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The 10 Weirdest Drug Stories of the Month

By Jim Edwards

Updated on: July 30, 2010 / 4:01 PM EDT / MoneyWatch

Chronic drooling now has a cure! Inside the snake-charmer/Big-Pharma-industrial complex! Viagra for children! It all happened in July 2010 ...

Zoloft killer gets new trial A state judge has ordered a new trial for a South Carolina man whose attorneys said the antidepressant Zoloft caused him to shoot his grandparents and set fire to their home in 2001, when he was 12.
FDA approves drug for chronic drooling in children
Still to come: Drugs for chronic crying, chronic playing and chronic "but why, mom, why?"
Does San Diego booze raft floater Jon Kraemer still have a job?
Pharmaceutical sales rep gave interview to WSJ floating on an air mattress while tipsy on Bud Light. HR witchhunt expected.
Pfizer asks FDA to approve Viagra for children
It's for chronic lung conditions, you perv.
The dog ate $143 million of medical device maker's homework!
Lawyers missed patent filing deadlines causing losses at Nomir Medical Technologies.
Snake charmer arrested for selling cobra poison to drug companies
Black market venom trade is big business in India, it seems.
The weirdest pharma company logos, all in one place
These brands actually mean something: Clinuvel has a frill-necked lizard, Advaxis uses a Trojan horse. But Lupin might want to rethink its phallus-shaped arrangement of Trivial Pursuit game pieces.
Viagra gives STDs to men with ED
OK, so it's not cause and effect, but this study says pill-takers are more likely to engage in risky sex.
Former Amgen scientist starts his own whiskey distillery
"The beauty of whiskey versus a drug is that you have a lot more control over making the product different--so often with a drug, you kind of get what you get. So I try to make sure all our whiskeys are unique and offer something a little different than what you can buy on the shelf."
Mommy, don't drug your children just because they won't shut up
Journal of Pediatrics says use of pharmaceuticals to sedate rambunctious tots is "malicious," child abuse.

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