CBS News reports on Heparin, Chantix deaths

4 Responses to CBS News reports on Heparin, Chantix deaths

1. David Fry says:

   November 11, 2008 at 11:59 am

   See

   http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Cigarette_Smoking_and_Cancer.asp

   and

   http://www.naag.org/adoption-of-fire-safe-cigarettes-by-tobacco-industry-may-save-countless-

   lives.php

   440,000 people a year die from smoking related diseases. 1000 die from smoking related fire

   deaths. The cost of smoking throughout a lifetime is in the tens of thousands of dollars.

   The quality of life of a smoker is greatly diminished. The alternative treatments to CHANTIX probably should be tried first by most smokers but have a very low success rate. Smokers who want to quit should not have CHANTIX taken away as a means of quitting.
2. Armand Rossetti says:

   November 17, 2008 at 9:18 am

   Please access Injuryboard using this link:

   http://westpalmbeach.injuryboard.com/defective-and-dangerous-products/chantix-why-the-rush.aspx?googleid=251638

   You are welcome to read: “Chantix: Why the Rush?”
3. donna davenport says:

   January 10, 2009 at 11:28 pm

   On September 15, 2008, I found my only child, age 32, dead in her bed. Danielle was totally disabled by mental illnesses for about 12 years. Going along with mental illnesses, Dani drank and did drugs, finally she hit rock bottom. On March 11, 2008, my husband (Danielle’s stepfather) and I drove from Tecumseh, KS to Huntington, WV and picked her up to bring her home. She had agreed to our rules, which really were not many – having a saving account, learning to cook and shop for the best buys, house hold chores, etc. I had set up for her to receive mental health treatment in Topeka. KS with a facility named Valeo. They did wonders for her – counseling, case manager and medication’s. The State of Kansas (SRS) assigned a primary doctor to her, Dr. Norris. I took her to all of her appointments, due to her fear of driving. Three (3) times went to Dr. Norris’s office – NEVER saw the doctor. She saw two (2) different ARNP’s. The office had all of her medications listed in her chart – the med.’s included but were not limited to:
   Risperdal 1 mg twice a day
   Zolpidem 10 mg per day
   Doxepin 150 mg per day
   Clonazepam 1 mg – twice a day
   Depakote Er 500 mg tablets x 3 at bedtime
   Danielle was doing really well, doing chores, playing with our pets, taking vitamins, was clean and sober. Then she wanted to quit smoking – one of the ARPN’s wrote not one but two prescriptions for Chantix, one was a starter 0.5 and 1.0 mg and the other was all 1.0 mg. The first box(starter pak) has two (2) full cards with 14 tablets each of 1.0 mg still sealed. The second box has three (3) full cards with 14 tablets each of 1.0 mg still sealed.
   Danielle was never told about any possible side effects, nor was I. I have filed a complaint against the doctor with the Kansas Board of Healing Arts and the ARNP with the Nursing Board.
   On September 7, 2008, she had talked her only friend out of suicide. Including in her obituary are two (2) poems, RECOVERY was written on September 11, 2008. It was the Sunday after Dani’s death that I saw the commercial “The Tortoise and The Hare.” I called our local Coroner and raised my concerns. He called me back the next day after calling four (4) different labs of which none of them checked for Varenicline. I suppose I am writing to you to vent, share and get the word out that Pfizer is killing people and making a lot of money doing it.
   Here is the link to my daughter’s obituary, if you want to read her poem.

   http://legacy.com/cjonline/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=117558998

   Thank you for your time.

   Donna Davenport
   (childless mother)
4. ronnieshults4 says:

   March 19, 2012 at 2:05 pm

   If you think the effects of chantix are short lived think again. I took chantix over four years ago and still having problems including suicidal thoughts. Thanks, my name is ronnie