Author: Jon Merz
Date: 02-13-04 15:23
Source: N.Y. Times
URL: http://nytimes.com/2004/02/12/health/12SUIC.html
Date published: February 13th 2004
Student, 19, in Trial of New Antidepressant Commits Suicide
By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: February 12, 2004
19-year-old college student who had shown no outward signs of depression killed herself over the weekend at an Eli Lilly & Company laboratory in Indianapolis where she had been participating in a company drug trial for an experimental antidepressant.
The student, Traci Johnson, was one of 25 healthy patients at an Eli Lilly clinic who were being given larger than therapeutic doses of duloxetine, which will be known as Cymbalta if it is introduced as an antidepressant. Four days before her death, Ms. Johnson was taken off Cymbalta and given a placebo.
http://nytimes.com/2004/02/12/health/12SUIC.html
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