Julian Whitaker, MD, editor of the largest circulating health letter in North
America (over 500,000 subscribers), asks: "What would the Food & Drug Administration
do is there were 23,067 adverse reactions, including 1,436 suicides attempts and
1,313 deaths, associated with a natural supplement? Yet, PROZAC continues to be
prescribed and taken by desperate but unsuspecting sufferers of mental
depression."
Boy accused in Minnesota shooting rampage took medication for depression
WASHINGTON The 16-year-old boy who killed nine people and himself in Minnesota Monday was reportedly struggling with depression.
The Washington Post quotes a school cultural coordinator on the Red Lake Indian Reservation as saying Jeff Weise (wees) had been hospitalized for suicidal tendencies and was taking the anti-depressant Prozac.
Authorities still aren't sure what sparked the shooting rampage, but it's clear Weise was troubled. His father committed suicide in 1997 and his mother was left brain-damaged in a car wreck that killed a cousin.
A bus driver for a local health center tells the Post he took Weise to an off-reservation psychiatric ward where he voluntarily underwent treatment.
A friend from sixth grade says they often played video games together, but he says when they watched movies, Weise liked to skip ahead to the violent parts.
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