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To: jim_trent
Since this charge has been laid on anti-depressives, parents all over the country have stopped giving their kids those drugs or prevented them from being prescribed at all — and the number of suicides in that age group have gone up. What is the solution, then?

Close follow up when these drugs, SSRIs, are started, or the dose is increased. Maybe testing.

ANTIDEPRESSANT CASUALTIES

17 posted on 12/18/2007 1:43:43 PM PST by neverdem (Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
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To: neverdem
RE: Antidepressant casualties.

I suspect either you've not bothered to actually read through the stories linked on the page or you're hoping no one else will.

Story 1: Yvonne Jenkins accuses boyfriend of assaulting her and defends herself by shooting him. Not sure how an SSRI is relevant in any way. Wait, I'm sure it's not.
Story 2: Man, 41, took an SSRI, relative conjectures he overdosed. No other information given. Almost relevant.
Story 3: Dr. Joseph Caldonato shoots estranged wife. Later asks cellmate to finish the job when he is imprisoned. Surely not the only estranged husband to try to kill his wife. SSRI is raised by defense lawyer to try to win a "not guilty by reason of mental defect" judgment.
Story 4: Mark Hobson kills several people in the UK. He was prescribed SSRIs in the period just before the killing spree. However, he had stabbed a friend in an argument years prior, already exhibiting a homicidal potential.
Story 5: No details given other than guy was on Prozac. Posted on "Antidepressantfacts.com" or some such agenda-driven site.
Story 6: Postpartum depressed woman commits suicide after killing baby. Not much detail other than she had taken large amounts of darvocet in conjunction with the SSRI.
Story 7: Man without prescription for SSRI but who had large amounts of the SSRI on him, shoots woman after she refused to give him a cigarette.
Story 8: Terminally ill woman concerned over the future of her children kills them then commits suicide. Was on SSRI.
Story 8: Man becomes a different person after taking prozac, disowns family, gives extravagant gifts to people. Oh, by the by, he had a brain tumor and an operation on said tumor.

I got bored after that. Surely they could put better evidence on the front end of the list.

63 posted on 12/20/2007 8:06:46 PM PST by the808bass
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