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Chantix Suicide Lawsuits (Texas Chantix Suicide
Lawyer)
Chantix
is a stop smoking aid or smoking cessation medication that
has been linked to mood and behavior changes in people that
use the drug. These behavior changes include suicidal
behavior and suicidal idealation. These changes are
especially problematic when Chantix is used in combination
with alcohol.
If you or a loved one have been taking
Chantix have attempted suicide, it is important to seek to
medical assistance. If you have questions regarding a
potential Chantix lawsuit for the death of a loved one,
please feel free to e-mail Texas Chantix Suicide Lawyer
Jason Coomer with your name & contact information.
Chantix FDA Actions and Warnings (Suicide
Claims)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) has issued a Public Health Advisory to alert health
care providers, patients, and caregivers to new safety
warnings concerning Chantix (varenicline), a prescription
medication used to help patients stop smoking. Initially,
the FDA had issued an Early Communication to the public and
health care providers that the agency was evaluating
postmarketing adverse event reports on Chantix related to
changes in behavior, agitation, depressed mood, suicidal
ideation, and actual suicidal behavior.
After further investigation the FDA has
determined based on adverse event reports that it appears
increasingly likely that there may be an association between
Chantix and serious neuropsychiatric symptoms. As a result,
FDA has requested that Pfizer, the manufacturer of Chantix,
elevate the prominence of this safety information to the
warnings and precautions section of the Chantix prescribing
information, or labeling. In addition, FDA is working with
Pfizer to finalize a Medication Guide for patients.
Chantix was approved by FDA in May 2006
as a smoking cessation drug. Chantix acts at sites in the
brain affected by nicotine and may help those who wish to
stop smoking by providing some nicotine effects to ease the
withdrawal symptoms and by blocking the effects of nicotine
from cigarettes if users resume smoking.
In the Public Health Advisory and a
Health Care Professional Sheet issued by the FDA, the FDA
emphasized the following safety information for patients,
caregivers, and health care professionals:
Patients should tell their health care
provider about any history of psychiatric illness prior to
starting Chantix. Chantix may cause worsening of current
psychiatric illness even if it is currently under control.
It may also cause an old psychiatric illness to reoccur. FDA
notes that patients with these illnesses were not included
in the studies conducted for the drug's approval.
Health care professionals, patients,
patients' families, and caregivers should be alert to and
monitor for changes in mood and behavior in patients treated
with Chantix. Symptoms may include anxiety, nervousness,
tension, depressed mood, unusual behaviors and thinking
about or attempting suicide. In most cases, neuropsychiatric
symptoms developed during Chantix treatment, but in others,
symptoms developed following withdrawal of varenicline
therapy.
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Patients should immediately report
changes in mood and behavior to their doctor.
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Vivid, unusual, or strange dreams may
occur while taking Chantix.
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Patients taking Chantix may
experience impairment of the ability to drive or operate
heavy machinery.
FDA will continue to update health care
professionals with new information from FDA's continuing
review or if new information is received on Chantix and
serious neuropsychiatric symptoms.
If you or a loved one have been taking
Chantix have attempted suicide, it is important to seek to
medical assistance. If you have questions regarding a
potential Chantix lawsuit for the death of a loved one,
please feel free to e-mail Texas Chantix Lawyer Jason Coomer
with your name & contact information.
Chantix Suicide Lawsuit Lawyers
Texas Dangerous Drug Attorney Jason
Coomer commonly works with other lawyers throughout Texas
and the United States including Texas Chantix Lawyers,
Houston Chantix Lawyers, Boston Chantix Lawyers, San Antonio
Pharmaceutical Lawyers, Dallas Defective Medication Lawyers,
and other Austin Dangerous Drug Claim Lawyers. By sharing
information and working together, his law firm and other
firms throughout Texas and the United States are able to
provide better representation for there clients.
Texas Chantix Lawyer Jason Coomer also
works on Reglan
Tardive Dyskinesia Lawsuits and other
defective drug mediation
lawsuits. If you or a loved one have or
are taking Chantix and have had mood swings, suicidal
thoughts, or attempted suicide consult your doctor. If you
or a loved one has questions about a potential Chantix
Lawsuit, feel free to e-mail any questions you might have to
ChantixSuicideLawyer@texaslawyers.com. |
