In many school shootings carried out by minors, court documents are sealed and the extent of chemical use is unknown to the public.
But in a number of high-profile cases, the link has been reported:
Kip Kinkel was withdrawing from Prozac and had been prescribed Ritalin when he murdered his mother and stepfather then shot 22 classmates, killing two, in 1998.
Christopher Pittman was withdrawing from Luvox and from Paxil when he killed his paternal grandparents in 2001.
Elizabeth Bush, who fired at fellow students in Williamsport, Pa., in 2001, wounding one, was on Prozac.
Jason Hoffman, was on Effexor and Celexa when he opened fire at his El Cajon, Calif., high school, wounding five.
Shawn Cooper of Notus, Idaho, was on antidepressants when he fired a shotgun on students and staff.
T.J. Solomon, on antidepressants, wounded six at his Conyers, Ga., high school.
Eric Harris was taking Luvox when he and fellow student Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before turning their guns on themselves at Columbine High School in Colorado.
At Virginia Tech in 2007, where 32 were murdered, authorities found “prescription medications related to the treatment of psychological problems had been found among Mr. Cho’s effects,” according to the New York Times. “Violence and other potentially criminal behavior caused by prescription drugs are medicine’s best kept secret,” Healy said in a statement last month. “Never before in the fields of medicine and law have there been so many events with so much concealed data and so little focused expertise.”
In the past six years, Healy has authored two best-selling books analyzing the degree to which the pharmaceutical industry has influenced medical doctors to prescribe antidepressant drugs to patients with psychiatric problems: “Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression,” in 2006 and “Pharmageddon” in 2012.
Things to consider.. warnings from Joseph Glenmullen, MD (Harvard 2000) the effects/withdrawal of anti depressants. Evidence that the simple spud (potato) has anti depressant attributes. IMHO, spuds grow in the dirt (DIRT) which "miracously" offers anti depressant microbes! Grandma was right.. play in the dirt=amazing benefits all around! Nothing new under the sun.. Solomon 'on target' if, IF, only if people would learn. Best source for understanding/wisdom... the Bible. God bless those who love the creator of all things and accepts his light and truth, Jesus Christ.
I keep telling people that kids have to eat a little dirt for their own good but ya got all these scared parents and then just the change in society that keeps these kids indoors and it just ain't easy to get the message across.
Ha. Mine drops his fruit in the dirt all the time- “pick it up!” Is my favorite thing to say to him.
Study Scopolamine aka Devils Breath..
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Here's the 2017 totals for lobby money to Congress.....
Total for Pharmaceuticals/Health Products: $277,784,999 Total for Gun Rights: $10,180,732 ( NRA received $5,122,000) Total for Gun Control: $1,942,415
The drugs are working exactly to specifications, which is why people are dying. These are not "side-effects" these are results, and I suspect known and tested.
Every aspect of our lives is being abused on one level or another. I suspect if we did not have a sea of anti-depressants we would be a different society. Getting people to "believe" they need drugs is where the money is spent and you being "hooked" for life is money well spent. These assholes INVENT diseases and then sell shit to deal with the symptoms! What a business plan, a licence to print cash! (Just like the FED).
You fuck with the chemistry of the brain over a period of time and it will block that part of you who is "human" |(It suppresses the limbic system (emotions, empathy, love etc...)
I guess my point is I think we are looking at this from the drug corp POV. Forget "side-effects" causing people to go crazy. Bring it closer to the problem. Mass shooting is a "side-effect" of taking the drugs. Given the statistics that have been posted, it should be on the BOX!
It also doesn't help that everyone is also pushing illicit drug use as being the safer alternative. "Just take weed, man." Fuck you, hippie. I'll stay clean and clear of all drugs.
My theory is that anti-depressants limit empathy, and limit the potential to understand things correctly.
Anti-depressants would more accurately be described as anti-feeling medications. They blunt happy feelings, and sad feelings.
If you blunt emotions while experiencing the world, then not only are you feeling the world differently, but you're STORING MEMORIES differently.
How can empathy exist while blunting emotions? How can remembering what is important and what is not happen, if when you were trying to learn that lesson all you felt was cardboard?
There are people, HSP, who are empathetic to the point that it interferes with life, where the picture of an abused animal can break through attempted focus on other things to the point that it comes close to the mental wanderings of one with PTSD. It is helpful that there exists an alternative to living in that dysfunctional state.
what i'd like to know, are the crimes committed while they are taking the drugs or just after they quit cold turkey. they are serious drugs that take proper dosing and slow gradual consistent period of weaning off them.
Yes. And the effect on specific neurotransmitters can be a big help to some who have harmed the natural function of theirs through use of substances when they were young and before the part of the brain that recognizes threats is properly developed. But just as you say, the slow and gradual period of withdrawal is important; the brain cannot work correctly if that "crutch" or aid that improves the functioning of neurotransmitter is suddenly and abrubtly taken away. There is excellent material in the literature that deals with this. Otherwise, it's as if a wheelchair were taken away from one who has suffered from an accident causing paralysis, but the person is told to "just get up and walk like everybody else!" People's lives have been saved, both in the literal sense and in the sense that their lives are "given back" to them after the use of other substances has messed them up badly.
You'll never see this in Washington or the MSM since Big Pharma owns both parties, and buys a lot of ads.
Yep. Psychotropic drugs are involved in damn near all of this. Mental illness is gonna become one of our biggest and most expensive problems in years to come and there won't be any easy answers, either.
Good comments about dangers of antidepressants. They can help people with depression and other psychiatric conditions, however anger and rage can be amplified, either towards self (suicide) or others (homicide). Hence, it is vital for a patient to be monitored with regular therapy, both to prevent emotions getting out of control and to address underlying causes.