Pilots on Prozac? FAA lifts med ban

After extensive study of the medication issue the FAA ended ban on depressed pilots in cockpits.

Pilots taking Prozac will be permitted to fly as U.S. regulators drop a decades-old ban on four antidepressants including the Eli Lilly and Co. drug.

Risks from side effects, such as drowsiness, associated with the medications used to treat depression don’t pose a safety threat, the Federal Aviation Administration said today.

Is it really because the FAA has a better understanding of the drugs or is it because the decades-old drug ban is causing a shortage of pilots?

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