Posts Tagged ‘ suicide ’

Lawsuits Needed Against Prescribing Quacks

April 24th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

On April 21, 2009, the Miami Herald reported that a 7-year-old boy in Florida, Gabriel Myers, had committed suicide by hanging himself with a detachable shower head in a bathroom of the foster care home he was placed in three weeks earlier. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ADHD, atypical antipsychotic, bipolar, Eli Lilly, Glaxo, J&J, paxil, Risperdal, Seroquel, SSRI, suicide, Symbyax, Zyprexa
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Rally in Denver for Ten Year Anniversary of Columbine

April 14th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

Ten years ago this month the violence and suicide caused by SSRI antidepressants gained international recognition in headlines all over the world when it became known that one of the teen shooters at the Columbine massacre, Eric Harris, had taken Zoloft in the past and was on Luvox at the time of the murder-suicide spree. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Columbine, GlaxoSmithKline, Luvox, paxil, Prozac, suicide, Zoloft
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