Document from workplace violence trial points finger at pharmacutical company

A workplace violence case almost 16 years old has resurfaced in recent allegations against a pharmacutical company. Eli Lilly and Co. has come under increasing scrutiny for the reported side effects of its antidepressant Prozac. The British Medical Journal claims to have reportedly missing documents from a 1994 trial holding Lilly responsible for the murder of 8 people on september 14th, 1989. Joseph Wesbecker was a printing press operator who was on disability leave for mental health reasons. He was reportedly taking fluoxetine, the generic name for Prozac, when he returned to his company armed with an AK-47, two Mac-10s and two other pistols. He killed 7 co-workers, wounding 12 others (one of which later died 4 days later). He then killed himself.
In the subsequent civil trial, a 1988 document allegedly testifies to the risks of drug to increase suicidal and homicidal tendencies. The study illustrates that 1.6 percent of patients reported incidents of hostility, over twice the rate reported on tests with four other commonly used antidepressants. Additionally, 0.8 percent of users of Prozac reported to have caused an intentional injury, a figure that is eight times the rate associated with any of the other antidepressants. The plaintiff in the case, surviving members of one of the victims claimed that Eli Lilly had known about the side effects of increasing a user's propensity to violence. Lilly won the court case but was later forced to reveal that they secretly settled the suit.
A statement on the company's Web site states, "To our knowledge, there has never been any allegation of missing documents from the Wesbecker trial or any other trial involving Lilly. Further, it has always been Lilly's objective to publicly disclose data about both the safety and efficacy of fluoxetine."