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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANT &amp; ALCOHOL: Chain Saw Attack:  Ireland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paragraph 10 reads: &#8220;Garda Noonan agreed with Mr Orange that Mulligan had been on antidepressants at the time and the medication did not mix well with the alcohol he had taken that night.&#8221; SSRI Stories Note: The Physicians Desk Reference states that antidepressants can cause a craving for alcohol and can cause alcohol abuse. Also, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressant-alcohol-chain-saw-attack-ireland</link>
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		<title>CELEXA: Murder-Suicide: Two Doctors Say Celexa Caused Tragedy:  Ireland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE WELLBEING FOUNDATION has demanded that Mental Health Minister John Moloney act immediately to put in place proper protections for patients, their families, relatives and friends following the ‘not suicide’ verdict in the Shane Clancy SSRI-inspired double death case. The Irish Medicines Board is still funded by the drug companies, still remains one body despite the recommendations of an Oireachtas committee, and still issues weak and ineffective patient information leaflets with inadequate warnings of the dangers of the SSRI antidepressants which drove Shane Clancy to kill a college friend and then stab himself to death. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/celexa-murder-suicide-two-doctors-say-celexa-caused-tragedy-ireland</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANT &amp; ALCOHOL: Assault:  Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A LONG-TIME RAAF officer has piloted his way into
trouble after grabbing another man's testicles at the Port Fairy Folk Festival.


Jeff Todd, 51, of Ramsey Court, Lowood, pleaded guilty in the
Warrnambool Magistrates Court this week to unlawful assault. 
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		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressant-alcohol-assault-australia</link>
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		<title>LEXAPRO:  Journalist Has Side-Effects:  Not Sure Lexapro is Working:  U.S&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salon

I take it every morning, right after I brush my teeth. A single white pill, with the letters F and L stamped on one side, the number 10 on the other. It's so small it nearly disappears into the folds of my palm. You could drop it in my orange juice or my breakfast cereal, and I'd swallow it without a hitch.

And, for the last three years, I have been swallowing my Lexapro -- and everything that comes along with it. And, apparently, I'm not alone.

Between 1996 and 2005, the number of Americans taking antidepressants doubled. According to the Centers for Disease Control, antidepressants are now the most commonly prescribed class of drugs in the U.S. -- ahead of drugs for cholesterol, blood pressure and asthma. Of the 2.4 billion drugs prescribed in 2005, 118 million were for depression. Whether the pills go by the name of Lexapro or Effexor or Prozac or Wellbutrin, we're downing them, to the tune of $9.6 billion a year, and we're doing it for a very good and simple reason. They're supposed to be making us better.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/lexapro-journalist-has-side-effects-not-sure-lexapro-is-working-u-s</link>
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		<title>SSRI ANTIDEPRESSANT:  2008 Finnish School Shooting: 10 Dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 23, 2008, at Kauhajoki in Finland, a 22 year old
culinary student named Matti Saari shot and killed ten students before
killing himself.  The official report on the shooting has been released
by the Finnish Ministry and on page 58 of that report [PDF file] it states that
Matti Saari was taking an SSRI medicinal product and
also a benzodiazepine.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/ssri-antidepressant-2008-finnish-school-shooting-10-dead</link>
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		<title>JAMA: Mild to severe depression better treated with alternatives to medications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Workers with depression stay home
sick more often than healthy colleagues, even when their disease is treated,
according to a Thomson Reuters report released on Tuesday.

The report,
commissioned by drug maker Sanofi Aventis, suggests that employers would
benefit from better treatments of their workers for depression. Depression is
the leading cause of disability among Americans aged 15 to 44, according to
the National Institute of Mental Health.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/jama-mild-to-severe-depression-better-treated-with-alternatives-to-medications</link>
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		<title>SARAFEM (PROZAC) &amp; ROBITUSSIN:  Brittany Murphy Dies Suddenly: CA</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Let's set the record straight
once and for all -- Brittany was not taking any medication for her mood, for
anorexia," Murphy's husband Simon Monjack said. "It's utterly ridiculous
that these rumors have perpetuated."

Investigators found prescription
medication for depression, seizures, anxiety and pain. Monjack told Lauer his
late wife used Vicoprofen and Sarafem during her menstrual cycle. "Most of the
medications are mine. I suffer from seizures," Monjack declared. The
screenwriter began to stutter and added, "I suffer from, you know, heart... my
heart stopped on December 3rd when we landed from Puerto Rico."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/sarafem-prozac-robitussin-brittany-murphy-dies-suddenly-ca</link>
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		<title>LEXAPRO: Caused Mania: Man Died After Being Pepper Sprayed 10 TIMES!: FL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The widow of an Ohio man who died in police custody in Fort
Myers, Florida last March, will file a federal lawsuit for violating her
husband’s constitutional rights by failing to recognize that he was mentally
ill.

Joyce Christie, of Girard, Ohio, and her son, plan to file the
action against the Lee County Sheriff’s Office and Prison Health Services (PHS),
the private company that oversees medical care for the jail, which had taken
custody of Nicholas Christie for trespassing.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/lexapro-caused-mania-man-died-after-being-pepper-sprayed-10-times-fl</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANTS:  Policeman Becomes Violent:  Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA - A police
disciplinary hearing heard dramatic testimony yesterday about Const. Jeff
Gulick's violent conduct in May 2008.

Gulick pleaded guilty yesterday to
discreditable conduct under the Police Services Act.

He had previously
been found guilty of assaulting a police officer, uttering threats to cause
bodily harm, escaping lawful custody and mischief after officers tried to arrest
him at his home May 22, 2008. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressants-policeman-becomes-violent-canada</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANT WITHDRAWAL:  Mother&#8217;s Baby Missing:  Arizona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Bob Johnson said his
granddaughter, Elizabeth, has always been secretive. 

"If she didn't want
you to know something, you ain't gonna find out," Johnson said. 

He said
moving in and out of five foster homes as a child made her that way. But he said
the straight "A" student also developed an irrational temper that led to bouts
of rage. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressant-withdrawal-mothers-baby-missing-arizona</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANT WITHDRAWAL: Road Rage Driver Attacks School Bus Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Youngsters were terrified when a road-rage driver smashed a school
bus window with a crook lock.

Glass shattered over the driver, while

children were on their way home from school.

Robert John Alan Campbell
(30) had earlier attacked two other vehicles, frightening the occupants,
including an elderly couple.

Campbell, a married dad of three, was jailed
for 16 months after admitting three counts of causing damage and one of having
an offensive weapon – the crook lock.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressant-withdrawal-road-rage-driver-attacks-school-bus-children</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANTS:  Antidepressant-Induced Violence in America</title>
		<description><![CDATA["I wondered if....

"I think it would be interesting to know if
he had been taking an SSRI (antidepressant). It seems, based on news reports,
that he was very depressed. He may have taken an SSRI and that may have played a
part. Hopefully that will be investigated to determine,” said Poyner, a Ph.D.
with a practice in Choctaw.

Poyner was out of state and was shocked to
hear of the local allegations against Dr.
Stephen Paul Wolf, jailed on murder and assault complaints in connection
with the recent stabbing death of his 9-year-old son, Tommy. The Nichols
Hills doctor told the medical licensure board that he took antidepressants,
records show. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressants-antidepressant-induced-violence-in-america</link>
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		<title>Luvox (SSRI)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luvox (SSRI) amy Bond Was prescribed Luvox to treat my OCD prior to during and after birth of my 2nd child Having OCD i I was obsessed that this drug may harm the baby. I was reassured that it is a safe drug Our son was born with double outlet right ventricle, craniosynostosis and otosclerosis. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/ssri-nightmares/luvox-ssri</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Alcohol Cravings &amp; Assault Lead to Fatal Heart Attack:  TN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. country songwriter Rich
Fagan says he wants his life to honor his publisher-friend Tom Oteri who died of
a heart attack after Fagan cut him
with a knife.
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressants-alcohol-cravings-assault-lead-to-fatal-heart-attack-tn</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANT:  Robbery:  Spits on Policeman:  England</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE son of a Worcester councillor has been jailed for spitting at a
police officer and stealing. 

Azad Hussain – whose father is former mayor
of Worcester Coun Allah
Ditta – stole £499 of electrical goods from a woman who was renting a house
from his family. 

Hussain, aged 25, claimed she owed him council tax and
said that he was seizing her belongings, including a high-definition television
and computer screen, until she paid up.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressant-robbery-spits-on-policeman-england</link>
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		<title>PROZAC:  State Representative Arrested for DUI &amp; Bail Jumping: Wisconsin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Wood (I-Chippewa Falls) was charged Thursday with driving under the
influence of prescription drugs and bail jumping - raising his chances of
becoming only the second lawmaker to be expelled from the Legislature in 161
years.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/prozac-state-representative-arrested-for-dui-bail-jumping-wisconsin</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANT:  Suicide:  Soldier:  Iraq/Kentucky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.”]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressant-suicide-soldier-iraqkentucky</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANT:  Woman Threatens Neighbor With Knife:  England</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An eight-year-old girl pleaded for
her mum to stop brandishing a knife at her neighbours after the woman threatened
to stab them. 
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressant-woman-threatens-neighbor-with-knife-england</link>
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		<title>ANTIDEPRESSANT: MILITARY SUICIDE:  IRAQ/KENTUCKY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.”

Four tumultuous years after
serving in the Middle East with the Kentucky Air National Guard, 25-year-old
Bryan Ala of Louisville took his life  part of a rising number of military]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/antidepressant-military-suicide-iraqkentucky</link>
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		<title>DEPRESSION MED: WOMAN &#8211; JAIL WARNING AFTER THREATING NEIGHBORS W/KNIFE:  UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An eight-year-old girl pleaded for her mum to stop brandishing a knife at her neighbours after the womanthreatened to stab them.

Joanne Ireson wielded the kitchen knife outside her home in Cardigan Road, East Reading, at about 8pm on Tuesday, June 16.

The fracas took place after Ireson’s daughter snuck off to play outside on her own and she shouted at her to come back.

But Ireson’s concerned neighbours got “the wrong end of the stick” and called police – causing her to threaten them with the blade.

At Reading Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, August 25, Ireson – of previously good character – admitted one count of possessing the eight-inch knife in a public place and one of using violence and/or threatening behaviour towards neighbour Daniel Thiemert.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/depression-med-woman-jail-warning-after-threating-neighbors-wknife-uk</link>
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