Archive for Texas (TX) – Page 2

Dallas Police Chief's Son David Brown Jr. Reportedly High Before Cop Killing — (ABC News)
Woman found in lake, missing three years — (KYTX)
Researchers Assess What Works Best to Prevent PTSD — (HealthDay)
Former cutter launches self-harm support group— (Victoria Advocate)
Arson suspect's son says mom needs mental help — (KTRE)
Suicide casts long shadow after decade of war — (Activist Post)
Police Investigating Dallas Galleria Death as Suicide — (navbug.com)
Are there drugs that kill love? — (Business Insider)
Man Kills Wife After Doubleing His Dose of Depression Med
Man Kills Sheriff's Deputy
NTSB Cites Pilot Error for 2011 Z Islander Apartments Plane Crash — (KBTX.com)
IN THE LINE OF FIRE: Documents reveal Sharp’s possible motives, preparation for attack — (McKinney Courier-Gazette)
SSRI Ed note: Man, 29, on Ritalin, Wellbutrin and Paxil has suicidal thoughts, violent fantasies, commits suicide by firing on police building. Police oblige, shoot him.
Woman With Scissors Lunges at Police: Is Fatally Shot
Mother is charged with killing boy, 6 — (The Boston Globe)
SSRI Ed note: Woman with history of depression, suicide attempts, on antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, plans to kill son and self. He dies, she lives, gets 45 yrs.
War casualty on the home front: A poster boy for suicide prevention, Houstonian becomes another statistic — (The Houston Chronicle)
SSRI Ed note: Former marine recently prescribed antidepressant commits suicide, despite his own awareness-raising efforts about it.
Woman Shoots Self in Leg: Blames Two Non-Existent Intruders
20 Year Old Sets 10 Churches on Fire: Receives Life Sentence
Man Given 7 Year Sentence For Shooting at Police
Famous Drummer Presecribed a Dangerous Combo of Antidepresants that Led to a Grand Mal Seizure
SSRI Ed note: Drummer in new wave band Stick People takes antidepressants, suffers grand mal seizure.
Military kids taking more psychiatric drugs — (Army Times)
Husband Commits Suicide: Wife Writes About It In Her Christmas Card
Man Commits Suicide: Brother Writes About His Death
Woman in Psychiatric Hospital for 7 Days Given 1SSRI Editor Different Meds in SSRI Editor Days
Texas Foster Children Over Medicated: 18 Year Old Leaves Foster Care & Meds: Can Now Run Again
Librarian Shoots Fellow Librarian Inside Library
Soldier, 26 Years Old, Home From Iraq Is Taking 2 Antidepressants & Sleeping Pill: Kills Self
Toxicology fails to explain killing — (Amarillo Globe-News)
SSRI Ed note: Man on antidepressants with no criminal or problem history drinks, tries to abduct woman, girl, shoots, kills grandmother. No motive identified.
Michael Perry Executed in Texas for 2001 murders — (3 Sources)
Man Uses Knife To Attack An Acquaintance
Loving Grandfather Commits Suicide
Woman Kills Best Friend-CoWorker At their Place of Business
Woman Mayor Kills Daughter & Self
22 Year Old Kills 6 Month Old Baby: Appeals Court
Municipal Judge Killed by Husband, an Attorney: He Then Kills Himself
Soldier's Condition Made Worse by Antidepressants: Recovers From Depression Using Acupuncture
Dangers of prescription drug abuse hit home – The Other Drug War — (Houston Chronicle)
SSRI Ed note: Addicted woman dies from effects of taking 9 prescriptions, including lorazepam, citalopram and a muscle relaxant.
Man Turns to Appeals Court on Robbery Sentence
Nurse Kills Self After Abrupt Change in Depression Meds
City Councilman's Wife Tells Group at Meeting that She Beat Up Her Husband
Postpartum: Mother Drowns Two Month Old Baby
Rocker battles depression by sharing hope, passion — (The Columbus Dispatch)
SSRI Ed note: Musician on Paxil has meltdown on airplane, does not remember, gets diagnosed bipolar, prescribed antipsychotic. SSRI not suspected.
Family Says Man Had Bad Reaction to Zoloft: Violently Burglarized Neighbor's House
Eric Jasinski jailed for not deploying to Iraq — (Courage to Resist Newsletter)
SSRI Ed note: Soldier given trazodone and Zoloft for PTSD told to deploy to Iraq, he refusesF.
Woman Teacher Steals $50.00. Superintendent Said She was Acting Out of Character in Many Ways
Postpartum: Mother Attempts to Murder 20 Month Old Daughter
9 Year Old Hangs Himself in School Restroom
Wrong-Way Crash: Four Dead: Two Injured: Defendent Found Guilty
26 Year Old Dies: Possible Intention Overdose: Toxicology Being Performed
193 — (Texas Monthly)
SSRI Ed note: Woman given antidepressant for postpartum depression, her husband often prevents her taking it, she stabs him to death, 193 times.
Over the Meds and Under the Hood — (Truethout)
SSRI Ed note: Psychiatrist who is part of a system that grossy over-prescribes psychoactive drugs goes on a rampage himself, killing 13. Later he is sentenced to death.