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Death, Depression and Prozac
Cockburn, Alexander | April 18, 2005 issue

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Offers a look at the role of antidepressant drugs in homicides perpetrated by teenagers. Case of Jeff Weise, a teenager who killed ten others at the Red Lake Indian reservation in Minnesota, and who was on the drug Prozac; Presence of the antidepressant Luvox at the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado; Use of Prozac by Joseph Wesbecker who killed nine in Kentucky; Lawsuit against pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, manufacturer of Prozac, in the Wesbecker incident; Criticism of the clinical testing of Prozac; Connection between psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies; Research into the likely link between Prozac and violent acts.

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ANTIDEPRESSANTS; TEENAGERS & violence; DRUGS -- Physiological effect; WEISE, Jeff; WESBECKER, Joseph; SCHOOL shootings; ELI Lilly & Co. -- Trials, litigation, etc.; FLUOXETINE; RED Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.); UNITED States
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