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ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Two English School Boys Threaten to Blow Up High School

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago06 mins

Last week a jury at Manchester Crown Court found two teenage English boys innocent of charges of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions.
The jury took just 45 minutes to dismiss the evidence offered by the prosecution – quite an impressive body of material by any standards, and some of it disturbingly familiar in tone to people in this country – and to accept the defence counsel’s plea that this was mere “fantasising” and the “hare-brained” schemes of two essentially well-adjusted teenagers.

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ANTIDEPRESSANT: Death: Overdose Victim Dies Right After Talking Coherently: IL

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago02 mins

It may seem strange that Christopher Kelly would be talking
coherently, then die several hours later, but Oak Forest Hospital physician
Srinivas Jolepalem said it’s rather common in overdose cases.

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ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Woman Commits Suicide: Husband Charged for Assisting: Florida

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago02 mins

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – A Brevard County man has been

charged with assisted suicide after police say he helped his wife kill herself.
Investigators say this is one of the more bizarre cases they’ve ever
seen.

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ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Compulsions for Alcohol, Violence: Man Stabs Friend: England

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago04 mins

A WOMAN was told she would be disfigured and
killed by a knife-wielding friend who got drunk at a family party.

Marcus
Musson held a blade to Karen Savage and strangled her until she lost
consciousness.

When he fell asleep, she escaped to the safety of her
mum’s home and called police.

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Prozac/SSRIs: Woman’s Symptoms Worsen Beyond Original Symptoms From Withdrawal

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago03 mins

Vincent’s first trip to a mental institution to which the
writing of Self-Made Man drove her convinced her that further
immersion would give her great material for a follow-up. The grand tour consists
of voluntary commitments to a hospital mental ward, a small private facility and
a boutique facility; but Vincent’s efforts to make a big statement about the
state of mental health treatment quickly give way to a more personal journey.

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ANTIDEPRESSANT: Suicide: Soldier: Iraq/Kentucky

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago010 mins

As soon as Arylane Ala walked into her house that day
in 2007, she saw blood a red pool stretching from the coffee table to the
fireplace. Then she saw her youngest son face down on the floor, an antique
rifle by his side.

She didn’t approach his body, she said: “I didn’t
want to see his face … his expression.”

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ANTIDEPRESSANT: Suicide: Soldier: Iraq/Virginia

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago05 mins

Jon Greene
knows he might choke up when he reads aloud a certain name Saturday at
Mount Trashmore.

He lost Scott Alan Starr, a friend and colleague, to
suicide in August 2008. Greene was the commander of the Naval Surface Warfare
Center at Dam Neck; Starr worked closely with him.

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PAXIL: Birth Defect Case: Test Case for Over 600 Lawsuit: USA- Pennsylvania

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago03 mins

GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C., the world’s second-biggest
drugmaker, begins a trial in Philadelphia next week in what may be a test case
for more than 600 lawsuits over claims that the company’s antidepressant drug

Paxil causes birth defects.

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ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Woman Attacks Another Woman & Gets One Year Jail Term: England

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago03 mins

A MOTHER-OF-THREE has been jailed for a
year after attacking a woman she accused of being a prostitute.

Kerrie
Thomas, 31, of Stotfield Road, Bilborough, repeatedly punched the woman in the
face and kicked her.

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ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Police Officer Suicide After Only Days on Samples: NJ

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago04 mins

A civil trial
is set to start Monday on a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the widow of a
Harding police officer who hanged himself in 2003, a day after he was screened
at Morristown Memorial Hospital for suicidal ideations but not
admitted.