The FDA, earlier this year, issued a public safety advisory about Chantix, a pill that acts on the nicotine receptors in the brain, causing psychiatric symptoms including suicidal thoughts and suicidal tendencies. Since Chantix's approval in May 2006 until the end of December 2007, the FDA had received 227 domestic reports of suicidal acts, thoughts or behaviors, 397 cases of possible psychosis and 525 reports of hostility or aggression with many of the patients reporting hallucinations and thoughts of killing people. This also included 28 suicides. The FAA has band the use of Chantix for all pilots and air traffic controllers.
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