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Soldiers committing suicide

US troops are killing themselves in record numbers
On July 22, 2004, unable to handle the intensity anymore — the daily vomiting, the feeling that he was a murderer — Lucey wrapped a garden hose around his neck and hanged himself.
By JASON NOTTE  |  March 17, 2009
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Windows

In her new memoir, When I Grow Up , Boston icon Juliana Hatfield comes clean about her depression, and why Wal-Mart would have been blamed for her suicide
In the weeks leading up to the start of the college tour, I fell into one of my depressions, and with it some strange and disconcerting new sensations presented themselves.
By JULIANA HATFIELD  |  September 17, 2008
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Kramer: No one knows if Americans are overmedicated

Action speaks!
Action Speaks! its current focus on freedom with a look at the introduction of Prozac in 1987 and how it accelerated the tendency to treat mental illness with medication.
By IAN DONNIS  |  October 10, 2007
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Brain-O-Matic

Can a jolt from a nine-volt battery make you smarter? Happier? Medical researchers revive a discarded technology and set the stage for the ‘brain pod’
Stuart Gromley sits hunched over a desk in his bedroom, groping along the skin of his forehead, trying to figure out where to glue the electrodes.
By PAGAN KENNEDY  |  February 07, 2007

Goodbye Prozac

Rawness, weeping and clarity in the aftermath of the little pill
This article originally appeared in the March 1, 1996 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By CAROLINE KNAPP  |  November 14, 2006
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Suicide 2.0

Suicide web sites offer comfort for some, raise questions for others
The end of this month will mark five years since Josh G. committed suicide.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  April 07, 2006

Flashbacks: March 3

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Chris Brook and Jessica McConnell.
By EDITORIAL  |  March 01, 2006

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