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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22754)	3/26/2005 6:34:24 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81118

>And then the Americans are outraged when a kid goes crazy at a school or wherever and runs amok, killing many people. Until they find someone to sue -- in this case, the makers of a drug which the perpetrator of the mass murder was taking to control his own condition. The unrestricted access to dangerous weapons, especially by a youth who was clearly mentally deranged, is of no concern. No-one is responsible for that, and least of all, the government. theday.com >>On Friday, as Tammy Lussier prepared to bury Weise, the nephew whom she lived with, and her father, who was among those killed, she found herself looking back over the last year, she said, when Weise began taking Prozac, the antidepressant, after a suicide attempt she described as a “cry for help.” “They kept upping the dose for him, and by the end, he was taking three of the 20 milligram pills a day,” she said. “I can't help but think it was too much, that it must have set him off.” The recommended dosage range, according to the drug's maker, Eli Lilly, runs from 20 milligrams to 80 milligrams a day, so Wiese's 60 milligram dose fell in that bracket. Weise, though just 16, was more than 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds.<<