A Better Defense Of Andrea Yates... (tags)
...just ask Dr. David Dunner of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Washington. Andrea Yates' prescriptions to the psychiatric drugs known as Effexor and Remeron are what most likely caused her to go insane and murder her five children.
The author provides the reader with a Seattle mother's story of her son's 1990 suicide while on Prozac, a corrective to the media myth that Prozac produces few side effects at the passing of Eli Lilly & Co.'s patent on the drug at start of August, a brief history of Prozac and, finally, the author analyzes a recently published article by Dr. David Dunner of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Washington.