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"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." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"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." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"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." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"But the fact is teenagers taking psychotropic drugs have committed more than half of the last 12 school shootings. Ritalin, the most commonly prescribed psychiatric drug for children, is currently administrated to one in every 30 children between the ages of 5 and 18, but Ritalin is classified in the same group of drugs as opium, morphine and cocaine. Side effects of its use include: stunted growth, weight loss, maniac behavior, future drug dependence, heart palpitations, cardiac arrhythmia, anxiety, insomnia, violent behavior and even death.15* Violence is one result of this, anxiety another." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"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." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"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." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"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." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Nearly half of the last 17 school shootings involved adolescents who were known to be taking at least one psychiatric drug, and some more than one. This is troubling on a most basic level. Consider for a moment the possibility that nearly half of the school shooters had snorted cocaine prior to their murderous assaults. Does anyone believe that law enforcement would not focus on the illegal drug use? Of course this would be important information to at least note and, in fact, might be considered irresponsible had it not been included." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "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." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "Department of Education, released a report titled "An Interim Report on the Prevention of Targeted Violence in Schools," which was an intensive investigation into school shootings with the intent of providing some understanding of the attacks and hopefully preventing future events. The 60-page Interim Report discusses many aspects of the shooters' lives but, despite having such detailed information as the shooters' health records, failed to make mention of psychiatric drug use." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"On discovering the rash of teen school shootings in the United States, it wouldn't surprise me that traditional peoples would say this about American society: "It takes a crazy village to raise a crazy child." Today, decreasing numbers of children experience any kind of village or community, and many children lack a single nurturer and limit setter—a respected adult whom they believe has deep affection for them. This is a major reason why we must have a passion for transforming our society and culture." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"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." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"S Another very telling statistic that shows just how potentially dangerous these mind-altering drugs can really be involves the increased incidence of school shootings, which parallels the dramatic increase in children being placed on these dangerous drugs, (a 500% increase in 6 years)! S Not only that, but in more than one double-blind study, placebos were found to be more effective than Prozac?in resolving depression. s And according to an article titled "Kids on Drugs," by Dr. Lawrence H. Diller, M.D." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "Most importantly, it can lead to disastrous results, such as the recent rash of school shootings that destroy the lives of innocent victims and families, (often for no apparent reason). A prime example is Cho, the student at Virginia Tech who shot himself, along with 33 other students, for no apparent reason. The rage he expressed is, according to Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, an emotion some have expressed experiencing while on SSRI antidepressants. One example Dr. Tracy provided in her book Prozac: Panacea or Pandora?" - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "We know that the majority of the children involved in the school shootings, (an obvious sign of rage), were actually taking the very same serotonergic antidepressants that Dr. Coccaro recommended for those with IED. Dr. Coccaro's observation is actually typical of far too many psychiatrists' "totally unscientific" conclusions, such as the 374 mental conditions they somehow managed to conveniently "create"! As a result, psychiatrists can now quite easily identify some "abnormal condition" in nearly everyone, which of course would require prescribing some mind-altering drug in order to treat." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "In the following accounts of school shootings, you will discover that sometimes the particular antidepressant was labeled as "unknown". In those cases, someone obviously knew, although the company producing the drug suppresses that information if at all possible. The following information was obtained at http://www.ssristories.com/index.php." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"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." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"There are additional clinical reports in the literature that specifically link SSRIs to the kind of violence found in school shootings. In 1999 David Wilkinson, a British psychiatrist, evoked images of school shootings at the start of his clinical presentation of a case in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. He described how a previously nonviolent fifteen-year-old boy overturned display stands in a shop, smashed a fellow student in the mouth, and committed a robbery when he was taking Prozac." - Peter R. Breggin, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox (Get the book.) "Fred was not having "copycat" nightmares or fantasies. The school shootings had not yet happened. The study was published in 1991 and Fred's experience probably took place a year or two earlier—a long time before the outbreak of school shootings in the late 1990s. Fred's experience on Prozac actually provides a window into the potential development of a school shooter under the influence of Prozac or any other SSRI. We can easily see how he might have become a school shooter similar to Eric Harris." - Peter R. Breggin, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox (Get the book.)

"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?" - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"This was not a copycat nightmare since it took place before the rash of actual school shootings. Several years later, Eric Harris, one of the two school shooters at Columbine High School in Colorado, was taking Luvox when he committed the worst school shootings in American history.5 Antidepressants, like stimulants, commonly cause depression. While this may seem "paradoxical" and unexpected, it is reported time and again in studies for FDA-approval of the newer antidepressants." - Peter Breggin, The Ritalin Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You (Get the book.)

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