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NOTE FROM Ann Blake-Tracy (_www.drugawareness.org_ (https://www.drugawareness.org) ): This reminds me of a case I had in Florida years ago where a young man was staying with friends and had been a little “down” lately. He remembered that the wife in the family had a bottle of Zoloft she had placed on top of the fridge…
AN A&E consultant has warned
of the “lethal” consequences of combining alcohol and prescription medication
following the death of Bertie Ahern’s nephew from a mixture of drink and
anti-depressants.
Dr Chris Luke said people were admitted every day
suffering from the effects of legal drug and alcohol cocktails. Dr Luke, a
consultant at Cork University Hospital, said legal drugs were as dangerous as
illegal drugs and the public needed to be made aware of the dangers.
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.
SANTA CRUZ – After four days on the witness stand, accused murderer Marshall Doud stepped down Tuesday afternoon and his attorney rested his case.
Doud was the only defense witness to testify during the jury trial, which began Aug. 4 and could send the 43-year-old to state prison for the rest of his life. He is accused of allegedly smothering his wife, Morgana, 42, early on Sept. 4, 2007.
Chandler police said Carol Roby, 62, suffered a nervous breakdown after going off her Zoloft, an anti-depressant medication. Her family noticed her missing Saturday when she didn’t meet them for a 2 p.m. meeting. She also didn’t make an 8 a.m. work appointment, police said.
First three paragraphs read: “A MAN charged with making explosives in Melbourne’s west has been taking anti- depressants, a court has heard.” Russell Heard, 46, of Wyndham Vale, faced the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court today charged with explosives offences. Police allegedly discovered the explosive materials during a raid while carrying out a search warrant about 6pm…
MATTAWA, Wash. (AP) – Apple orchards are blossoming just down the road. But
there is one student in Michelle Hansen’s honors English class who is not
there to see it.
Cory Baadsgaard is, instead, in the county jail, writing letters of apology
to classmates he has known since kindergarten – the same ones he forced into
a classroom corner using a loaded big-game hunting rifle and swear words many
had never heard him use before.
Recent article in the Smithville Review regarding Robert Kirkwood’s tragic experience with anti-depressants. Two area cases involved anti-depressants By DENNIS STANLEY, THE SMITHVILLE REVIEW (Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series.) http://smithvillereview.edge.net/index.ez?Form.sess_id=8934&Form.sess_key=938122849&viewStory=483 In October, 1993 Wilma J. Adcock of the Antioch Community shot her nine- and 15- year-old sons in the chest…