Murder Attempt Prozac 13/10/1998 Scotland *Woman Stabs Boyfriend: Used Prozac Defense: Placed on Probation
 
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       <td width="175"><a href="http://ssristories.drugawareness.org/archive/showf672.html?item=1163">Murder Attempt</a></td>
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       <td width="100">1998-10-13</td>
       <td width="100">Scotland</td>
       <td width="639"><strong>*Woman Stabs Boyfriend: Used Prozac Defense: Placed on Probation</strong></td>
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Summary:<br><br><div><font face="arial" size="2"><strong>First three paragraphs read: &quot;</strong>A young mother who flew into a<strong> knife-wielding rage </strong>and attacked her lover has blamed th<strong>e drug Prozac. &quot;<br /><br /></strong>Yesterday Lynette Lothian, 21, was placed on probation after a sheriff heard<strong> she had changed her medication. <br /><br />Prozac</strong> is said to improve your mood but th<strong>e court was told it has been linked to swings in behaviour. <br /><br /><br />Prozac turned me into a knife maniac. <br /></strong>280 words<br />13 October 1998<br />Scottish Daily Record<br />21<br />English<br />(c) 1998 Scottish Daily Record &amp; Sunday Mail Ltd<br /><br />A young mother who flew into a knife-wielding rage and attacked her lover has blamed the drug <strong>Prozac</strong>. <br /><br />Yesterday Lynette Lothian, 21, was placed on probation after a sheriff heard she had changed her medication. <br /><br /><strong>Prozac</strong> is said to improve your mood but the court was told it has been linked to swings in behaviour. <br /><br />Previously, Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard Lothian was prescribed the drug as her romance with a man twice her age turned sour. <br /><br />A week later, she exploded in a rage because she believed boyfriend Donald Stewart preferred the pub to her and their baby daughter, now aged one. <br /><br />Mr Stewart twice disarmed petite Lothian of knives she brought from the kitchen then threw her out of the home they shared at Rosewell, Midlothian. <br /><br />But Lothian, now of Milton Street, Edinburgh, managed to get back in and launch a third attack on Mr Stewart, who is in his early 40s. <br /><br />She was initially accused of attempted <strong>murder</strong> but the charge was later reduced to assault to severe injury, which Lothian admitted. <br /><br />Sheriff Nigel Morrison, QC, heard trouble flared after Lothian and Mr Stewart went to their local pub last December and discussed their future. <br /><br />Nigel Beaumont, defending, said Lothian had been taking <strong>Prozac</strong> for about a week for depression. <br /><br />Mr Beaumont added: &quot;It may be that a moderate quantity of alcohol was exacerbated by the drug. <br /><br />&quot;In this country there have been a number of incidents of difficult behaviour of people taking the drug.&quot; <br /><br />He said Lothian was now on milder medication and her relationship with Mr Stewart was over.&nbsp;<br /><br /></font></div> 
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