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A wild animal ingests a large dose of a prescription antidepressant

Emily Sanders Hopkins
May 26, 2023
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Painting by Arthur Heming, from his book The Living Forest (1925). Source: The Public Domain Review

Wellbutrin Bear

It didn’t fall out of the sky from a plane. It was abandoned by a fugitive who realized that he would be able to run faster and maybe—just maybe—lose the cops who were chasing him through the forest, if only he weren’t carrying an 80-pound …

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