Thank the stars I woke up. I “knew” I could fly –until I woke up.

I stopped taking them immediately. A report was filed with my physician and with the pharmacy and Pfizer. I have a lovely letter from the company stating that “Pfizer has never claimed that it’s medications are risk free.”

Weird dreams and emotions people can deal with as a risk of a medication. Hallucinations and violence are not acceptable.

This drug should be pulled immediately.

http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic4/chantix_ad.htm
which states:

“…Following is a list of treatment-emergent adverse events reported by patients treated with CHANTIX during all clinical trials. The listing does not include those events already listed in the previous tables or elsewhere in labeling, those events for which a drug cause was remote, those events which were so general as to be uninformative, and those events reported only once which did not have a substantial probability of being acutely life-threatening…”

Whenever those clinical trial were undertaken, that was the date (which has to be before October 2006 when the network54 site reported) when Pfizer KNEW that these events happened.

It also includes the usual adverse PHYSICAL events that could not possibly have ANYTHING to do with ‘mental illness’ and in any event does anyone know of ANYONE in amongst the millions of people who have given up smoking either with no help, or with patches or gum, who have gotten the side effects listed for CHANTIX?

It IS the DRUG. It is not the smoker, or some underlying “hidden” illness. It happens when people start on CHANTIX, not before, not after and does not happen on millions of smokers giving up in any other way.

PFIZER’s CHANTIX or CHAMPIX is just another DANGEROUS DRUG very much like Zoloft - but marketed to get a different section of society to make a profit.

Transparency where life endangering effects are concerned would include immediately pointing those effects out, immediate and VOLUNTARY warning, etc.

You were right in your FIRST comment.

http://wwww.pharmalot.com/2008/01/pfizer-strengthens-suicide-warning-on-chantix-label/#respond

If I were a Pfizer agent I would be thanking some of you for falling for our ‘ tactics’ and so believing we are beginning to act honorably.

As I am NOT a Pfizer agent, I would like to remind you that Pfizer are NOT honorable and, for those of you who think they have suddenly and miraculously reformed their history of misconduct and lack of integrity in their scientific studies, would also like to draw your attention to the fact that in AT LEAST OCTOBER **2006** (and perhaps far earlier) Pfizer ALREADY knew that Chantix / Champix caused suicidal ideation, aggression, agitation, mood swings…etc….but didn’t get around to update the label until JANUARY 2008

Pfizer, as usual, waited to be caught out at what their drugs do before acting honorably (!). Had Pfizer actually BEEN honorable, then various Chantix / Champix suicides, and homicides such as that committed by Albrecht, would have been avoided. Had Albrecht been just an ordinary next door neighbour rather than a musician who had brought national attention to the matter, then there would still be no label update. Rather unlucky for Pfizer that it DID get brought to national attention because, while its really nothing but another psychiatric medication, nothing much different chemically than the usual unscientifically designed antidepressant or antipsychotic , it can’t so easily be blamed on the PATIENT as its not being promoted for ‘mental illness’.

People congratulating drug companies like Pfizer for honorable acts where there are none, are exactly what drug makers rely on and a big part of how they get away with it.

But MORE importantly, people who are seen to be trying to bring accountablility to the drug companies for the damage done by some of their drugs but who fail to research on others and end up endorsing the drug company as evidenced above when those drugs have been marketed and have caused deaths due to lack of honor on the part of the drug company involved…..are an even bigger asset to the drug companies, so please people, remember that and RESEARCH the facts on the drug you’re referring to before congratulating a drug company on its honorability. It can make things FAR worse if you don’t.

HERE is how I know PFIZER knew AT LEAST 15 months ago, and maybe even earlier:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/182310/message/1159916766/

“OCT 2006: ALERT TO SMOKERS. NEW ANTISMOKING DRUG IS **UNSAFE**

“….PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS. Frequent: Anxiety, Depression, Emotional disorder, Irritability, Restlessness. Infrequent: Aggression, Agitation, Disorientation, Dissociation, Libido decreased, Mood swings, Thinking abnormal. Rare: Bradyphrenia, Euphoric mood, Hallucination, Psychotic disorder, Suicidal ideation…”

Thank you Pfizer, you pushed your drug Chantix to the US, then as Champix to Europe and have caused suicides and homicides and of course ‘mental illness’ in people simply wanting to give up smoking who have been misinformed by industry influenced drug regulators etc. Now, as usual, having got it established on the market by keeping quiet, you simply do what you did with Zoloft (keeping things hidden for as long as you could get away with it, quite some time with Zoloft, huh? 1983) see page 2 of 2 here:
http://www.ssri-uksupport.com/PfizerZoloft1983.pdf
just as your competitors do with Paxil, Prozac, Efexor, etc, - you just add the odd VERY LATE LABEL when you’re caught out, and keep raking the $$$ in for years while people die, by paying out whoever in fines and/or bribes to ensure that the drugs will stay on the market no matter how many people die. Because you, like your equally unethical competitors, KNOW that once you’ve got it past the drug regulators (in whichever way you find works with whichever member you’re dealing with!) and onto the market it’ll make you money for years.

PFIZER, HONORABLE?

It would be a complete change about and would save many thousands of lives if they were.
But VERY sadly, they remain anything BUT honorable.

The DTC adverts work.

The best advice I can give you is to, monitor her 24/7 until it passes, no one knows how long it will take, individual cases have varied. Unfortunately you wont recve any compassionate support here!… You can find withdrawal support on http://www.paxilprogress.org great support, from a great group of folks. Good Luck