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PROZAC: Bizarre Behavior: Member of Parliament: England

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago010 mins

Mark
Oaten is sitting in his eyrie in Westminster, wearing a blue and white striped
shirt, sipping from a carton of Ribena and ruminating on the mental health of
MPs.

Three years ago this clean-cut Home Counties Liberal Democrat
pin-up was exposed by the News of the World for making regular visits to
rent boys. Overnight he saw his leadership ambitions destroyed and his marriage
almost disintegrate. Now he has written a book, Screwing Up, describing
the emotional pressures and psychological flaws that lead politicians to
self-destruct.

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ANTIDEPRESSANT: Woman is 23rd France Telecom Employee to Commit Suidie

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago03 mins

THE controversy over a spate of
suicides at the communications giant France
Telecom took a macabre turn overnight with the publication of a suicide
letter sent by the latest woman to die.

“I’m going to become the 23rd
staff member to commit suicide,” 32-year-old Stephanie wrote in an e-mail sent
to her father just moments before she flung herself out of her fourth storey
office window.

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SSRI Birth Defects: Glaxo must pay $2.5M in Paxil case

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago03 mins

GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. must pay $2.5 million to settle a
claim that its Paxil antidepressant caused severe heart defects in a
3-year-old Bensalem boy, a Philadelphia common pleas jury ruled
today.

The verdict is the first in 600 cases alleging that
London-based Glaxo knew Paxil caused birth defects and hid those risks to
boost profits.

The drug, approved for U.S. use in 1992, generated about $942
million in sales last year, 2.1 percent of Glaxo’s total
revenue.

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WELLBUTRIN & LORAZAPAM: Bear Stearns’ Tannin Faces Charges

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago07 mins

In words never intended for public consumption, Tannin wrote of his
worries about becoming dependant on an antidepressant, Wellbutrin, and a stress
medication, Lorazapan, to cope with concern about the performance of his
fund. He expressed satisfaction at earning close to $2m (£1.3m) in a
year but alluded to a “religious crisis” and complained about “schlepping the
kids around from place to place” during a holiday in London.

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DR. IRVING KIRSCH: EXPLODING THE ANTIDEPRESSANT MYTH

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago02 mins

proud to present Dr. Irving Kirsch who will deliver a lecture titled “The

Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth,” on Oct. 14.

When asked about the subject matter of his lecture, Dr. Kirsch, a Psychology
professor at the University of Hull, in England, said this. “Antidepressants
work – everyone knows they do. That’s what I thought too, until my colleagues
and I analyzed the clinical trial data. When I obtained the unpublished as well
as published data from the Food and Drug Administration, I found that what
everyone knew about antidepressants was wrong. Instead of treating depression
with drugs, we’ve been treating it with suggestion. A thorough review of the

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ANTIDEPRESSANT: Mother of Columbine killer tells of horror 10 yrs after massacre

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago06 mins

The
mother of one of the two teenagers who murdered a dozen fellow students and a
teacher in the massacre at Columbine high school has broken a decade of

silence to say that she is unable to look at another child without thinking
about the horror and suffering her son caused.

Susan
Klebold, whose son Dylan and another youth, Eric Harris, hunted down pupils at
the Colorado school with shotguns, a semi-automatic pistol and a rifle before
killing themselves, has described her trauma over her son’s actions.

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ANTIDEPRESSANTS: DID A DRUG LEAD TO KILLING? IRELAND

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago08 mins

Shane Clancy’s mother and stepfather alleged on ‘The Late Late Show’ that
antidepressants caused him to stab three people, and then himself. However, no
medical research has ever linked these drugs to homicide

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ANTIDEPRESSANT: 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: Florida

Ann Blake-Tracy16 years ago02 mins

Paragraph asix reads: “Deputies say Ragan and his wife were having marital problems and his wife was on anti-depressants. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.” http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/brevard_news/091409_assisted_suicide_charge Brevard man charged with assisted suicide Updated: Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009, 12:23 AM EDTPublished : Monday, 14 Sep 2009, 5:15 PM EDT BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35)…

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ANTIDEPRESSANTS: 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.

After Musson was arrested, he said he could
not remember what happened.