60 School Shootings Linked To Psychiatric Drugs Over Past 20 Years
(Before It’s News)
While in the wake to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre most of the debate has centered around gun control, perhaps more of the debate should be focused on the mood altering drugs that people are being given as more than 60 school shootings among and more than 4,800 violent attacks have been linked to psychiatric drugs.
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The website SSRI Stories (http://ssristories.com/) tracks violence related to psychiatric drugs. The site has links to more than 60 school shooting incidents as well as other violent acts over the past 20 years.
This website is a collection of 4,800+ news stories with the full media article available, mainly criminal in nature, that have appeared in the media (newspapers, TV, scientific journals) or that were part of FDA testimony in either 1991, 2004 or 2006, in which antidepressants are mentioned.
This web site focuses on the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), of which Prozac (fluoxetine) was the first. Other SSRIs are Zoloft (sertraline), Paxil (paroxetine) (known in the UK as Seroxat), Celexa (citalopam), Lexapro (escitalopram), and Luvox (fluvoxamine). Other newer antidepressants included in this list are Remeron (mirtazapine), Anafranil (clomipramine) and the SNRIs Effexor (venlafaxine), Cymbalta (duloxetine) and Pristiq (desvenlafaxine) as well as the dopamine reuptake inhibitor antidepressant Wellbutrin (bupropion) (also marketed as Zyban).
Although SSRI Stories only features cases which have appeared in the media, starting March 2012 there will be a Website: http://www.rxisk.org/ which will allow personal stories to appear in a different Website from SSRI Stories. This is the work of Dr. David Healy http://davidhealy.org/welcome-to-data-based-medicine
By clicking on the links, you will be taken to the story. Here is a snip from the first link: Hours before he walked into a Northern Illinois University lecture hall and inexplicably started a shooting rampage that ended five lives and his own, Steve Kazmierczak called one of the people he was closest to and said what would be a final goodbye. http://ssristories.com/index.php?sort=info&p=
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Am I surprised?! Absolutely NOT!!! It's way to easy for parents to put their child on meds instead of dealing with them!!
ReplyDeletei've been saying this all along. it's the drugs stupid. of course gangs as well.
ReplyDeleteThis happens to young college age adults also. I personally know of a young man who was stablized and doing well, not great, but he was improved from his previous chronic condition. He still experinced mild depression. He was prescribed Abilify,it triggered mania, paranoia and aggression. He went off his meds, was non compliant, was homeless,a few other terrible things happened. His life has totally changed with very, very negative results.
ReplyDelete11:30, I partially blame the schools also. They got these companies now contracted to provide "in school therapy" who come up with these recommendations about a child's "mental" health.
ReplyDeleteQuite a few parents place too much trust in these supposed experts.
It's a big cycle of deceit starting with policiticans who want to brag about #1 schools and companies who make money off diagnosed children. Any number of these conditions children are diagnosed with allows them to be labeled learning disabled which in turn allows standardized testing scores to be modified accordingly.
What these so called expects say is abnormal behaviour anymore is ludicrous. A little boy who is hyper or wants to be the class clown is automatically labeled as having ADD. This is normal childhood behaviour.
It's also gotten to the point where everybody and their brother gets a teaching degree because it's fast and easy and most often a job is waiting. 3/4 of those teaching anymore have no business in the profession-sorry if anyone's offended but it's the truth.
In 1981 while attending public school kindergarten it was suggested that my nephew be but on Ritalin. Parents said no way and it was told to them to not expect the child to ever amount to much. It had already been decided that he would be enrolled in private school which at the time didn't offer kindergarten. He exceled and has been extremely successful even having the distinction of being the youngest person within the organization where he works in an upper management position. He to this day is hyper and wants to get things done and it reflects in his work and is why he advanced so quickly.
ReplyDeleteA few years later same thing with another brother's son. School recommends maybe child needs meds. Sister in law being a highly successful defense attorney in a big city talked to some renowned doctors and it was an unequivocal no among them. All of the doctors bascially said drugging children into submission is dangerous because the long term effects could prove to be worse. Is that what we are seeing now with these shooters?
Then just a few years ago a friend who happens to be in the drug industry and visits doctors on a regular basis was confronted by the school about her son and they too recommended he may need something "to keep him focused." J. talked to some of the doctors she trusted and they all recommened not drugs but maybe private school. Child has excelled because of a better learning environment. Private schools still are able to teach a more fun, hands on way instead of the mess public schools have become with all the focus on memorization in preparation for standardized testing.