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Prescription drugs are connected to school shootings and other violence, yet more drugs are touted as the solution Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And slowly we're beginning to see the general public recognizing the link between antidepressant drugs in our youth and violent behavior, including school shootings. Back in 1999, they blamed guns. So if the students had picked up knives and stabbed people to death, it would have been a knife problem? Give me a break; it's not a knife problem, or a gun problem… it's a medication problem. These schools are supposed to be drug-free zones, and yet half the kids are doped up on antidepressants and Ritalin. How is that drug-free?

Are antidepressant drugs an accomplice in the Virginia Tech shootings? (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

In that same article, published in September, 2006, I stated, "This finding helps explain why school shootings are almost always conducted by children who are taking antidepressants. We also know that SSRIs cause children to disconnect from reality. When you combine that with a propensity for violence, you create a dangerous recipe for school shootings and other adolescent violence." Sadly, that explanation rings true once again with the Virginia Tech shooting. Wherever we see school violence, antidepressant drugs seem to found at the scene of the crime. The correlation is not coincidence.

Omaha Shooter Robert Hawkins Had Been "Treated" For ADHD, Depression Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

In that article, I stated, "This finding helps explain why school shootings are almost always conducted by children who are taking antidepressants. We also know that SSRIs cause children to disconnect from reality. When you combine that with a propensity for violence, you create a dangerous recipe for school shootings and other adolescent violence. In April of this year, I also reported on the link between antidepressant drugs and the Virginia Tech shooting. See http://www.newstarget.com/021798.

The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing Gary Null and Amy McDonald See book keywords and concepts

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights reports that a review of US school shootings from 1998 to 2007 indicates that 38 percent of the perpetrators were taking psychiatric drugs. In Columbine, Colorado, Eric Harris was on the antidepressant Luvox when he and Dylan Klebold killed twelve classmates and a teacher, wounded twenty-three others, and killed themselves. Six years later, in 2005, Jeff Weise was taking Prozac when he shot and killed nine people before committing suicide.

Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation Charles Barber See book keywords and concepts

Short-term crisis counseling immediately after a traumatic event—the kind practiced by no doubt well-intentioned social workers and psychologists who descend on dazed victims and witnesses after some immense tragedy, like school shootings and Hurricane Katrina and 9/11—has been shown to be unhelpful, and sometimes destructive.37 Medication or therapy, it is important to understand that there are no panaceas. One must understand and accept that there are no magic bullets, no cure-all agents to rescue us from oblivion.

Why Doctors are Idiots: 150 Years of Disatrous Advice on Children's Health (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Result: Widespread school shootings in America. Tens of millions of children suffer stunted physical and mental development -- a dangerous side effects that doesn't emerge until 2007. See http://www.newstarget.com/021944.html 2000's Too posh to push? Don't worry, your obstetrician will schedule a C-section childbirth appointment and deliver the baby on YOUR schedule instead of Mother Nature's. It's more convenient for him, too, because then he can still make his golf game. Don't worry about the baby: There's no benefit to vaginal childbirth anyway, right?

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The study wasn't proof that the drug could trigger suicidality or akathisia, but the details of one case, that of a twelve-year-old boy, now seem eerily prescient in light of the school shootings that would hit headlines later in the 1990s. Once he started taking Prozac, the child began having violent dreams of killing his classmates until he himself was shot. The nightmares seemed so real that, upon waking, the boy began refusing to attend school. He was taken off the drug and hospitalized until his violent thoughts subsided.

Omaha Shooter Robert Hawkins Had Been "Treated" For ADHD, Depression Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

When you combine that with a propensity for violence, you create a dangerous recipe for school shootings and other adolescent violence. In April of this year, I also reported on the link between antidepressant drugs and the Virginia Tech shooting. See http://www.newstarget.com/021798.html What I said in that article has urgent application right now, following the Omaha shooting: A study published in the Public Library of Science Medicine (an open source medical journal) explored these same links in detail.

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Red Robin restaurants have pulled the Viagra bears from their game machines, replacing them with Prozac Pistols that let children simulate violent school shootings after taking psychotropic medications. Alzheimer's drugs for Congress The FDA has approved a new Alzheimer's patch that delivers brain-saving drugs through the skin. The agency was so thrilled by the performance of the drug that they not only approved it, they MANDATED its use on anyone with poor brain function. A massive shipment of the skin patches are now on their way to the U.S.

The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing Gary Null and Amy McDonald See book keywords and concepts

Drug-induced aggression and violence has briefly made it into the headlines as a result of recent school shootings. "A large number of the kids that have been committing incredible acts of violence have been taking psychiatric drugs," Dr. Breggin says: "Kip Kinkle, the Oregon shooter, was taking Prozac and Ritalin some time before the shooting; T. J. Solomon, who did the shooting in Georgia, on May 20, 1999, was on Ritalin. Eric Harris, the leader in the tragedy in Colorado in April, 1999, was taking the psychiatric drug Luvox at the time of the murders.

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Violent shootings correlated with antidepressant drugs In fact, remember the school shootings in Columbine where those high school students took rifles to school and blew away their classmates? Those students were on antidepressant drugs. Remember comedian Phil Hartman, whose wife killed him with a firearm and then shot herself? She was reportedly on antidepressant drugs, too.

Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill Kelly Patricia O'Meara See book keywords and concepts

Monica Davey and Gardiner Harris, "Family Wonders if Prozac Prompted School Shootings" New York Times, March 26, 2005. 2 Physicians' Desk Reference, PDR 2005 59 Edition, Eli Lilly Prozac, pp.1873-78. 3 Ibid, pp. 1873-78 4 Ibid, pp. 1873-78 5 U.S. Food and Drug Administration, "FDA Alert 07/2005 -Suicidal Thoughts or Actions in Children and Adults. 6 Wikipedia Internet Enclyclopedia: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. 7 Robert Kriegshauser, Termination Report Juvenile Diversion 2/3/99 Dylan Klebold. 8 Jefferson County Juvenile Diversion Program File, 2/3/99 Dylan Klebold.

In the aftermath of the Red Lake school shootings, a New York Times article quotes Tammy Lussier, Weise's aunt, "They kept upping the dose for him, and by the end he was taking three of the 20-milligram pills a day. I can't help but think it was too much, that it must have set him off." Lee Cook, another relative of Weise's, said in the same article, "I do wonder on top of everything else he had going on in his life, on top of all the other problems, whether the drugs could have been the final straw.

Were these the hysterical musings of relatives looking for an easy answer—any answer—to rationalize the troubled teenager's horrific actions, or had Weise's bewildered family raised an important question that, in spite of the fact that prescription psychiatric drugs have been involved in a growing number of the recent spate of school shootings, remains inexplicably taboo. According to news accounts, Weise suffered from depression, had been hospitalized for suicidal tendencies and, sometime in the summer prior to the attack, had been prescribed the antidepressant Prozac.

In reality, what becomes clear as one works through the list of the more famous school shootings over the last 10 years, the prescribed drugs rarely are even a consideration. Worse yet, whether a child-shooter has been prescribed a mind-altering psychiatric drug is only made public if the information is leaked by friends or family. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who went on a murderous assault at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., are perfect examples of leaked and protected information about psychiatric drug use.

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It is also interesting to note that in virtually all of the school shootings, the kids responsible for the violence were taking SSRI medications, which are known to produce suicidal and homicidal side effects. It is also known that these medications increase brain levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which in high concentrations can also act as an excitotoxin. Cocaine destroys brain cells in the limbic system by an excitotoxic mechanism, as does methamphetamine.

America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived Dr. Timothy Scott See book keywords and concepts

These stories typically noted that Andrea Yates (Houston bathtub drownings), Kip Kinkel (Jonesboro, Arkansas, shootings), Eric Harris (Columbine school shootings) and Christopher Pittman (South Carolina grandparents murdered) were on or had been on antidepressants.31 The relationship between violence against others and violence against self is apparent. Whether these suggestive stories had merit or not, they got attention. The British government announced in December 2003 that the only antidepressant which appeared not to increase the suicide rate among children was Prozac.

Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill Kelly Patricia O'Meara See book keywords and concepts

The following list of school shootings is an example of the number of children with a known history of psychiatric counseling and psychiatric drug use. Those "shooters" whose psychiatric background and psychiatric drug use is "unknown" does not mean there is no psychiatric history or psychiatric drug use but, rather, that the public has not been given this information.

Bartley was on psychiatric drugs remains a mystery. There are many questions beyond whether or not a school shooter had been prescribed a psychiatric mind-altering drug that remain unanswered—the least of which is: Does the public have a right to know which students daily are taking dangerous, even life-threatening psychiatric drugs?

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

Why the school shootings? Do our children sense a lack of hope coming from our leaders about the kind of world they will be inheriting? Things seem a lot bleaker than when I was growing up. Have we become too rich, smug and superior for our own good? Perhaps much of this malaise can be traced to the fact that U.S.-led global and domestic actions continue to be non-visionary and near-term business-as-usual. Policies seem to depend on quarterly bottom lines, terms of elective political office, media gossip, hidden agendas, and the threat of war and natural catastrophes. By its inaction, the U.S.

The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children Carol Simontacchi See book keywords and concepts

Practical Handbook of Nutrition in Clinical Practice^ ublicly the tales of our mental lives are told in the accounts that splash across the front pages of our newspapers about school shootings or violence in the workplace. We read about them when the latest test scores of students are released, or when a politician or panel of experts holds a town hall discussion or conducts a study about the safety of our neighborhoods and the societal issues plaguing America.

Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? The Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Additional details on these cases will be available in my new book soon to be published on the cases - the murder/suicides, the school shootings, and mothers who have killed their children.) In light of so many unspeakable tragedies, I have grown weary of all the silly philosophical discussions we have heard since Kramer's LISTENING TO PROZAC came out. Patients and their families are frantically searching for answers while this research sits right under our noses and could easily be made available to them.

But we have seen increases in murder/suicide, suicide, unwed pregnancies, domestic violence, manic-depression, MS, mothers (parents) killing children, road rage, school shootings, bankruptcies, divorce, hypoglycemia, diabetes, cancer, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and fibromyalgia since these serotonergic drugs have become so popular and I relate it directly to the effects of these serotonergic drugs. As the serotonergic-induced sleepwalk nightmares are acted out by these patients, the death toll has continued to climb drastically since the first publication of PROZAC: PANACEA OR PANDORA?

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