Critical Documents

This section contains important exhibits from Fentress v Lilly and Forsyth v Lilly, and other critical documents relating to Zoloft and Paxil.  Further documents are available from the address shown on the home page.

• Fluoxetine Project Team Minutes 23^rd July 1979
• Fluoxetine Project Team Minutes 2^nd August 1978
• Early problems for Prozac in Germany 26^th June 1984
• Brickler Exhibit 1 – This document from 1986 contains complete data on suicide and suicide attempts from trials of Prozac at that time.
• BMJ – One of the reviews of the Beasley meta-analysis of suicidal acts and suicidality on Prozac that was finally published in the British Medical Journal
• Claude Bouchy – Memoranda from Claude Bouchy, CEO for Lilly in Germany to Lilly HQ on the coding of suicides 13^th November 1990 with a response from Leigh Thompson of Lilly and a further reply from Claude Bouchy 14^th November 1990
• Fluctin Insert – Package insert fluoxetine in Germany, including warnings about the need for sedation in the early phase of treatment.
• John Heiligenstein Response to request from Leigh Thompson for input on presenting the issue of suicide on Prozac in the media.
• Leigh Thompson – Memorandum on his interactions with FDA managing the Suicide issue – 18^th July1990,
• Further memorandum from Leigh Thompson on the campaign to save Prozac 12^th September 1990.
• Memorandum from David Graham of the FDA on Lilly’s handling of the suicide and other issues 11^th September 1990
• Report from an anonymised influential British expert on the emerging suicide crisis, from exhibit 28 in the deposition of Laura Fludzinski in Fentress v Lilly Safety Report
• A Quick Guide to the Suicide Data on Prozac from October 86 Suicide Attempts
• Leigh Thompson on the perils of blockbusters  7^th September 1990
• Leigh Thompson’s forthcoming TV Appearance in defence of Prozac
• Unpublished details from Dr S Montgomery’s trial of Prozac in recurrent brief depression Wernicke 21
• Coding of washout suicidal acts as placebo suicidal acts in controlled trials of Sertraline 31^st January 1991
• Coding of washout suicidal acts as placebo suicidal acts in controlled trials of Paroxetine 19^th June 1991
• Deposition of Martin Teicher in Greer v Lilly 1996
• Deposition of Charles Beasley in Espinosa v Lilly 1999

The following are a selection of the most crucial expert witness exhibits from the trial of Fentress v Eli Lilly:

• Dorothy Dobbs
• Ray Fuller
• John Heiligenstein
• Melissa Humbert
• Hans Schulze-Solce
• I Slater
• Leigh Thompson
• Joachim Wernicke