A Punta Gorda man has been charged with lacing the food and drinks of a niece and nephew with antidepressants, police said. ...more

December 13, 2008

As the needle dug into the skin of her abdomen Thursday afternoon, Miss Dixie fixed her attention on a spot on Tigermoon Tattoo's purple ceiling. ...more

July 19, 2008

Dear Friend: There's this thing that's been hovering over me lately, gnawing into my mind like a bad dream. It's an empty desk where a peer once sat or a phone call never returned. It's the startlingly high rate of suicide in this country, and it's really scary. ...more

July 13, 2008

After decades of inattention to the possible psychiatric side effects of experimental medicines, the Food and Drug Administration is now requiring drug makers to study closely whether patients become suicidal during clinical trials. ...more

January 24, 2008

As a registered nurse that has had her eyes opened wide of late to how broken our medical profession is, I just wanted to share this little tidbit. ...more

January 20, 2008

The makers of antidepressants such as Prozac and Paxil never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, misleading doctors and consumers about the drugs' true effectiveness, a new analysis has found. ...more

January 17, 2008

A woman who died in police custody during an airport layover was intoxicated on a potent mix of alcohol and antidepressants and accidentally strangled herself on her shackles, an autopsy released Friday concludes. ...more

November 10, 2007

Warnings four years ago that antidepressants were increasing suicidal behavior among young people caused a precipitous drop in the drugs' use - a drop that coincided with an unprecedented increase in suicides in that age group, a new study has found. ...more

September 6, 2007