| Pete Wentz's dark days
Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz has revealed he once tried to kill himself after suffering from depression. The Emo rocker admitted his desperate cry for help in a video interview for the Jed Foundation's Half Of Us campaign, aimed at cutting student suicide rates. During the interview, Wentz says: "the darkest moment was when we had just finished recording our major label record and two days later we were going to go to Europe and I felt completely lost." Wentz then visited some doctors, who prescribed him 'Adavan', and a number of other drugs designed for combating depression and anxiety attacks, which he took all in one go. He said: "At that point, I'd seen some doctors and they were Hollywood doctors so they gave me a cocktail (of prescription doctors) but I was kind of the drugstore cowboy, so I took the cocktail the way I wanted to take it." Wentz, 28, recalls the day he swallowed the cocktail, in an electronics store car park.
UK to force drugmakers to share info
Britain plans to force pharmaceutical companies to share more information with regulators about clinical trials after an investigation recently concluded that GlaxoSmithKline PLC deliberately withheld information about an antidepressant. The four-year probe by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, completed earlier this month, said the British company should have revealed more quickly that Seroxat sometimes increased the suicide risk in teenagers - by more than six times. But without stronger legislation in place, the MHRA admitted there is no chance of prosecuting the company for what the agency perceives as an ethical lapse. "I remain concerned that GSK could and should have reported this information earlier than they did," MHRA chief executive Kent Woods said in a statement.
Patrols nab eight alleged drunk drivers
Saturation patrols conducted Saturday night into Sunday morning netted eight suspected drunk drivers in Southwestern Indiana, state police announced this morning in a news release. The extra patrols started at 10 p.m. Saturday and went through 4 a.m. Sunday, during which time troopers arrested the eight drivers and also issued 23 traffic tickets. Of the arrested drivers, three were in Warrick County, three were in Vanderburgh County, one was in Pike County and one was in Posey County. State police said in the release they will continue to conduct the saturation patrols to "apprehend intoxicated drivers and to deter others from drinking and driving." - Gavin Lesnick .
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