Thursday 29 January 2015

Quit-smoking drug suspected in 30 suicides in Canada

Quit-smoking drug suspected in 30 suicides in Canada


Champix is suspected of playing a major role in the deaths of 44 patients — 30 of them by suicide — since the popular stop-smoking drug was approved in Canada in 2007, a Vancouver Sun investigation has found. The Pfizer drug has also been linked to more than 1,300 incidents of suicide attempts or thoughts, depression, and aggression/anger across the country in the past seven years.

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