Paxil Lawsuits

Paxil is an antidepressant that has undergone scrutiny ever since an FDA warning was issued in late 2003. As the number of people diagnosed with depression continues to increase, with figures tripling since the 1980s, the competition between drug companies trying to capitalize on the growing market has also increased. Despite the fact that over half the drug company studies through the 1990s showed no more effectiveness than a sugar pill, the use of antidepressants like Paxil continued to prosper.

In the summer of 2003, British regulators issued a warning to doctors to avoid prescribing Paxil to children due to the new data linking the antidepressant to suicide attempts. For thousands of parents learning that a threefold increase of suicide existed because of the use of Paxil, the news was frightening and upsetting. Other parents that had already seen their children's ill response to Paxil, in addition to some researchers and attorneys, finally felt like progress was being made in their long pursuit to get Paxil restricted or banned. Paxil has been linked to deadly side effects that some people claim was allowed to continue because the company manipulated data to diminish the appearance of suicide risk to the FDA.

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