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		<title>DEPRESSION MED:  Woman Stabs To Death A Man On A Stairwell:  Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Defence solicitor Bernie Balmer said Epshtein was on medication for anxiety, bipolar, depression, pain and one to lower her heart rate.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/depression-med-woman-stabs-to-death-a-man-on-a-stairwell-australia</link>
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		<title>DEPRESSION MED:  Woman Assaults a Deputy Sheriff: Colorado</title>
		<description><![CDATA["When deputies arrived, they noted Moschetti, who was standing outside and cursing at a man inside, was slurring her speech and had a distant gaze in her eyes. She said she was taking medication for depression."

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		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/depression-med-woman-assaults-a-deputy-sheriff-colorado</link>
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		<title>Antidepressant use doubles in U.S., study finds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 — 13 million people. This rose to more than 10 percent or 27 million people by 2005, the researchers found.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressant-use-doubles-in-u-s-study-finds-2</link>
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		<title>ICFDA Warning on Drug Discontinuation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A REMINDER: IT IS EASIER TO GET DOWN OFF A MOUNTAINTOP ONE GUARDED STEP AT A TIME THAN TO JUMP FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM.

No matter how few or how many side effects you have had on these antidepressants, withdrawal is a whole new world. The worst part of rapid withdrawal does not hit for several months AFTER you quit. So even if you think you are doing okay you quickly find that it becomes much worse.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/articles/icfda-warning</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANTS: FT CARSON  Soldier (Freeman) Attempted Murder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freeman said the hospital staff prescribed him antidepressants and told him they were so busy that he wouldn’t receive counseling for a month.

A few weeks later, on Feb. 22, 2006, Freeman got in a fight with a man he had never met, Kenneth Tatum, in the China Express restaurant on B Street. Freeman pulled out his .357 and, before he knew it, he said, Tatum was bleeding on the ground. He had shot him through the thigh]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressants-ft-carson-soldier-freeman-attempted-murder</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANTS, ETC: FT CARSON Soldier (Eastridge) Multiple Murders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At first, Eastridge said, he enjoyed the intensity of it. He had a competition going with Bressler to see who could kill more bad guys. His final count, he said — and his sergeant confirmed — was about 80.

But after a few months, the raids, gore and constant threat of roadside bombs started to get to him. He couldn’t sleep. He was on edge all the time. Doctors at the base diagnosed him with PTSD, depression, anxiety and a sleep disorder. They gave him antidepressants and sleeping pills and put him back on duty.

When he went back to the doctors a few weeks later saying the pills were not working, his medical records show, they doubled his dose.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressants-etc-ft-carson-soldier-eastridge-multiple-murders</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANTS, ETC.: FT CARSON  Soldier (Marquez) Murder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He said he started trading his morphine with other soldiers for an antipsychotic called quetiapine and an anti-anxiety drug called clonazepam. Improper use of either can cause psychotic reactions, anxiety, panic attacks, aggressiveness and suicidal behavior, but, Marquez said, injured soldiers traded them like children in a lunchroom swapping desserts.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressants-etc-ft-carson-soldier-marquez-murder</link>
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		<title>ZOLOFT: FT CARSON &#8211; Soldier (Needham) Sucide Attempt, Murder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In March 2007, Needham went to the battalion’s doctor, saying he was “losing it” and needed a break, according to a summary of his service that he wrote. He was prescribed the antidepressant Zoloft and sent back to work. In May, Needham said, he went back to the doctor and was again sent back to work. In June, according to medical records, he went again. And in September. Commanders always sent him back out on patrol, he said]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/zoloft-ft-carson-soldier-needham-sucide-attempt-murder</link>
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		<title>What Killed Anna Nicole Smith&#8217;s Son Daniel?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Then when serotonin levels become too high the end result is Serotonin Syndrome - a condition which can cause death by multiple organ failure. This was the cause of the death of Anna Nicole Smith's 20 year old son, Daniel.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/overview/832</link>
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		<title>DEPRESSION MED:  Suicide Attempt:  Story on The Gap:  Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paragraph 11 reads: "Years later, Mr Ritchie encouraged a ‘‘nervous and confused’’ woman, sitting on a ledge, shoes by her side, to follow him home. Over tea and toast, she revealed she was unhappy with medication she had been prescribed for depression. Mr Ritchie’s wife suggested she seek a second opinion. ‘‘A couple of months later she came up the path with a bottle of French champagne. We later got a Christmas card from her, and a postcard. It said 'I’ll never forget your important intervention in my life. I am well’.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/depression-med-suicide-attempt-story-on-the-gap-australia</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANT &amp; ALCOHOL: In Pink Pajamas Woman Slashes Neighbor&#8217;s Tires: UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Stephen Constantine, defending, said: 'Ms Fergus suffers from depression and this offending was a result of combining drink with her prescribed medication'."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressant-alcohol-in-pink-pajamas-woman-slashes-neighbors-tires-uk</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPESSANTS:  Death:  21 Year Old:  Florida</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ "In the wake of his death, his family searches for answers. Kathy Mott said she does not believe her son relapsed. She wonders if the antidepressants played a role in his death."

"Now she wants others to be careful."

"'Just because it's prescription drugs, doesn't mean you can't OD,' she said."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepessants-death-21-year-old-florida</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANT:  Man Threatens to Shoot Self:  In Stand-Off with Police: &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Raritan Township police were called to a single-family home in the township about 3:30 p.m. after a woman reported her husband had locked himself in the bedroom and was threatening to shoot himself. The woman told police her husband had several guns in the house and that at least two -- a pistol and a rifle -- were in the bedroom with him.

She said he is taking medication to combat depression and that he had been drinking. The unnamed man allegedly told his wife he would resist if police responded, according to a news release.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressant-man-threatens-to-shoot-self-in-stand-off-with-police</link>
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		<title>DEPRESSION MED: Suicide: 14 year old girl: Ohio</title>
		<description><![CDATA["There is a huge amount of secrecy and denial. We have done a really good job of scaring people out of talking about their own mental health," he said.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/depression-med-suicide-14-year-old-girl-ohio</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANTS:  Mother Kills Daughter&#8217;s Rapist:  Spain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A MUM who killed her daughter’s rapist by throwing petrol over him and setting him alight has been jailed for nine years. Maria del Carmen Garcia Espinosa’s daughter Veronica was raped by a man from their home town, Benejuzar, in 1998 when she was just 13. Veronica’s mother has been in counselling and on anti-depressants ever since.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressants-mother-kills-daughters-rapist-spain</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANTS:  Police Officer Dead:  Shooter Dies Also:  shooter was o&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coroner: "Shooter was prescribed antidepressants."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressants-police-officer-dead-shooter-dies-also-shooter-was-o</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANTS: 52% of Women Who Committed Suicide in 2006 Were taking a&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA["We first looked at antidepressant prescriptions. Of the 776 Scandinavian men in the sample, 259 (32%) (age-adjusted 95% confidence interval [CI]=28.5–35.2) filled a prescription for antidepressants in the 180 days before death. The corresponding figures were 176 of the 333 Scandinavian women in the sample (52%) (CI=46.7–57.5), 32 of the 102 foreign-born men (31%) (CI=21.6–39.5), and 21 of the 44 foreign-born women (43%) (CI=28.7–58.1)."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressants-52-of-women-who-committed-suicide-in-2006-were-taking-a</link>
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		<title>Report: Overdose of prescription drugs may have killed Michael Jackson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The star had been taking prescription painkillers including
anti-anxiety drugs Xanax, Zoloft and painkiller Demerol in recent
months, sources close to Jackson told Life &#038; Style. The insider
close to the star said he took a suspected overdose of drugs on
Thursday morning, which caused respiratory and cardiac arrest.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/articles/overdose-of-prescription-drugs-killed-michael-jackson</link>
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		<title>Michael Moore &#8211; Reveals the real cause of Columbine.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Moore obtained a copy of Dr. Tracy&#8217;s book, &#8220;Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? &#8211; Our Serotonin Nightmare&#8221; at the premier of &#8220;Bowling for Columbine&#8221; in Denver, CO. After learning more about these drugs, see his statement from the movie he recently appeared in with Dr. Tracy, Mark Taylor, Neal Bush, and others in the Gary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/articles/michael-moore-cause-of-columbine</link>
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		<title>Columbine Anniversary Brings Columbine &amp; Red Lake Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joint statement from the family of a Columbine victim &#038; the family of
the Red Lake, MN school shooter - total dead 25, total wounded 31
 
Testimony of Columbine shooting victim Mark Allen Taylor, before the
FDA
 
Statement by Michael Moore about the cause of Columbine after making
the movie, "Bowling for Columbine" ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/articles/columbine-anniversary-brings-columbine-red-lake-together</link>
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