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Tom Rusk, M.D.

is Chief of Adult Psychiatry at Community Health & Counseling Services in Winterport, Maine. He shares his approach to minimizing the risk of SSRI-induced agitation.

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January 1, 2005

Tom Rusk, M.D.

Tom Rusk, M.D. is Chief of Adult Psychiatry at Community Health & Counseling Services in Winterport, Maine. He shares his approach to minimizing the risk of SSRI-induced agitation. Dr. Rusk has disclosed that he is a member of the speakers bureau of Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Astra Zeneca, and Eli Lilly.

Eight or nine years ago I had a couple of young adults become highly agitated and violent in the week after I started an SSRI (paroxetine in both cases). One beat up his girlfriend badly despite the lack of any history of violence previously.

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