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A report in 2001 described a lawsuit by the widow of a man whose husband committed suicide after taking Prozac for only 3 days. He threw the pills away, but when he committed suicide 4 days later, high levels of Prozac’s active ingredient, fluoxetine, were found in his blood. The Prozac lawsuit argued that Eli Lilly knew and concealed that the drug was hard for some people to metabolize. A widower also sued for damages for the suicide of his wife after she took Prozac for migraines.

Some people claimed that Prozac had made them commit violent acts. One 27-year-old man claimed that Prozac made him fire 20 times into a bar, killing 2 and injuring 3. The so-called Prozac defense was successful in at least one case. In 2000, an insurance agent who robbed a bank was acquitted by a Connecticut judge because the defendant had been prescribed Prozac and Xanax.

A series of articles on Eli Lilly’s defense of these suits claims that the manufacturer managed to settle hundreds cases of Prozac litigation for as little as $50 million, which was the amount of Prozac sales in about one week at the height of its success. Eli Lilly’s success in these cases is all the more surprising, because documents obtained from Eli Lilly during that litigation indicate that the manufacturer knew about the danger of suicide as early as 1990 and that Eli Lilly paid $90 million to acquire a formulation that would not produce as many suicidal thoughts.

Check out the following articles for more information about Prozac, filing an Prozac lawsuit and finding an Prozac attorney.

• For more information about Prozac, see Drug Overview: Prozac Side Effects and Claims
• For more information about Prozac side effects, see Prozac Side Effects – Suicide & PPHN
• To find out more about the FDA warning, see Prozac Side Effects and Risks
• For more information about Prozac updates, see Prozac Information and Warnings
• To learn more about Prozac attorneys and how to find one, see Hiring a Prozac Attorney and Lawyer

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