Archive for Italy

Mort de Marco Pantani: la piste du suicide privilégiée à celle de l’homicide/ Marco Pantani’s Death Looks Like Suicide — (Libération)
SSRI Ed note: A new investigation reveals, 10 yrs after the death of top Italian cyclist, was more likely suicide than the originally reported cause.
Lauren’s niece faces claims for compensation after air-rage fine—(Independant.ie)
SSRI Ed note: Air rage incident involving antidepressant and alcohol
Your experiences of antidepressants — (The Guardian)
Medicalisation of misery to blame for soaring use of antidepressants, say GPs — (The Guardian)
Vatican gathering to address antidepressant use by children — (EWTN News)
Mental Illness in Homicide-Suicide: A Review — (Journal of the American Acadamy of Psychiatry and the Law)
SSRI Ed note: 30 studies reviewed, find mental illness a factor in 2,431 murder-suicides, mostly depression. Meds an obvious confounding variable not noticed by researchers.
Prime Minister of Italy Attacked by Man on Depression Med
Primo Levi’s Last Moments — (Boston Review)
SSRI Ed note: Holocaust survivor and writer dies suddenly on antidepressants, nobody can believe it was suicide.