Biting the Magic Bullet: A Look at the SSRI Litigation





photo-3icPendicsychotherapeutic drugs are the number one class of drugs in the United States with sales of over $23 billion in 2001 (considerably higher than drugs used to treat cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes).1 Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors ('SSRIs' -- Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil in particular), constitute a large, if not the majority, proportion of the psychotherapeutic class of drugs making it the number one therapeutic class. (Id. 56-57.)

The extraordinary increase in the psychotherapeutic drug market appears to have begun with the advent of the SSRIs, the first of which was Eli Lilly Co.'s Prozac. Coincidentally, since …






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