It was good to see the recent UK article about SSRI-induced alcohol cravings (article link shared in our recent post below).
More than 4 years ago, MISSD presented to the Hazelden Betty Ford Center about this very important health topic. View our presentation to learn more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xs0u7cdiSE.
“Tony suffered from a little-known side-effect of SSRIs: they can turn some people with no history of alcoholic dependence into full-on alcoholics.
‘Taking an antidepressant caused me to develop an alcohol use disorder, which stripped me of my ability to control or stop my consumption of alcohol,’ he recalls. It caused me to black-out after just a few pints and my behaviour changed to a scary degree.’
Tony’s experience is far from unique. Read the full article at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13996393/antidepressants-alcoholic-effect.html.
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Risks of self-harm, suicide, and violence–to include iatrogenic homicides, were known for decades by the pharmaceutical companies. This article is an excellent summary of how such out-of-character violence is hidden and dismissed. “Before marketing the companies ran two week healthy volunteer trials, in which people, like Traci Johnson, became suicidal and aggressive. So companies knew adverse events were coming from which doctors needed to be shielded – especially as no-one would get anything less than a toxic dose.”