possible suicidal thoughts
"Homicidal thoughts" as a listed side effect! What more do you need?
The FDA in the US and EMEA in Europe and other organisations around the world require, based on GCP and the EU Directive on Clinical Trials, that any "adverse event" that a patient experiences must be recorded in detail.
They are usually hundreds or thousands of subjects enrolled in a trial that measures safety and efficacy. There can be tens of thousands of patients in studies over the course of a drug's clinical evaluation.
An adverse event that results hospitalisation or death (amongst other criteria) is reported as a "Serious Adverse Event" and is treated very seriously by drug companies and investigated as fully as the recruiting physicians are able.
Unless they can categorically say that that Serious Adverse Event was due to something other than the drug under investigation it goes down as related or possibly related to the drug in question, by default.
So if one patient in a trial out of 2000 kills themselves it will be pretty hard to categorically discount the drug from involvement (the prime information source being dead, and all that...) and bingo, you have "possible suicidal thoughts" as a possible side effect.
Not a difficult scenario to imagine is one of the indications for your panic attack meds is also major depressive disorder...and a medication for, say, stomach upset or some other seemingly unconnected condition can also have licenced use in CNS disorders. The safety/side effect profile does not change between different indications.
Not to mention any post licence reporting.
This is not to say there is no connection, but is to say that there could well not be so, again, it takes more than what is on a patient info leaflet to turn the anti-gun tide...
This is noteworthy, but not some wonder cure to the current gun debate.
Seems the drug companies are even pushing their junk to vets.
Junk... of course... because modern meds never cured or relieved anything...
Are Pharma companies now the new #1 public enemy?
Just checking to keep up with the current trends.