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In Final Hours, Despair Defeated Poet Indian-Born Writer Apparently Killed Herself, 2-Year-Old in D.C. Home By David A. Fahrenthold and Simone Weichselbaum Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, July 18, 2003; Page A01 A prize-winning poet who used verse to describe her experiences as a child and as an Indian immigrant was identified by D.C. police yesterday as the woman who apparently slashed the left wrist of her 2-year-old son and her own Wednesday and then died with him in a pool of blood. Reetika Vazirani, 40, and Jehan Vazirani Komunyakaa were found lying next to each other in the dining...

<p>June 14, 2003 -- A New Jersey mother whose daughter mutilated herself while on the controversial anti-depressant drug Paxil called yesterday for a ban on its use to treat children.</p> <p>The call for a ban comes hot on the heels of alarming new research released earlier this week that claims depressed children who take the drug become more suicidal - and a warning from the Food and Drug Administration, The Post has learned.</p>

Nearly 40 Tennesseans have filed suit against pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, charging the company did not properly inform patients of potential addictive side effects of the antidepressant drug Paxil. The suit, filed recently in Middle Tennessee’s U.S. District Court, asks Federal District Court Judge Todd Campbell to award damages of at least $1 million per plaintiff to individuals who say they suffered adverse physical and psychological effects akin to withdrawal symptoms when they stopped using Paxil, but had not been previously warned by the makers of the drug that such effects were possible. Legal documents state that GlaxoSmithKline knowingly marketed Paxil...

Is my TV the only one? I have been watching Foxnews and the media silence has been broken around the SSRI related violence. Fox has been brave here as they will surely lose advertising revenue. I have seen the side effects of these drugs first hand. A ex-friend of mine shot three people here in Memphis. He was a calm, good looking, basically normal son of an FBI agent, who was mildly depressed when he sought "treatment". He first became manic and then was put on a cocktail of drugs. He became withdrawn and stone faced shortly before the spree....

<p>Should school systems be allowed to recommend that children be put on psychoactive drugs?</p> <p>A 12-year-old upstate boy says the trusted educators in his local school forced him to take a cocktail of drugs that turned him into a psychotic who heard voices in his head.</p>