FDA Ponders Weight Loss Drug that Increases Suicidal Thinking

Instead of pondering your next meal, now a person will be able to lose weight while pondering if they would like to live. Is the benefit worth the risk? Sanofi-Aventis's drug Acomplia is one more example of how artificially influencing appetite signals, and thus leptin, is like playing with dynamite. Leptin is powerful, it controls survival. When drugs interact directly with subconscious brain circuitry associated with acquiring food, the result is highly unpredictable.

It is nice that the FDA is warning in advance that the drug has serious psychiatric side-effects. The FDA even disclosed several people committed suicide during the drug's trials. Other problems include mood swings, anxiety and depression. Hopefully, the FDA will not allow this drug on the US market.

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