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Jump to full article: WFAA Channel 8 (Dallas/Fort Worth, TX), 2009-09-01
Author: JANET ST. JAMES / WFAA-TV
Intro: A federal lawsuit has been filed in Dallas on behalf of local musician Carter Albrecht against Pfizer, the maker of the stop-smoking drug Chantix.
Albrecht was shot and killed September 3, 2007 while banging on his neighbor's door. Albrecht had been drinking.
Albrecht's girlfriend, Ryann Rathbone, said he had become increasingly erratic after he started taking Chantix to quit smoking. She said vivid, often frightening dreams were an immediate side effect.
After using the prescription medication for a week, Rathbone said Albrecht began hallucinating, lashing out at her physically and verbally.
A News 8 investigation revealed thousands of similar reports of potentially dangerous psychiatric side effects. Pfizer later added a black box label, warning of serious neuropsychiatric side effects.
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