[SSRI-Research] Zoloft workplace violence: Man killed two business partners

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> JustSayNo

> Tue, 06 Jul 2004 02:38:34 -0000

> [sSRI-Research] Zoloft workplace violence:

> Man killed two business partners

>

> Yet another workplace violence on Zoloft: Man who

> killed two business

> partners in 1997 denied new trial

>

> This man's two business partners, Jack Badler and

> Howard Librot,

> would be alive today if the SSRIs had never been

> invented.

>

> We have over 400 murder cases involving SSRIs in my

> computer so that,

> when the time comes to file criminal charges against

> the

> pharmaceutical companies, we will have a record of

> at least some of

> the crimes that have been committed.

>

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> Sharon murderer blames Zoloft for '97 killing spree

> By Dave Wedge

> Wednesday, May 19, 2004

>

> A Sharon double killer whose 1999 insanity bid was

> rejected claims he

> was ``involuntarily intoxicated'' by Zoloft and

> turned homicidal

> because of the anti-depressant's ``toxic'' effects.

>

> Richard Shuman, who is serving a life sentence for

> the 1997 murders

> of his business partners, Jack Badler and Howard

> Librot, claims

> Zoloft prescribed to him eight days before the

> killings sent him into

> a ``severe drug-induced agitation'' called

> akathisia.

>

> The condition, marked by explosive violence and

> suicidal tendencies,

> gained widespread publicity in 2000. Shuman claims

> he should get a

> new trial based on ``important new research

> specifically linking

> Zoloft'' to akathisia. Dedham Superior Court Judge

> Margaret Botsford

> last week denied his motion for a new trial.

>

> Shuman, 55, reportedly fell into a deep depression

> because of work

> woes and was put on Zoloft after attempting suicide.

> On Aug. 5, 1997,

> he shot Badler, 50, at a Stoughton office, drove a

> mile and then

> fatally shot Librot, 60.

>

> ``I think Richard Shuman is a very, very decent

> individual and was a

> wonderful family man,'' his trial attorney, Kevin

> Reddington, said.

>

> ``I think that a lot of the grief from that case

> lies at the foot of

> the doctor who prescribed him that medication.''

>