Medicines such as Prozac and Forest's Celexa work only on serotonin.

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Last year, antidepressant medicines such as Prozac and Paxil came under scrutiny as to whether they actually might increase the chance of suicide in children and adolescents.

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With such a prize at stake, all it may take to get more drug companies into the business of addiction, according to Dr Volpicelli, is one success story, such as Prozac.

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Other similar drugs, such as Prozac, also work.

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So-called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft, gained widespread use on the theory that depressed people suffer from a deficit of the brain chemical serotonin.

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For some, the illness is a medically treatable imbalance in brain neurochemistry a serotonin deficiency that can be remedied by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as fluoxetine, better known as Prozac, which has been prescribed to more than 35m people worldwide since its launch in 1988.

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Healy, author of books such as Let Them Eat Prozac and Pharmageddon, offers a methodology for testing prayer that is no less intriguing for its firmly tongue-in-cheek underpinnings.

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Blockbusters, such as Eli Lilly's Prozac, went off-patent and drug makers came under public pressure to soften their stance on drug pricing and patent enforcement in poor countries.

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Your doctor may prescribe one of several selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as sertraline (Zoloft), paroxetine (Paxil) or fluoxetine (Prozac), to help delay ejaculation.

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