Unhappy pills?

摘要

In 1994, as lawyers for the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly were beginning a historic legal defence of the antidepressant Prozac, researchers were descending from all over the world on Miami Beach, Florida, for the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the American Society for Neuroscience. Among the 10,000 posters on show at the meeting, hundreds displayed research on the serotonin system, with scores of these devoted to fluoxetine hydrochloride, better known as Prozac. One poster showed the work of Ray Fuller of Eli Lilly, who invented Prozac. But Fuller wasn't there. He was in Louisville, Kentucky, giving evidence in the Eli Lilly Prozac trial. It involved a man called Joseph Wesbecker, accused of shooting 20 people in his workplace with an AK47 after being on Prozac for just over a month. Eight of his victims died and he committed suicide.