Cymbalta (Yentreve, duloxetine) acts on both norepinephrine and serotonin receptors, much like the old tricyclic antidepressants do. Cymbalta (Yentreve, duloxetine) is most closely related to the SSNRI Effexor (venlafaxine), Wyeth's antidepressant. In earlier clinical trials, Cymbalta (Yentreve, duloxetine) had failed to demonstrate its effectiveness as an antidepressant and there were four participants who had committed suicide whilst taking Cymbalta (Yentreve, duloxetine).

Traci Johnson, 19, a healthy volunteer with no recent history of depression, joined a later trial in early January 2004. She was the fifth participant who committed suicide on the 7th of February 2004, by hanging herself in Lilly Laboratory for Clinical Research. She initially had been given Cymbalta (Yentreve, duloxetine) but, at the time of her death, had been taking a placebo for four days.  Another SSNRI, Effexor (venlafaxine), which is most closely related to the Lilly SSNRI Cymbalta (Yentreve, duloxetine), has listed side-effects such as:
akathisia & mania, delirium, hallucinations and paranoid delusion, following use or discontinuation of the drug.

What could have happened to Traci Johnson? With the latest knowledge regarding severe withdrawal reactions that are repeatedly being observed in SSRI/SSNRI discontinuation, as reported by physicians in Effexor, it is not difficult to understand that Traci Johnson suffered from severe withdrawal reactions after discontinuation of Cymbalta (Yentreve, duloxetine).

WHY HANGING? Why such a violent method? Eli Lilly's Cymbalta (Yentreve, duloxetine) is a drug that similar to Eli Lilly's Prozac (Sarafem, fluoxetine) acts on serotonin and next to it on nor-epinephrine in the brain. It is not a coincidence that violent methods of suicide have been associated with the serotonin acting drug Prozac before. See: Fluoxetine and Violent Death in Maryland: violent methods in fluoxetine suicides.

Clearly, Cymbalta (Yentreve, duloxetine) is another very powerful mind-altering and potentially lethal new SSNRI antidepressant, stress urinary incontinence & diabetic nerve pain medication to protect yourself from and especially your children.

Sept 4, 2004:   Attorney questions FDA probe of Lilly: Family of Cymbalta/Yentreve trial suicide victim [Traci Johnson] says it wasn't consulted; details of investigation still unreleased. The information the FDA gathered to investigate Johnson's suicide appears to have come primarily from Lilly. "It's difficult to believe . . . the information provided to the FDA was objective and not self-serving," he [attorney] said... Read more.