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The SSRI antidepressant makers are desperate to find new customers, so they recently have been focusing on capturing groups for which the drugs were usually considered off limits. The latest marketing coup managed to open up sales to roughly 614,000 American pilots.
SSRI Render UN-friendly Skies
Seeded on Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:36 PM EDT
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"The FAA should reverse its ruling before it's too late and hundreds of lives are lost when a pilot becomes impulsive, suicidal or violent--or just loses his sharpness--under the influence of antidepressant medication," said SSRI expert, Dr Peter Breggin, in an April 19, 2010 Huffington Post commentary.
Or, say fails to avoid a pocket of turbulence and injures 30 or 40 passengers resulting in an unscheduled stop, in Denver.
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#1 - Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:46 PM EDTIt is bad if people use medication and work in important work, at the same time. But sometimes that have to be that way, it is also true that some drugs are not so bad.
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But sometimes that have to be that way,
I don't speak for you, but for me and mine that statement is UNACCEPTABLE.
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Well, I would not use drugs in any case. I also think, that other people should not do that either.
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This article should have been read by a lot more people. There are so many things wrong with this picture that it would take days to type it all out...
Wow. Just...wow.
:( HD
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#2 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:16 PM EDTThanks for putting this in my queue, friend. Maybe this is what happened to that pilot that had that meltdown on JetBlue!
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There have been several instances in the last 5 years which a direct link to psychotropic drugs, SSRI, and/or tranquilizers have been a contributing factor to the deliberate downing of aircraft...passenger aircraft.
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