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Joshua Dunbar was described as an exceptionally bright but hyperactive 7-year-old who was being treated with a generic version of Ritalin. On Nov. 10, 2001, he told his mother he didn't feel well. He went to sleep about 2 p.m. that day. When he couldn't be awakened, he was taken to the hospital emergency room in Española. He was later airlifted to Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque. Joshua spent six days in a coma and two months at Albuquerque hospitals. His lawyers say diagnostic tests confirmed strokes and permanent brain damage. In a lawsuit that went to trial late last month,...

16-Year Old Boy Received Unsolicited Prozac in the MailBy Theresa Agovino The Associated PressPublished: Jul 19, 2002 NEW YORK (AP) - A 16-year-old boy was among southern Florida residents who received unsolicited samples of the antidepressant drug Prozac in the mail in a much-criticized and highly unorthodox marketing campaign. "I was livid," said the boy's mother, Sue Grinstead of Palm Beach. "My son knew enough not to take it, but what about the other kids?" A spokesman for the Walgreen Co. drugstore chain, Michael Polzin, confirmed the family's account that a month's supply of Prozac was sent to 16-year-old Michael...