Prozac Notes

Sue Grinsted was concerned about people offering her son illegal drugs. So imagine her surprise when the mail came and her son announced, “Hey, Mom, they sent me Prozac.”

Eli Lilly had been sending unsolicited drugs (via a drugstore chain) to “adults with histories of depression.” However, according to his parents, Michael—a teenager—had never suffered from depression, or taken antidepressants. Yet he received a very potent drug, in the mail, without a prescription (illegal distribution). That’s scarey.

—data taken from, “Prozac Mailed Unsolicited to a Teenager in Florida,” by Adam Liptak, July 21, 2002, The New York Times

“A young woman in her thirties who was moderately depressed over a divorce was given Prozac. Shortly thereafter, she walked up to the bedroom of her two sleeping daughters and shot them dead. The newspaper account of the incident noted that she was on Prozac, then immediately stated that this was thought to be coincidental.

I’m not convinced this tragedy wasn’t drug-related. Women just don’t go around shooting their sleeping children.”

—Julian Whitaker, MD, Editor of Health & Healing, May 1996, Vol. 6, #5, Phillips Publishing.