By Ann Tracy on February 11, 2010
NOTE FROM DR. TRACY (www.drugawareness.org):
Just what is it with connection between antidepressant use and
baseball bats?!! Must be the same as it is for antidepressants and AK47′s!
Doctors could have a side business selling both baseball bats and AK47′s with
the prescriptions they write for these drugs because as the users begin to
suffer the adverse reactions they buy one or the other or both! Has anyone
caught on yet? How many more cases will it take?
On another note WHY on earth are they charging this fellow in
one crime with 29 counts of criminal damage to property???? A charge for each of
the TV sets separately when it was one crime?! That is
ridiculous!!!
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Last sentence reads: “Police found a bottle of
Effexor XR, an anti-depressant, in Strellis’s
possession.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/11/westley-strellis-walmart_n_458652.html
Westley Strellis, Business
News
A Georgia man went on a rampage yesterday
at a Walmart outside of Atlanta, smashing dozens of flat-screen televisions with
a baseball bat he found in the store.
The man, 23-year-old Westley
Strellis, bashed in 29 flat-screen televisions worth $22,000, reports the
Atlanta Journal Constitution. He was charged
with a whopping 29 counts of criminal damage to property.
Strellis
invoked his Fifth Amendment right to stay mum, so his motive remains a mystery.
According to
the police
report, when officers arrived on the scene, Strellis was
sitting in an aisle in the store’s electronics department. When approached, he
held out his wrists, signaling for the officer to handcuff him. Police found a
bottle of Effexor XR, an anti-depressant, in Strellis’s
possession.
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a Ph.D. in Health Sciences with the emphasis on Psychology, is the director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness. She has specialized for 14 years in adverse reactions to serotonergic medications (such as Prozac, Sarafem, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Celexa, Lexapro, Effexor, Serzone, Anafranil, Fen-Phen, Redux and Meridia) and has testified before the FDA and congressional subcommittee members on Prozac. She has testified since 1992 as an expert witness in Prozac and other SSRI related court cases around the world. Her first book on the issue was published in 1991. During the last twelve and a half years she has participated in innumerable radio, television, newspaper and magazine interviews. We know of no one with such extensive experience and expertise on all of these issues surrounding the SSRI antidepressants as Dr. Ann Blake Tracy. You can learn a lot about these medications from her latest book on the Prozac family of antidepressants: PROZAC: PANACEA OR PANDORA? (2001). The book is the product of many, many years of intensive research, and the cases of approximately 1,000 patients on a long-term basis.
Dr. Tracy also has an hour and a half long audio tape/CD, “Help! I Can’t Get Off My Antidepressant!,” which explains the safest withdrawal methods from these antidepressants and how to rebuild the body and brain after the use of these drugs. She has spent the last thirteen years working with patients coming off of these antidepressants. That experience has helped her to know much about the serious and very dangerous withdrawal effects and how to avoid those in coming down off the drugs.
Please can you assist me. Do you have any contacts in Australia.
I have been on Efexor-XR 75mg for 5 years. Last year (2010) I did something completely out of character and I stole from my employer. I was convicted and sentenced to 18mths and served 3months in jail. My husband researched side-effects of this drug, and we are both 100% sure that what happened to me is as a negative side-effect. My life has been ruined by this drug. Can you help?
Janelle
jnllangel@yahoo.com.au