OpEdNews, an online news source, ran an article by investigative journalist Evelyn Pringle entitled, “SSRI [Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor antidepressant] Makers Use Media To Reel In Pregnant Women as Customers.” It heavily attacks the false notion that SSRI antidepressants (such as Prozac, Paxil, Celexa, Lexapro and Zoloft) are safe, particularly relating to pregnancy, and censures the media for its participation in misleading the public. Pringle extensively addresses the birth defects being found in babies born to women who took SSRI antidepressants while pregnant. Pringle wrote, “Big Pharma's regular use of the media as paid shills [one who acts as a decoy for a peddler], masquerading as caring doctors while feeding the public misinformation about the risks of prescription drugs, is disturbing, to say the least. However, when the goal is to increase profits through the sale of drugs to pregnant women that are known to be harmful to the fetus, the media's participation is downright despicable.
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