem cells that eventually become mature neurons.
www.mercola.com /blog/2006/jun/1/how_prozac_works_in_your_brain   (409 words)

  
 Prozac.com - Prozac Safety Facts from Eli Lilly and Company
PROZAC is one of the the world's most widely prescribed antidepressants; it has been prescribed to more than 54 million people worldwide.
PROZAC, Prozac® Weekly™, generic versions of PROZAC, and Sarafem® contain the same active ingredient, fluoxetine hydrochloride.
PROZAC is approved for use in patients under the age of 18.
www.prozacweekly.com /how_prozac/safety_facts.jsp?reqNavId=2.5   (509 words)

  
 THE STORY BEHIND PROZAC...
After Prozac's harmful effects began to be exposed, the reaction of Lilly was rabid and in alignment with the strategy of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PMA): to destroy all critics.
In 1985, after tests of Prozac found the drug not to be significantly more effective than the placebo, an FDA statistician suggested to Lilly that the test results be evaluated differently - causing the results to come out more favorably for Prozac.
The story behind Prozac is another typical example of how poisonous and ineffective drugs are approved and protected in the United States by the Drug Trust's important ally, the Food and Drug Administration.
www.pnc.com.au /~cafmr/newsl/prozac.html   (2005 words)

  
 Prozac, Part 1
Nearly a decade has passed since Prozac, the antidepressant drug, was introduced to the market and quickly achieved the label of a "wonder drug." During that time, Prozac has indeed helped many people who suffer from severe depression.
Prozac also can cause extreme agitation, and this condition often is associated with akathisia.
It should be noted that in several studies, the findings suggested that Prozac did not lead to suicidal preoccupation or found that the drug was not associated with an increased risk of suicidal acts.
www.garynull.com /Documents/prozac1.htm   (3149 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Health | Prozac 'found in drinking water'
The DWI said the Prozac (known technically as fluoxetine) was unlikely to pose a health risk as it was so "watered down".
The Environment Agency report concluded that the Prozac in the water table could be potentially toxic and said the drug was a "potential concern".
The exact amount of Prozac in the nation's drinking water is not known.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/health/3545684.stm   (287 words)

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