Acne Magazine

This was a very disturbing story about an obviously quite disturbed young man in high school who is under serious suspicion (although his lawyer isn’t willing to contend he killed his girlfriend yet) of stabbing his young ex girlfriend to death while being treated with the acne drug Accutane, which has been linked in the past, although never definitively, to depression, suicidal thoughts and increases in agressive behavior. 

The story takes place in Pittsburgh PA, and it’s about a young man who was on the acne treatment drug and had broken up with his girlfriend.  The report is that he sent her a threatening text message the day before she was killed, and that witnesses report hearing loud screaming and fighting going on with the girl shouting “you stabbed me, i hate you” over and over and then collapsing in the arms of a neighbor who had come over, unconscious.  She died later of severe blood loss from a stab wound that was on her shoulder. 

The supposed young man who stabbed her, her ex boyfriend, had reportedly asked if he could be held accountable for a crime committed while he was on the acne drug accutane, so it made headlines that this drug could possibly have something to do with his state of mind during the murder he committed.  He also slashed his own throat. 

This is either a case that needs to be seriously looked at as a hazard to people with depression tendencies for accutane, or the fact that this person may be trying to escape accountability for a heinous crime because of a drug that he says had a hand in the murder.