[news] Antidepressants and Suicide

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Did pills kill Tooker? Partner of eco commando, Angela Bischoff, probes tie between antidepressants and suicide By Stephen Humphrey | Now Magazine | AUGUST 4 - 10, 2005 Since the cold March of 2004 when Gomberg threw himself from a Halifax bridge, Bischoff has been shifting direction and raising her own kind of dust, not Gomberg-style with flaming passports or Robin Hood outfits, but in a series of info meetings. These appearances have nothing to do with the revival of the coal industry or the almost daily smog warnings, but with the antidepressant Remeron RD, which Bischoff links to the morbidly agitated state Gomberg was in when he ended his life. Her message concerns the sadly underplayed connection between pharmaceuticals and suicide.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/30/142630/876