How Lilly Gilded Prozac's Profile

This spring, Jeff Weise shot himself dead after taking the popular antidepressant Prozac.

He scored national headlines because he took nine innocent people down with him in the worst school shooting rampage since Columbine. Some now wonder whether Weise's antidepressant -- rather than depression itself -- may have finally pushed the troubled teenager over the edge. After all, unstable Prozac users have been pulling the trigger for years.

Joseph Wesbecker killed himself and eight others while taking Prozac back in the late 1980s, when the still-new drug was viewed as a miracle cure for depression. Relatives of the survivors blamed Prozac and sued its maker, Eli Lilly (LLY Quote), for damages. That case, which ended in a settlement, began to expose serious problems with drug research that have grown even more obvious over time. ...