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title: "Psych News Alert: Varenicline Side Effects Continue to Be Serious Concern"
description: The smoking-cessation medication varenicline (Chantix) is linked with a significantly greater risk of suicidal behavior than other smoking-c...
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# [Psych News Alert: Varenicline Side Effects Continue to Be Serious Concern](https://alert.psychnews.org/2011/11/varenicline-side-effects-continue-to-be.html)

 Written by [Psychiatric News Alert](https://alert.psychnews.org/author/psychiatric-news-alert) | 11/7/11 5:00 AM

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The smoking-cessation medication varenicline (Chantix) is linked with a significantly greater risk of suicidal behavior than other smoking-cessation products, Curt Furberg, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest University, and colleagues reported online November 2 in the journal *PloS One*. Furberg and his colleagues have also published research coupling varenicline use with violence toward others. For more information about this research, see *Psychiatric News *at [http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsarticle.aspx?articleid=114040](http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsarticle.aspx?articleid=114040).

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