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ANTIDEPRESSANT: Suicide: Woman Leaps From 9th Floor: England

Ann Blake-Tracy05 mins

Geraldine Calvey, 45, died after throwing herself from the
ninth floor of a tower block in the Regent’s Park estate off Euston Road in
July.
St Pancras Coroner’s Court was told last Thursday how she had been
suffering from depression triggered by changes to her job, which included
hotdesking – moving from one seat to another a number of times – and the
responsibility of caring for her mother following an illness in 2005. The death

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ANTIDEPRESSANT: Robbery: Spits on Policeman: England

Ann Blake-Tracy05 mins

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.

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PROZAC: Not Guilty of Assault Using Prozac Defense: Kansas

Ann Blake-Tracy09 mins

A former Hutchinson Correctional Facility inmate charged with battering
correctional officers and another inmate told jurors this week “Prozac mania,”
from high dosages of the prescribed drug, caused his aggressive, impulsive
behavior.

The jurors agreed.

Andrew Housworth, 31, was found not

guilty Friday of five counts of battery against a correctional officer and two
counts of aggravated battery of a correctional officer and a fellow inmate.

During his trial this week before Reno County District Judge Tim
Chambers, Housworth admitted to spitting on correctional officers at the prison
and the Reno County jail in 2007.

He admitted to attacking a fellow
inmate at the Reno County jail in April 2008, hitting him and biting his cheek.

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ZOLOFT & ADDERALL: Linsay Lohan’s Family Plans Intervention: California

Ann Blake-Tracy03 mins

Lindsay Lohan’s family is planning to stage an intervention.

Lindsay’s father Michael Lohan – who claims she is addicted to prescription medication – revealed he and her mother Dina are concerned the star’s life is spiralling out of control and have discussed forcing their daughter to get professional help.

Michael said: “I had a conversation with her, her mother and everyone. Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to be doing things in a pretty public way.

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ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Two English School Boys Threaten to Blow Up High School

Ann Blake-Tracy012 mins

Last week a jury at Manchester Crown Court found two teenage English boys innocent of charges of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions.
The jury took just 45 minutes to dismiss the evidence offered by the prosecution – quite an impressive body of material by any standards, and some of it disturbingly familiar in tone to people in this country – and to accept the defence counsel’s plea that this was mere “fantasising” and the “hare-brained” schemes of two essentially well-adjusted teenagers.

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