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Zoloft is manufactured and marketed by Pfizer, Inc. It is distributed throughout the world, although usually under a different name. For instance, in the United Kingdom it is called Lustral.
Zoloft belongs to a class of drugs known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors or “SSRIs.” Other drugs in this class are Prozac (generically known as fluoxetine), manufactured and marketed by Eli Lilly and Company, and Paxil (also known as paroxetine) which was created by SmithKline Beecham Corporation, now known as Glaxo SmithKline. Although each of these manufacturers admit they do not know how their respective drugs work, each claim that they help to correct a “chemical imbalance of the brain.” The assumption for each of these drugs is that if a person is depressed (each and every depressed person), they have a reduced number of a neurotransmitters in the brain called serotonin. As one well-known psychiatrist put it: “[SSRIs] are not correcting a biochemical imbalance, these drugs create severe imbalances in the brain.” ... “The idea that human suffering, psychological suffering, is biochemical is strictly a promotional campaign, perhaps the most successful in the history of the world, created by the drug companies. We do not even have a technology, a scientific technology, for measuring what happens inside the brain ... it is literally a fabrication.
In addition to depression, SSRIs are marketed for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (“OCD”), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (“PTSD”), Social Anxiety Disorder (“SAD”) and Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder (“PMDD”) and Panic Disorder. The various SSRI companies have also experimented with their respective SSRIs for other indications including obesity, drug abuse and smoking cessation, however these indications have not been marketed. For the existing indications alone though, Pfizer, Glaxo SmithKline and Lilly collectively make over Six Billion Dollars ($6,000,000,000) per year from SSRIs.
Pfizer, like all drug manufacturers, is, by regulatory mandate, required to disclose the side effects of Zoloft in the package insert that usually comes in the box containing the pills. This same information is provided to physicians in the pharmaceutical encyclopedia called the Physicians Desk Reference (“PDR”). The package insert and information contained within the PDR is also known as the drug’s “label.”
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