April 18, 2024

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ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Suicide of Soldier: Iraq/Oklahoma

Ann Blake-Tracy06 mins

OKLAHOMA CITY The latest Oklahoma soldier to die in Iraq had become depressed and demoralized by the deaths of friends in combat, and family members suspect he committed suicide, his sister said Friday.

The Defense Department announced Thursday that Spc. Matthew Hastings, 23, of Claremore, died Monday from injuries he received in an incident not related to combat in Baghdad. A cause of death hasn’t been released by military officials, who say an investigation is under way.

Michelle Brazil believes her brother committed suicide based on a recent e-mail his best friend received just before he died.

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ANTIDEPRESSANTS: 77 Year Old Man Commits Suicide: England

Ann Blake-Tracy07 mins

A GRIEVING son said his father should have been cared for at a Basingstoke psychiatric hospital to stop him from killing himself.

Bernard Jeenes, 77, was found dead in his kitchen, in Cayman Close, Popley, Basingstoke, on June 7, after taking an overdose of anti-depressants and hanging himself.

His son Mark, who found his body, told an inquest into his death that his father had begged to be admitted to the mental health unit at Parklands Hospital after a suicide attempt the week before he died.

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ZOLOFT: Bizzare Suicide: New York

Ann Blake-Tracy04 mins

PORT CHESTER – Toxicology results on Chris Corna released this week do not change the Westchester medical examiner’s conclusion that the popular Colorado restaurateur’s death was a suicide, but police are not closing their investigation.

The car Chris Corna of Steamboat Springs was driving very early May 18 crashed into a bridge abutment after he slit his throat, the medical examiner said. A bloodied kitchen knife was found in the car. Either trauma was enough to kill him, Medical Examiner Millard Hyland said at that time.

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ANTIDEPRESSANT: Suicide: England

Ann Blake-Tracy07 mins

Second paragraph reads:  “Steven Rodgers was found dead in his bed after overdosing on prescription drugs for a heart condition and depression.” http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/Lovesplit-torment-ended-in-tragedy.5524741.jp Love-split torment ended in tragedy Published Date: 05 August 2009 By Lisa Nightingale A father killed himself after falling into depression contributed to by years of problems with his estranged wife, an…

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CELEXA: Death: Probably a Suicide: Day After Leaving Hospital: England

Ann Blake-Tracy03 mins

Paragraph nine reads:  “Consultant pathologist Dr Dariusz Golka said the cause of death was overdose of the anti-depressant citalopram  [Celexa].” http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Man-took-overdose-a-day.5545843.jp Man took overdose a day after hospital Published Date: 12 August 2009 A MAN died from a fatal overdose less than 24 hours after being released from hospital, an inquest heard. Philip John Bromley,…

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Experts: Women are drinking more, DUIs are up 28.8% from 1998-2007

Ann Blake-Tracy017 mins

Note from Ann Blake-Tracy: After researching and warning for two decades that this crisis with alcohol consumption would come, I can tell you the reason so many women are now drinking is because they are the main ones taking antidepressants which in turn cause overwhelming cravings for alcohol. And it has long been known that women suffer more adverse reactions to antidepressants than men do. But why cravings for alcohol? These drugs drop the blood sugar causing cravings for sugar and/or alcohol and NutraSweet. Sugar and alcohol initially bring the blood sugar up quickly causing one to instinctively reach for them in a “self medicating” way because they quickly address the low blood sugar level.

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Kauffman Study – (SSRI) Drugs: More Risks Than Benefits?

Ann Blake-Tracy255 mins

As the number of “anecdotes” exceeds 1,600—hardly a small number—the association of SSRIs with murder/suicide, often combined, must be taken seriously. The SSRI website was searched to find combined murder/suicide incidents attributed to a specific SSRI. There were three for fluvoxamine, four for citalopram, 10 each for paroxetine and sertraline, and 31 for fluoxetine. Where the studies above substantiated suicide from SSRI use, the total on the SSRI website of 48 simultaneous murder/suicide incidents associated with SSRI use ties together SSRIs and murder. Since there were about two murders per suicide, we may infer that the murder rate on SSRIs could be about 250/100,000. Since no clinical trial involving multiple homicides is ever likely to be run, no firmer evidence is likely to be found. Healy noted that much of the evidence for suicide and murder came from the efforts of journalists and lawyers.

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