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12-04-2004, 07:35 PM
Dec 4, 5:37 PM EST
Dad Cites Boy's Antidepressants in Deaths
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Writer
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Authorities say three years ago, Christopher Pittman, then 12, shot his grandparents as they slept because they had scolded him for fighting. But Christopher's father, Joe Pittman, thinks his son killed because his sense of right and wrong was clouded by the anti-depressant Zoloft.
Joe Pittman spoke out against the drug in a Food and Drug Administration hearing early this year. The boy, who had threatened suicide, was put on the drug three weeks before the slayings, and his dose was doubled just two days earlier. cont.
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Dad Cites Boy's Antidepressants in Deaths
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Writer
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Authorities say three years ago, Christopher Pittman, then 12, shot his grandparents as they slept because they had scolded him for fighting. But Christopher's father, Joe Pittman, thinks his son killed because his sense of right and wrong was clouded by the anti-depressant Zoloft.
Joe Pittman spoke out against the drug in a Food and Drug Administration hearing early this year. The boy, who had threatened suicide, was put on the drug three weeks before the slayings, and his dose was doubled just two days earlier. cont.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/Z/ZOLOFT_DEFENSE?SITE=COFRI&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAU