Anonymous asked this question on 4/29/2000:

I DONT THINK EVERY TIME A PERSON HAVE A PROBLEM THEY SHOULD STICK DRUGS IN THERE FACE WHAT DO YOU THINK LIKE PROZAC NAH I DONT THINK THEY SHOULD GIVE THAT DRUG TO PEOPLE PEOPLE ARE WAY MORE OUT IF CONTROL NOW THEN THEY EVER WAS

desertphile gave this response on 4/30/2000:

Hi. Please note that I am not a doctor.

I did not see any question in your question, but I can address your concern about Prozac.

Depression is an illness, just like the flu or inflamation of the eye (conjunctivitis). Prozac treats that illness (depression), and it does it very very well. Would you have hundreds of thousands of people left untreated just because you do not approve of people taking medication they NEED to survive?

This year (2000) an estimated 32,000 people in the United States will kill themselves--- based on the figure of 31,000 last year who did. The very large majority of those people were not being treated for depression, which I for one think is a damn shame and a American disgrace. It is a public health concern just as much as a flu epidemic and heart disease!

Prozac would have saved thousands, and perhaps even the majority, of those people who will kill themselves this year. It is inexcusable for you or the Church of Scientology's evil and false propaganda to slander and libel Prozac and all other medications that people NEED to survive. INEXCUSABLE.

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