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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:43.0pt'><font size=6 color=blue
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black";
color:blue'>VICTORIA UNIVERSITY<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:43.0pt'><font size=6 color="#993366"
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black";
color:#993366'>FA</span></font><font size=6 color="#d00063" face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black";color:#D00063'>CULTY OF <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:43.0pt'><font size=6 face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>ARTS,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:43.0pt'><font size=6 color="#d00063"
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black";
color:#D00063'>EDUCATION &<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:43.0pt'><font size=6 face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>HUMAN DEVELOPMENT<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:43.0pt'><font size=5 color="#d00063"
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black";
color:#D00063'>Invites you to a Colloquium<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black";
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=4
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>Paxil:
A story about politicians, pharmacological corporations, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=4
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>academics
and other corrupt bastards</span></font><b><font face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-family:"Arial Black";font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black";
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black";
font-weight:bold'>Presented by Paul Duckett<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial Black"'>Manchester Metropolitan<b><span style='font-weight:
bold'> University</span></b></span></font></st1:City><b><font
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-family:"Arial Black";font-weight:bold'>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></span></font></b></st1:place><b><font
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-family:"Arial Black";font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:22.0pt'><b><font size=3
face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";
font-weight:bold'>When:
Friday 31st
July Time:
12.00 – 1.00pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";
font-weight:bold'>Where:
L203, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Victoria</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Footscray</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Campus (<st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Ballarat Rd</st1:address></st1:Street>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:22.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>The Presenter<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dr Paul Duckett is a community psychologist who works in the
fields of disability, mental health and unemployment. Paul is presently working
at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Manchester</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Metropolitan</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
in the Department of Psychology and Social Change, where he teaches community
psychology and critical psychology.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Paul will describe the work of the
Seroxat and SSRI User Group in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>. This group is fighting a
multinational pharmaceutical corporation – GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) - the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
government, regulatory agencies and the medical and allied professions to
secure social justice and social support for people harmed by the
psycho-pharmaceutical industry. GSK manufactures and markets the drug
Paroxetine - a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) used in the
treatment of, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>inter alia</span></i>,<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>‘depression’ and
‘anxiety disorders’. The drug is marketed under the brand names
‘Seroxat’ in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>
and ‘Paxil’ in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>
and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
In 2003, GSK were found to have withheld clinical trial data on Paroxetine that
showed the drug was clinically ineffective and increased the risk of suicide in
children and adolescents. GSK had, for at least five years, withheld the trial
data for commercial reasons – to reduce any negative impact upon sales.
In the UK GSK has survived criminal prosecution attempts, protected by the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> government’s impotence, the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
regulatory body’s incompetence and the academic community’s
improbity. There is now evidence to suggest that Paroxetine is clinically
ineffective and potentially toxic for adults as well as children. In spite of
this, it remains one of the world’s best selling prescription drugs, and
children are still being prescribed the drug (e.g., in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place> during 2008, 4000
children under 10years of age were prescribed Paxil and other SSRI
medications). Paul will describe how the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place> political system, the medical
profession, and the university sector have colluded with the pharmaceutical
industry to promote GSK shareholder profits at the expense of public health and
explain why Paxil is prescribed by our physicians rather than proscribed by our
politicians.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";font-weight:bold'>PLEASE NOTE THAT A LIGHT
LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>RSVP: 9919 4673 or email <a
href="mailto:Maureen_E_Ryan@vu.edu.au">Maureen_E_Ryan@vu.edu.au</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><strong><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Heather Gridley</span></font></b></strong></st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></p>
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Sciences</st1:PlaceName></span></font></st1:place><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> and Psychology</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Footscray</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Campus
(Monday & Friday)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Victoria</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceName></span></font></st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street
w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>PO Box</span></font></st1:Street><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> 14428</span></font></st1:address><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Melbourne</span></font></st1:City></st1:place><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> VIC 8001 </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Australia</span></font></st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>TEL +61 3 9919 5224</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>FAX +61 3 9919 4324</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>MOBILE</span></font></st1:City></st1:place><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>: 0419 113 731</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Email: heather.gridley@vu.edu.au</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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