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• Psychologist says meds made S.C. boy kill
• A psychiatrist testified at a boy's murder trial Friday that the antidepressant Zoloft caused the 12-year-old to kill his grandparents with a shotgun and burn their house down.
• "I think there is a very strong case to say the drug has caused a problem," said Dr. David Healy, an expert from Britain.
• "I'm saying at the time this murder happened, he did not have the capacity to know right from wrong."
• Healy testified for the defense at the trial of Christopher Pittman, now 15.
• He is charged with killing Joe Pittman, 66, and Joy Pittman, 62, while they slept in 2001.
• The defense has argued that the boy is not guilty because Zoloft made him unable to tell right from wrong.
• Prosecutors have countered that Pittman was angry at his grandparents for disciplining him for choking another student on a school bus.
• About a month before the slayings, Pittman was hospitalized after threatening to kill himself.
• He was prescribed the antidepressant Paxil and was later put on Zoloft.
• Last October, the Food and Drug Administration ordered Zoloft and other antidepressants to carry "black box" warnings - the government's strongest warning short of a ban - that say they can raise the risk of suicidal behavior in children.

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