Threats jolt two Rutherford schools — (Daily News Journal)Tuesday, April 24th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Boy on Wellbutrin threatens classmates. Virginia Tech massacre blamed.
Man lying on tracks killed by train — (The Knoxville News-Sentinel)Saturday, March 31st, 2007SSRI Ed note: Knoxville man on antidepressants commits suicide by lying on tracks, waiting for train to run over him.
Seymour man pleads to wire fraud — (Knoxville News-Sentinal)Friday, March 30th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Man taking Paxil sets up a clumsy scheme to defraud people buying video equipment on the internet. Fined, gets up to 20 yrs in prison.
Gibson takes stand in own defense — (The Herald-Citizen)Thursday, March 29th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Lawyer taking antidepressants drinks, gets involved with convicted murderer, loses license to practice.
Guilty plea to charges of having toxic ricin — (The Knoxville News-Sentinal)Tuesday, February 6th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Man makes ricin, a highly poisonous substance, and builds up an arsanal, is federally charged for illegal possession.
Mystery of farmer’s death haunts his family — (The Tennessean)Sunday, October 8th, 2006SSRI Ed note: Teetotalling farmer on Effexor drinks, dies in struggle for shotgun with employee. Wife blames depression, agonizes for missing non-existent warning signs.
She had dead spouse in the bathroom, lover in the closet — (CNN.com)Saturday, September 23rd, 2006SSRI Ed note: Woman on cocktail of drugs, including two SSRIs, murders husband while lover hides in closet
Ex-judge blames his actions on wife’s affair — (Knoxville News-Sentinal)Saturday, August 26th, 2006SSRI Ed note: Man starts taking antidepressants after learning of wife's affair, starts drinking, engaging in corrupt activity.
Medicated student attacks teacher — (News Channel 3)Wednesday, February 15th, 2006SSRI Ed note: Teen, 15, on Adderall and Zoloft identifies that the drug is making him angry and aggressive, punches teacher in mouth. Expelled, charged.
Douglas Richardson v. Glaxosmithkline — (United States District Court, W.D. Tennessee)Monday, January 30th, 2006SSRI Ed note: Paxil makes man suicidal but lawsuit fails because of lack of proof of causality between the drug and the suicide attempts. Took other A/D as well.
Lawsuit Filed In Case Of Suicide After Paxil Use — (The Chattanoogan)Monday, November 28th, 2005SSRI Ed note: Teen, 16 with behavioural problems given drugs, 4 years later takes Paxil and shoots himself in the head in his grandmother's driveway. Lawsuit filed.
Mindy McCready Overdoses on Anti-Depressants (2005), Dead of Apparent Suicide (2013) — (Entertainment)Tuesday, September 27th, 2005SSRI Ed note: Singer with history of taking antidepressants that do not help, and suicide attempts, finally shoots and kills herself.
Admitted arsonist seeks probation — (Knoxville News-Sentinal)Wednesday, June 29th, 2005SSRI Ed note: Teen, 17, on SSRI sets fire to historic restaurant where he works, destroying the building.
VA pharmacist treated troubled man — (The Tennessean)Monday, March 7th, 2005SSRI Ed note: VA pharmacist prescribes Zoloft to man, his mental state worsens, she ups the dose, he goes on a shooting spree. No deaths, he gets 8-yr prison sentence.
Woman charged with suffocating girl — (The Commercial Appeal)Saturday, November 27th, 2004SSRI Ed note: Woman prescribed antidepressants murders the 7-yr-old daughter of a family friend, appears not to remember what happened.
Deputy’s estranged wife testifies at hearing — (Jackson Sun)Saturday, June 26th, 2004SSRI Ed note: Deputy on Paxil shoots wife's friend, everyone says this was totally unlike him and that at the time he was "not himself". He cannot explain it either.
Hawkins County man shoots both parents and himself, father survives — (WCYB TV)Monday, May 17th, 2004SSRI Ed note: Man stops taking medication, becomes depressed, shoots his parents and himself. He and his mother die.
Michael Harvey’s death: Friends recall teenager who was ‘good person that just snapped’ — (Knoxville News Sentinal )Wednesday, March 17th, 2004SSRI Ed note: Popular, church-going student, 16, with no history of problems takes antidepressants, shoots Sheriff's deputy and himself.
‘Dangerous’ sales – Marketing reps targeting doctors to prescribe drugs for off-label uses — (Tallahassee Democrat)Tuesday, November 4th, 2003SSRI Ed note: Doctor prescribes Prozac to man, 71, for chest pain, has no idea suicidality is side effect. Patient develops akathisia, hangs himself.
Steve Cole — (FDA 2004 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGIC DRUGS ADVISORY COMMITTEE WITH THE PEDIATRIC SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE ANTI-INFECTIVE DRUGS ADVISORY COMMITTEE)Friday, May 16th, 2003SSRI Ed note: 2004 FDA Hearings: Man, 70, given Prozac for chest pain commits suicide.
Skeen Admits to Rape, Murder — (WBIR News)Wednesday, May 14th, 2003SSRI Ed note: Man on Lexapro for one month kidnaps, rapes and murders a woman. Gets life
Judge to review ruling freeing killer— (Go Memphis)Saturday, September 21st, 2002
BOOZE AND PILLS KILL ROCK STAR STUART; Hawaii suicide of Big Country singer. — (The Daily Record)Tuesday, December 18th, 2001SSRI Ed note: Talented, successful musician, sober for 13 years, becomes depressed after marriage break-up, starts to drink again, hangs self on "pills and booze".
MOTHER SUES CCA IN PRISON HANGING — (The Commercial Appeal)Wednesday, May 31st, 2000
Medicines for teens backfire — (The Cincinnati Post)Tuesday, April 18th, 2000SSRI Ed note: Honour student and Boy Scout, 15, takes SSRI and turns on parents with shotgun, killing his Dad.
Dead woman’s family prays for husband accused of killing her — (The Oakridger)Monday, March 20th, 2000SSRI Ed note: Man on antidepressants kills wife, two firefighters and a Deputy Sheriff. Mental illness blamed.
STAMPER’S APPEAL IS DENIED COURT REJECTS INSANITY CLAIM — (The Commercial Appeal)Wednesday, March 15th, 2000
DEPRESSION PLEA REJECTED; WOMAN GETS LIFE SENTENCE — (The Commercial Appeal)Friday, August 13th, 1999
Family of three found dead — (Middleton Times-Tribune)Wednesday, July 14th, 1999SSRI Ed note: Mom on antidepressants shoots and kills her two teenagers and herself.
Reserve deputy charged – Neighbor slain with handgun — (Knoxville News-Sentinel)Wednesday, June 9th, 1999
STATE OF TENNESSEE VS PAUL CARR MOSS, JR — (COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE)Tuesday, June 1st, 1999
DOCTORS SAY STUDENT ISN’T COMPETENT FOR A TRIAL — (The Commercial Appeal)Friday, December 19th, 1997SSRI Ed note: Man who drinks is prescribed Prozac, hears voices, has other hallucinations, goes on shooting spree, diagnosed with schizophrenia. MDs conclude he needs meds.
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Woman Indicted In Killing Of Her Husband — (Knoxville News-Sentinel)Tuesday, March 3rd, 1992SSRI Ed note: Woman on Prozac kills her husband with a shotgun, offers motive that he would not get her a beer.
Slaying-Suicide Has Dyersburg Puzzled — (The Commercial Appeal)Friday, February 14th, 1992SSRI Ed note: Man upset over loss of job prescribed Prozac, murders live-in girlfriend and himself. Nobody can figure out the motive.
Trial Set For Man Accused Of Plot — (The Commercial Appeal)Saturday, June 1st, 1991SSRI Ed note: Man on heavy dose of Prozac engages in bizarre behavior - arsons, disappearance, fraud, murder-for-hire. Faces up to 35 years in prison.
Women Form Prozac User Support Group — (Park City Daily News)Tuesday, June 5th, 1990SSRI Ed note: Support group formed for people whose lives damaged by Prozac. Founder became emotionally unstable, violent, lost marriage, was self-destructive.
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