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Drug Injury: Chantix® Symptoms & Warnings
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What are some of the adverse symptoms of Chantix?
The FDA cautions Chantix users of the following:
"People who are taking Chantix or Zyban and experience any serious and unusual changes in mood or behavior or who feel like hurting themselves or someone else should stop taking the medicine and call their healthcare professional right away. Friends or family members who notice these changes in behavior in someone who is taking Chantix or Zyban for smoking cessation should tell the person their concerns and recommend that he or she stop taking the drug and call a healthcare professional right away."
According to Reuters, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has prohibited its pilots from using Chantix because of its possible dangers, which also include blurred vision, dizziness, confusion, loss of consciousness, and a previously established link to suicidal behavior.
Has the FDA issued Chantix warnings?
The FDA issued the following Chantix warning:
"The FDA is issuing this alert to highlight important revisions to the WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS sections of the full prescribing information for Chantix regarding serious neuropsychiatric symptoms. Serious neuropsychiatric symptoms have occurred in patients taking Chantix.
These symptoms include changes in behavior, agitation, depressed mood, suicidal ideation, and attempted and completed suicide.
While some patients may have experienced these types of symptoms and events as a result of nicotine withdrawal, some patients taking Chantix who experienced serious neuropsychiatric symptoms and events had not yet discontinued smoking.
In most cases, neuropsychiatric symptoms developed during Chantix treatment, but in others, symptoms developed following withdrawal of Chantix therapy."
What else should I know about Chantix?
After the FDA warned users of the link between Chantix use and serious psychiatric side effects, they issued a second warning that said, "The FDA's analysis of adverse event reports shows that when neuropsychiatric symptoms occur, they usually develop during drug treatment, but symptoms can also develop after the drug is stopped.
Some patients on these drugs who had no history of psychiatric illness experienced suicidal ideation and behavior for the first time. The drugs have also been associated with a worsening of symptoms in patients with pre-existing psychiatric disorders."
Chantix® is a registered trademark of Pfizer, Inc., and is used here only to identify the product in question.
This law firm is not associated with, sponsored by, or affiliated with the Food and Drug Administration or Pfizer, Inc.
