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Review of Varenicline (CHANTIX) for Smoking Cessation
November 2018
If you are a smoker, quitting is the most important thing you can do for your health. Learn why we recommend that varenicline only be used a last-resort drug for smoking cessation.
Public Citizen Joins Other Groups in Requesting Additional Warnings on CHANTIX Label
March 2015
In October 2014, Public Citizen joined four other consumer advocacy and research groups to petition the FDA to require stronger warnings on the label of the smoking cessation drug varenicline (CHANTIX). Learn about the drug’s severe psychiatric and neurological side effects that could potentially lead to fatal consequences.
New Heart-Risk Safety Warning for Varenicline (CHANTIX): Do Not Use Until 2013
September 2011
Find out why the FDA is now requiring patient warnings on this drug about an increased risk of cardiovascular adverse events in patients with existing cardiovascular disease. This adds to the growing list, including many psychiatric adverse effects, of problems associated with varenicline.
A Review of Varenicline (CHANTIX) To Quit Smoking
September 2007
Varenicline was approved by the FDA in May 2006 for use as an aid in smoking cessation treatment. It belongs to a new family of drugs, not containing nicotine, but thought to work by stimulating nicotine receptors in the brain, just as nicotine does.

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The 100th Anniversary of the FDA: The Sleeping Watchdog Whose Master is Increasingly the Regulated Industries (HRG Publication #1776)
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of this important agency, there are too many instances in which it appears to be moving back into 19th century when industry did what it wanted rather than into the 21st century.

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