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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

REPPED: The United States is gaining a reputation around the world for raising children who go on school shooting rampages. Earlier this year, we had another one with 16-year-old Jeff Weiss, who went into his school on an Indian reservation and blew away 10 friends. And guess what? He was taking the antidepressant Prozac. Once again we see the link between antidepressants and violent behavior. I was raising the alarm about this in 1999 following the Columbine schools shootings.

Ten children die in this school shooting, and it gets a lot of attention. Why? It's violent; people pay attention to violence. Meanwhile, we have 100,000 Americans (and that's a conservative number) dying every year just from prescription drugs side effects, and it gets no attention. Why? It's not violent. These 100,000 people die separately, and they die quietly. They die in homes or in hospitals. There's no fiery crash, there's no late-night footage for the news, there's no big explosion and there's nothing to report to the tabloid papers. It's just 100,000 people dying silently.

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In Austin, Texas in 1966, Charles Whitman went up into the Texas Tower, the first school shooting in the United States. Forty-eight hours later, the FBI held a press conference and said no drugs were found in Whitman's body. This is the same report that we got on the incident at Columbine High School with Eric Harris. No drugs were found in the body. Now we learn that, in fact, Whitman had been on prescription amphetamines. He was displaying a classic amphetamine psychosis. According to the FBI, he had been eating amphetamines like popcorn while he was up on the tower shooting people.

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Every single school shooting involving a child in the United States in the last 15 years has been linked to antidepressant drug use. Need I say more? 13. Chemical laundry detergents Parents are shown fancy ads on television depicting how wonderful and clean their clothes will be if they wash them in brand-name laundry detergent. What they're not shown, however, is the toxicity of all the synthetic chemicals that go into most laundry detergent products. The fragrance chemicals alone are often carcinogenic, and they're just as bad for the environment as they are children's health.

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This is not the first time a school shooting rampage has been linked to antidepressants. The infamous Colombine High shootings took place almost exactly eight years ago, and the shooters in that rampage were also -- you guessed it -- taking antidepressant drugs. What is it about antidepressant drugs that provokes young men to pick up pistols, rifles and shotguns, then violently assault their classmates? Clearly, there's something wrong with the mind of anyone who engages in such violent acts. Could the drugs be "imbalancing" their minds, priming them for violence?

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Every single school shooting can be traced to the use of these drugs,' Dr Ann Blake, author of Prozac: Panacea or Pandora?, told journalist Sally Eyden in the Daily Express.19 In 2000, Dr David Healy of the University of Wales College of Medicine did his own experiment by taking a group of 20 healthy volunteers with no record of depression and putting them on an SSRI for two weeks. Two became suicidal. One was a 30-year-old woman who became obsessed with the idea of throwing herself under a car or train. The othet was 28, also female, and fantasized about hanging herself.

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The economy of suburban sprawl was a systemic self-organizing response to the availability of inordinately cheap oil with ever-increasing entropy expressed in an ever-increasing variety of manifestations from the destruction of farmland to the decay of the cities, to widespread psychological depression, to the rash of school shooting sprees, to epidemic obesity. Americans didn't question the validity of the suburban sprawl economy. They accepted it at face value as the obvious logical outcome of their hopes and dreams and defended it viciously against criticism.

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Mark Taylor, a survivor of the deadliest school shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., was one of many to tell the committee how SSRIs had adversely affected his life, (in part) "/ am one of the victims, one of the many victims of the SSRI antidepressant era. I took 6-13 bullets in the heart area at my high school when Eric Harris, who was, in fact, on Luvox, fired at me. They almost had to amputate my leg and my arm. My heart was missed by only one millimeter. I had three surgeries. Five years later I am still recuperating.

In less than 10 minutes, and with 45 gunshots, the Red Lake assault became the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history and, at the end of the day, 10 people, including the shooter, were dead, seven others wounded and a nation watched in horror, again wondering why. The best and brightest in mental health, education and law enforcement have been contemplating this question for more than a decade, unable to come to meaningful conclusions.

When it comes to school shooting tragedies, the attack at Columbine is the granddaddy of all child-perpetrated assaults. Eighteen-year-old Harris and 17-year-old Klebold planned and executed the grisliest, most inhumane and senseless schoolhouse attack the nation had ever known. The teenagers savagely had exposed our vulnerabilities and, together, we mourned the innocent victims.

Despite one of the most intensive investigations of any school shooting, the public still has not been provided all the pieces to the puzzle. The basic information about the shooters provides little in the way of clues to their murderous madness. Harris and Klebold came from two-parent, middle-class, suburban homes, both having played little-league baseball. Harris reportedly had been a Boy Scout. Contrary to reportage, neither of the shooters were members of the "Trenchcoat Mafia" or practicing members of the "Goth" scene.

Worse yet, the top bananas in law enforcement, education and mental health have conducted extensive investigations into the school shooting phenomena and the single item conspicuously missing from these reports is the use of psychiatric drugs. For example, in October 2000 the U.S. Secret Service, in collaboration with the U.S.

Recent history has shown it is not a matter of if, but rather when, another school shooting will occur. But in the wake of the revelation that Jeff Weise had been on Prozac when he went on his shooting spree at the Red Lake Indian Reservation, maybe it is appropriate to ponder the life-changing event of one boy who narrowly escaped becoming another adolescent with innocent blood on his hands. In April 2001, 16-year-old Cory Baadsgaard took a rifle to Wahluke High School in Washington state and held 23 classmates and a teacher hostage.

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When Elizabeth Bush, the 13 year old girl responsible for the school shooting in PA this past Spring, did an interview with Connie Chung on 20/20 she mentioned her recent loss of spiritual feelings and stated she could "no longer feel God." This was even though she had always been very religious and even though Mother Theresa was one of her main heros in life. Considering this to be yet another big clue to her use of SSRIs I asked her attorney once again to check her records for an SSRI. At that point he checked her records and found I was right. She had been on Paxil only a few months.

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