 to experience that weight gain. Researchers credit the drug's ability to increase levels of dopamine and norepinephrine, which improve wakefulness and alertness. Prozac was not associated with a weight change. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News. Border Patrol says it arrested a woman from China for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles into Canada from Vermont. The turtles are a protected species and she'd stuff them in individual socks.