Mother Claims Acne Drug Drove Son to Suicide Flight
from the where-to-start? dept.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is one of several sites carrying the story of a lawsuit filed by Julia Bishop, the mother of the 15-year-old boy who last January wrote a note praising Osama bin Laden, then flew a private plane into a Tampa office building. In her suit, which targets drug company Hoffmann-La Roche, Bishop claims that her son, an otherwise happy, well-adjusted child, was made psychotic by use of the company’s Accutane acne medication. Although Accutane has been associated with suicide, and carries a warning label to that effect, the company’s position is that teenage acne sufferers are simply more prone to suicide than the general population. “We continue, as do the experts, to believe there is no link,” said company spokeswoman Carolyn Glynn.
