Fact: Despite 22 international drug regulatory warnings on psychiatric drugs citing effects of mania, hostility, violence and even homicidal ideation, and dozens of high profile shootings/killings tied to psychiatric drug use, there has yet to be a federal investigation on the link between psychiatric drugs and acts of senseless violence.
Fact: At least 31 school shootings and/or school-related acts of violence have been committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs resulting in 162 wounded and 72 killed (in other school shootings, information about their drug use was never made public—neither confirming or refuting if they were under the influence of prescribed drugs).
Fact: Between 2004 and 2011, there have been over 11,000 reports to the U.S. FDA’s MedWatch system of psychiatric drug side effects related to violence. These include 300 cases of homicide, nearly 3,000 cases of mania and over 7,000 cases of aggression. Note: By the FDA’s own admission, only 1-10% of side effects are ever reported to the FDA, so the actual number of side effects occurring are most certainly higher.
Fact: It took months for the release of information showing that police had found psychiatric drugs in the apartment of Aurora Colorado movie theater shooter, James Holmes—including the anti-anxiety drug clonazepam and the antidepressant sertraline, the generic version of the antidepressant Zoloft.
Colorado shooter James Holmes was under the care of psychiatrist Lynne Fenton prior to the shootings. Police found antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs in Holmes apartment.
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Of the 31 people who committed acts of violence that were documented to be under the influence of psychiatric drugs, ten were seeing either a psychiatrist or psychologist. See the list of school shootings and/or school-related acts of violence by those on psychiatric drugs here.
School-related acts of violence aren’t the only cases commonly found to be under the influence of psychiatric drugs. There are 12 other recent acts of senseless violence committed by individuals taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs resulting in an additional 46 dead and 23 wounded.
A bill introduced in New York in 2000 proposed police investigate psychiatric drug in all cases of violent crimes and suicides. This is a bill that must be reintroduced and passed on state and federal levels. Click image to read the bill
Despite 22 international drug regulatory warnings on psychiatric drugs citing effects of mania, hostility, violence and even homicidal ideation, and dozens of high profile shootings/killings tied to psychiatric drug use, there has yet to be a federal investigation on the link between psychiatric drugs and acts of senseless violence.
The correlation between psychiatric drugs and acts of violence and homicide is well documented – both by international drug regulatory warnings and studies, as well as by hundreds of cases where high profile acts of violence/mass murder were committed by individuals under the influence of psychiatric drugs.
Unfortunately that bill stalled out in the finance committee. By reviewing the international drug regulatory warnings, studies, and adverse reaction reports submitted to the US FDA below, it is evident that the reintroduction of the New York bill is needed on a federal level in order to determine just how many crimes and acts of violence are being committed by individuals under the influence of drugs documented to induce violence, mania, psychosis, aggression, hostility and homicide.
As the world’s leading mental health watchdog, CCHR has for decades investigated hundreds of acts of senseless violence, working alongside investigative reporters, law enforcement, as well as legislative hearings, such as those held in Colorado following the 1999 Columbine massacre (ringleader Eric Harris was found to be under the influence of the antidepressant Luvox, Dylan Klebold’s autopsy reports were never unsealed).
And while there is never one simple explanation for what drives a human being to commit such unspeakable acts, all too often one common denominator has surfaced in hundreds of cases—prescribed psychiatric drugs which are documented to cause mania, psychosis, violence, suicide and in some cases, homicidal ideation. It is an injustice that the general public are not being informed about the well documented links between psychiatric drugs and violence, and so once again we present the facts:
There have been 22 international drug regulatory warnings issued on psychiatric drugs causing violence, mania, hostility, aggression, psychosis, and other violent type reactions. These warnings have been issued in the United States, European Union, Japan, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.
Click image to read MANIA—The shocking link between psychiatric drugs, suicide, violence and mass murder
In determining what would prompt a person to commit such brutal and senseless crimes, the press must ask the right questions, including: What, if any, prescribed psychotropic drugs the perpetrator may have been on (or in withdrawal from).
Read the international drug regulatory warnings issued on psychiatric drugs causing violence, mania, hostility, aggression, psychosis, and other violent type reactions.
See the recent study from PLoS One here on psychiatric drugs being linked to violence.
Watch this short interview with Michael Moore, author, director and producer of Bowling for Columbine, where he calls for a federal investigation into the link between prescribed drugs and mass shootings such as the 1999 Columbine massacre.
At least 31 school shootings and/or school-related acts of violence were committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs. It is important to note the following lists cases where the information about the shooters psychiatric drug use was made public.
It took months for the release of information showing that police had found psychiatric drugs in the apartment of Aurora Colorado movie theater shooter, James Holmes—including the anti-anxiety drug clonazepam and the antidepressant sertraline, the generic version of the antidepressant Zoloft.
Note that all these mass shootings didn’t just occur in the United States.
Of these 31, ten were seeing either a psychiatrist (8 of them) or psychologist (2 of them). It is not known whether or not the others were seeing a psychiatrist, as it has not been published.
- St. Louis, Missouri – January 15, 2013: 34-year-old Sean Johnson walked onto the Stevens Institute of Business & Arts campus and shot the school’s financial aid director once in the chest, then shot himself in the torso. Johnson had been taking prescribed drugs for an undisclosed mental illness.
- Snohomish County, Washington – October 24, 2011: A 15-year-old girl went to Snohomish High School where police alleged that she stabbed a girl as many as 25 times just before the start of school, and then stabbed another girl who tried to help her injured friend. Prior to the attack the girl had been taking “medication” and seeing a psychiatrist. Court documents said the girl was being treated for depression.
- Planoise, France – December 13, 2010: A 17-year-old youth held twenty pre-school children and their teacher hostage for hours at Charles Fourier preschool. The teen was reported to be on “medication for depression”. He took a classroom hostage with two swords. Eventually, all the children and the teacher were released safely.
- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina – September 21, 2011: 14-year-old Christian Helms had two pipe bombs in his backpack, when he shot and wounded Socastee High School’s “resource” (police) officer. However the officer was able to stop the student before he could do anything further. Helms had been taking drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and depression.
- Huntsville, Alabama – February 5, 2010: 15-year-old Hammad Memon shot and killed another Discover Middle School student Todd Brown. Memon had a history for being treated for ADHD and depression. He was taking the antidepressant Zoloft and “other drugs for the conditions.” He had been seeing a psychiatrist and psychologist.
- Kauhajoki, Finland – September 23, 2008: 22-year-old culinary student Matti Saari shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine. He was also seeing a psychologist.
- Fresno, California – April 24, 2008: 17-year-old Jesus “Jesse” Carrizales attacked the Fresno high school’s officer, hitting him in the head with a baseball bat. After knocking the officer down, the officer shot Carrizales in self-defense, killing him. Carrizales had been prescribed Lexapro and Geodon, and his autopsy showed that he had a high dose of the antidepressant Lexapro in his blood that could have caused him to be paranoid, according to the coroner.
- Dekalb, Illinois – February 14, 2008: 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amount of Xanax in his system. He had been seeing a psychiatrist.
- Jokela, Finland – November 7, 2007: 18-year-old Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School in southern Finland, then committed suicide.
- Texas – November 7, 2007: 17-year-old Felicia McMillan returned to her former Robert E. Lee High School campus and stabbed a male student and wounded the principle with a knife. McMillan had been on drugs for depression, and had just taken them the night before the incident.
- Cleveland, Ohio – October 10, 2007: 14-year-old Asa Coon stormed through his school with a gun in each hand, shooting and wounding four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon had been placed on the antidepressant Trazodone.
- Sudbury, Massachusetts – January 19, 2007: 16-year-old John Odgren stabbed another student with a large kitchen knife in a boy’s bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. In court his father testified that Odgren was prescribed the drug Ritalin.
- North Vernon, Indiana – December 4, 2006: 16-year-old Travis Roberson stabbed another Jennings County High School student in the neck, nearly severing an artery. Roberson was in withdrawal from Wellbutrin, which he had stopped taking days before the attack.
- Hillsborough, North Carolina – August 30, 2006: 19-year-old Alvaro Rafael Castillo shot and killed his father, then drove to Orange High School where he opened fire. Two students were injured in the shooting, which ended when school personnel tackled him. His mother said he was on drugs for depression.
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina – April 2006: 17-year-old William Barrett Foster took a shotgun to school and took a teacher and a fellow student hostage at East Chapel Hill High School. After being talked out of shooting the hostages, Foster fired two shots through a classroom window before fleeing the school on foot. Foster’s father testified that his son had stopped taking his antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs without telling him.
- Red Lake, Minnesota – March 21, 2005: 16-year-old Jeff Weise, on Prozac, shot and killed his grandparents, then went to his school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation where he shot dead 5 students, a security guard, and a teacher, and wounded 7 before killing himself.
- Greenbush, New York – February 2004: 16-year-old Jon Romano strolled into his high school in east Greenbush and opened fire with a shotgun. Special education teacher Michael Bennett was hit in the leg. Romano had been taking “medication for depression”. He had previously seen a psychiatrist.
- Red Lion, Pennsylvania – February 2, 2001: 56-year-old William Michael Stankewicz entered North Hopewell-Winterstown Elementary School with a machete, leaving three adults and 11 children injured. Stankewicz was taking four different drugs for depression and anxiety weeks before the attacks.
- Ikeda, Japan – June 8, 2001: 37-year-old Mamoru Takuma, wielding a 6-inch knife, slipped into an elementary school and stabbed eight first- and second-graders to death while wounding at least 15 other pupils and teachers. He then turned the knife on himself but suffered only superficial wounds. He later told interrogators that before the attack he had taken 10 times his normal dose of antidepressants.
- Wahluke, Washington – April 10, 2001: Sixteen-year-old Cory Baadsgaard took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates and a teacher hostage. He had been taking the antidepressant Effexor.
- El Cajon, California – March 22, 2001: 18-year-old Jason Hoffman, on the antidepressants Celexa and Effexor, opened fire on his classmates, wounding three students and two teachers at Granite Hills High School. He had been seeing a psychiatrist before the shooting.
- Williamsport, Pennsylvania – March 7, 2001: 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was taking the antidepressant Prozac when she shot at fellow students, wounding one.
- Oxnard, California – January 2001: 17-year-old Richard Lopez went to Hueneme High School with a gun and shot twice at a car in the school’s parking lot before taking a female student hostage. Lopez was eventually killed by a SWAT officer. He had been prescribed Prozac, Paxil and “drugs that helped him go to sleep.”
- Conyers, Georgia – May 20, 1999: 15-year-old T.J. Solomon was being treated with the stimulant Ritalin when he opened fire on and wounded six of his classmates.
- Columbine, Colorado – April 20, 1999: 18-year-old Eric Harris and his accomplice, Dylan Klebold, killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 26 others before killing themselves. Harris was on the antidepressant Luvox. Klebold’s medical records remain sealed. Both shooters had been in anger-management classes and had undergone counseling. Harris had been seeing a psychiatrist before the shooting.
- Notus, Idaho – April 16, 1999: 15-year-old Shawn Cooper fired two shotgun rounds in his school, narrowly missing students. He was taking a prescribed antidepressant and Ritalin.
- Springfield, Oregon – May 21, 1998: 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his parents and then proceeded to school where he opened fire on students in the cafeteria, killing two and wounding 25. Kinkel had been taking the antidepressant Prozac. Kinkel had been attending “anger control classes” and was under the care of a psychologist.
- Blackville, South Carolina – October 12, 1995: 15-year-old Toby R. Sincino slipped into the Blackville-Hilda High School’s rear entrance, where he shot two Blackville-Hilda High School teachers, killing one. Then Toby killed himself moments later. His aunt, Carolyn McCreary, said he had been undergoing counseling with the Department of Mental Health and was taking Zoloft for emotional problems.
- Chelsea, Michigan – December 17, 1993: 39-year-old chemistry teacher Stephen Leith, facing a disciplinary matter at Chelsea High School, shot Superintendent Joseph Piasecki to death, shot Principal Ron Mead in the leg, and slightly wounded journalism teacher Phil Jones. Leith was taking Prozac and had been seeing a psychiatrist.
- Houston, Texas – September 18, 1992: 44-year-old Calvin Charles Bell, reportedly upset about his second-grader’s progress report, appeared in the principal’s office of Piney Point Elementary School. Bell fired a gun in the school, and eventually wounded two officers before surrendering. Relatives told police on Friday that Bell was an unemployed Vietnam veteran and had been taking anti-depressants.
- Winnetka, Illinois – 20 May 1988: 30-year-old Laurie Wasserman Dann walked into a second grade classroom at Hubbard Woods School in Winnetka, Illinois carrying three pistols and began shooting children, killing an eight-year-old boy, and wounding five others before fleeing. She entered a nearby house where she shot and wounded a 20-year-old man before killing herself. Dann had been seeing a psychiatrist and subsequent blood tests revealed that at the time of the killings, she was taking the antidepressant Anafranil.
Note: Psychiatric Drugs Can Also Cause Severe Withdrawal Symptoms—Violent and Suicidal Thoughts – Watch This 2 Minute Video
12 additional recent murders and murder-suicides, resulting in 46 dead and 23 wounded:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – March 8, 2012: 30-year-old John Shick, former patient of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and former student at nearby Duquesne University, shot and killed one and injured six inside UPMC’s Western Psychiatrist Institute. Nine antidepressants were identified among the drugs police found in Shick’s apartment.
- Seal Beach, California – October 12, 2011: Scott DeKraai, a harbor tugboat worker, entered the hair salon where his ex-wife worked, killing her and seven others and injuring one. At DeKraai’s initial hearing, his attorney indicated to the judge that DeKraai was prescribed the antidepressant Trazodone and the “mood stabilizer” Topamax.
- Lakeland, Florida – May 3, 2009: Toxicology test results showed that 34-year-old Troy Bellar was on Tegretol, a drug prescribed for “bi-polar disorder,” when he shot and killed his wife and two of his three children in their home before killing himself.
- Granberry Crossing, Alabama – April 26, 2009: 53-year-old Fred B. Davis shot and killed a police officer and wounded a sheriff’s deputy who had responded to a call that Davis had threatened a neighbor with a gun. Prescription drug bottles found at the scene showed that Davis was prescribed the antipsychotic drug Geodon.
- Middletown, Maryland – April 17, 2009: Christopher Wood shot and killed his wife, three small children and himself inside their home. Toxicology test results verified that Wood had been taking the antidepressants Cymbalta and Paxil and the anti-anxiety drugs BuSpar and Xanax.
- Concord, California – January 11, 2009: Jason Montes, 33, shot and killed his wife and then himself at home. Montes had earlier begun taking the antidepressant Prozac for depression related to his impending divorce and a recent bankruptcy.
- Little Rock, Arkansas – August 14, 2008: Less than 48 hours after Timothy Johnson shot and killed Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney, the Little Rock Police declared they were investigating shooter’s use of the antidepressant Effexor, which was found in Johnson’s house. A Little Rock city police report later stated that Johnson “was on an antidepressant and that the drug may have played a part in his ‘irrational and violent behavior.’”
- Omaha, Nebraska – December 5, 2007: 19-year-old Robert Hawkins killed eight people and wounded five before committing suicide in an Omaha mall. Autopsy results confirmed he was under the influence of the “anti-anxiety” drug Valium.
- North Meridian, Florida – July 8, 2003: Doug Williams killed five and wounded nine of his fellow Lockheed Martin employees before killing himself. Williams was reportedly taking two antidepressants, Zoloft and Celexa, for depression after a failed marriage.
- Wakefield, Massachusetts – December 26, 2000: 42-year-old computer technician Michael McDermott had been taking three antidepressants when he hunted down employees in the accounting and human resources offices where he worked, killing seven.
- Buffalo, New York – May 1, 1998: 37-year-old Juan Roman, an Erie County sheriff’s deputy, pursued his estranged wife into their children’s elementary school and shot her dead, and a school aide was hit in the elbow. Roman was taking antidepressants and seeing a psychiatrist.
- St. Petersburg, FL – May 25, 1992: 30-year-old David Doyle Rittenhouse shot and killed a man that went on a date with his wife. Rittenhouse said he was taking a drug somewhat similar to the controversial drug Prozac, and that the drug impeded his perception abilities and he thought the man had raped his wife, though he said “He knows it didn’t happen that way – but he said that is what was in his mind.”
As far back as 1991, CCHR, along with numerous experts brought evidence before the US FDA that antidepressants were causing suicide and violence. The heavily Pharma-funded FDA panel ignored the evidence provided, and it would take 14 years, and a great deal of public pressure, for the FDA to finally issue it’s strongest warning, the black box, on antidepressants inducing suicidal ideation. 21 years later, the FDA has yet to issue a black box warning on antidepressants and other classes of psychiatric drugs documented by international regulatory agencies and studies to cause violence. This is not in the public’s interest, who deserve to be warned, it’s in Big Phama’s interest, upon whose funding the FDA heavily relies on.
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Do you haVe seminars to instruct parents about this? If so who is the right person to contact?
Okay my vent! I’m sick of people saying that guns need to be banned! 1. No they don’t, they need tougher laws on being able to own them and tougher punishment. 2. GUNS DONT KILL PEOPLE, it’s the fucking idiots that have mental, emotional and anger problems! That’s like saying oh the spoon made me fat! No it didn’t you stuffed your face just like the gunner pulled the trigger, the spoon and gun didn’t do it them selfs! There are people out there that are responsible with their guns me being one! I don’t wanna duckling give mine up unless they pay me back! Better yet anyone that wants guns taken away from people that own them legally and are responsible, they need to pay us for them because that’s a lot of money to just hand over and not see a dime of it! Melissa \m/
“I’m sick of people saying that guns need to be banned!” We’re sick of seeing children get massacred by idiots with guns. “GUNS DONT KILL PEOPLE” Neither do nuclear bombs. Do you want to make sure that every homicidal maniac owns one?
Yeah except who follows the law when they decide to kill someone thats why we need to ban guns. Its a killing machine why would you want something like that in your house and around your family. Yhere are other altrrnatives to hunting its not an issue.
“Antidepressants and School Shootings, Suicide, Addiction.” This disturbing compilation of video clips from news media demonstrate the dangers to our society of SSRIs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XHNJyti1gE
Violence is only a symptom of the underlying problem, and many people don’t realize that most of the “shooters” that have made headlines in recent years were found to be on psychotropic medications that have side effects such as “homicidal ideation, suicidal thoughts or actions, violent and aggressive behavior,” etc. People are prescribed these drugs by doctors, who are giving them out like M&M’s at the behest of powerful pharmaceutical companies. The users, many unstable to begin with, become human time bombs, bound to explode. This “system,” whether intentional or not, works in perfect sync with a political agenda that has one purpose: to disarm the people. If viewed through this lens, the participants who are making the drugs, prescribing the drugs, and taking the drugs, can be compared to a bomb-maker, a bomber, and a bomb. Could this be viewed as a form of terrorism? Technically, the answer would have to be “no.” Terrorism is defined as “the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.” The pharmaceutical companies and doctors are abiding by the law. The “shooter” is also, by taking drugs that are perfectly legal (not, of course, by committing violent acts.) This brings us to a more sinister scenario: that of the unwitting patsy being used as a pawn in a very sophisticated game of strategy. CIA programs of previous eras, such as MK ULTRA, extensively studied mind control techniques, and often experimented with a vast array of drugs, including LSD. The drugs of today are far more effective, unpredictable (or predictable, depending on if we are predicting that they will help the patient, or cause him/her to suffer from a long list of horrible side effects), and terrifying. They are also legal. Think about it this way: guns have been around for centuries. Psychotropic drugs have only in recent years been introduced into the population of the United States. Is there a direct correlation between the increasing number of extremely violent, random incidents, such as that which just occurred in Connecticut, and the increased use of psychotropic drugs among Americans? It could be that there is.
New York City’s strict gun laws and the number of violent crimes that involve guns every year should be proof that strict gun laws to not stop gun violence from occurring.
(go ahead and keep calling me names for posting about this stuff. You’re definitely convincing me that you need more guns.)
NO. Myself and almost everyone I know owns guns. Lots of them. And there’s nothing you or anybody else is going to do about it. Nothing.
Give me a break. Did you even read this article?
He did do something. He cried.
Yes. Did you read the article?
So shocking that yet more lives have to be lost senselessly before
a federal investigation into the relationship between these shootings and psychiatric drugs takes place !
I am sick and tired of getting antisocials in acute mental health. These are simply people who choose not to live by the rules of society. Psychiatry comes along and wants to make them feel better so they give them an illness as a diagnosis and they know full well they will never see the inside of a gaol cell! Increasingly I see young men come in who drink, stay up all night playing video games and then dictate to parents what they will do. Then they come in for a psych assessment and there is nothing wrong a good strap by dad won’t fix! We are now reaping the results of not spanking children. You know, I am super at detecting malingerers, I think this should be on the minds of all clinicians – is there secondary gain to be had by touching base with a service or provider etc. May I give another example of a young adult who stalked a colleague. They fell in ‘love’ with someone of the same sex who was not a homosexual. This person admitted to me they needed a mental illness to avoid gaol because they terrorised this person by setting up a bogus FB page and ‘courting’ this person.! I read the thousands of text messages sent and they are just sick and would scare me to no end! This person was given a mental illness that clearly wasn’t there and avoided gaol. This will happen again and hopefully they don’t graduate to killing but hey if they do, they have a history of mental illness and they’re not responsible. That my friends is how the system works worldwide. It must STOP! This practice helps encourage this behaviour. That and the DSM which is to be exclusive feels the need to give a diagnosis to everything, including normal human behaviour. For example rapists will now have a disorder and it will no longer be a crime! Because I don’t believe in sex outside marriage, I am diagnosed as ‘absexual’. The DSM V needs to be STOPPED from publication and diagnosis such as Personality Disorder (how a person is made) (includes anti socials, narcissists, psychopaths etc) need to be removed. Please I implore you to google DSM V petition and sign it.
The reason we have so much ‘mental illness’ is because
The DSM which should be exclusive is inclusive! Wait till version
V comes out, rapists now have a disorder meaning no gaol!!
We also need to demand the DSM be heavily
Edited and psychopathy and personality disorders
removed as medication not appropriate. Only fix CBT/DBT.
These people need to start taking responsibility and
Doing time if need be. As a clinician I am sick to
Death of this!! Psychiatry has become reckless and
has developed a God complex!
You wanna have the gun control debate, fine… let’s hear it. You aren’t going to convince me less guns are the solution… there has never been a nut-job run amok at a gun show. Ever.
Look at the CAUSE not the RESULT.
-X- http://www.cchrint.org/2012/07/20/the-aurora-colorado-tragedy-another-senseless-shooting-another-psychotropic-drug/
Mr Moore, thank you, for all the information you provide for those of us who want the truth. Without it our democracy is a mere waste of time and money.
My experience on this has led me to believe the increase in healthcare costs is directly related to psychiatry. People are referred for psych & meds; when the cost of the treatment actually needed is too costly. In my case I was refused a neurologist in lieu of psych meds. After suffering Dr induced severe psycotropic withdrawl and now finally having some of my good mind return, I am certain that an attempt to convert me to a revenue producing CASH COW as a psych patient has been averted. Shameful that no one takes responsibility for people being harmed every day, preventable harm.
I always got suicidial thoughts and became extremely anxious on antipsychotics and antidepressives.
Now they know I did not have any mental illness before I became psychiatric patient in 1983 when I was 17 years old. I became psychiatric patient because of my family. We were allies and it was during the Cold War….
Today i’m physically disabled, I suffer from dystonia, tardive dyskinesia, sensori motoric polyneuropatia, hearth diseases, and my body is in lots of pain
And I suffer from post traumatic stress because of violence and rape in psychiatric intensive care units
In Denmark psychiatric patients can’t get the right treatment for their physically diseases.
And they can’t get of psychiatric diagnosis when they never have been mentally ill….
I’m working politically to change this
I would like to know which cases of mass murder of this sort have nothing to do with psychotropic drugs or psychiatrists. I have a hard time believing there is such a case.
There may be a case where the individual was not filled with the drug at the time of the incident, but what about a history of taking psychotropic drugs or being under a psychiatrist’s care.
Is there really such an mass killing incident where there was absolutely no history of psychotropic drug or psychiatric connection?
I don’t think even cocaine produces such a reaction.
Mr. Michael Moore has my full admiration for his courage in exposing in broad daylight the truth.
Why is there NO investigation by our government authorities?
Are they making big bucks from keeping silent? Are they being silenced by those who have a vested interest in creating turmoil and misery in our society?
Nicole
I truly hope you keep this article updated in some clear way.
I’ve read that Holmes was (is?) (had been?) taking Xanax (same as alprazolam and Niravam). IF that’s true, and when documented, that fact deserves wide public distribution.
As the types of incidents that you connect to Xanax show, it’s another profitable pill that “stirs around” the brain’s complex biochemicals with random and unspeakable results.
And, all the more sadly, all with no responsibility, reversals, or remorse by the drug company that makes it.
I saw a newsman report that Holmes had (allegedly) bought 6,000 rounds of ammunition via the Web.
Yet no media is publicly asking about what drugs (apparently) drove this once sterling young man to this depth of hate and psychosis.
Good points. Pharmaceutical companies are reaping huge profits, and nobody seems to be aware of the massive damage their products are doing to individuals and society. Large pharmacies are going up in record numbersr; there seems to be one on every other corner, and people don’t even seem to notice.
This looks more like a programmed unit than a Psychiatric drug user gone nuts . He had been connected to facilities that in fact produce programmed units . The result (bringing the gun control issue back onto the screen and orienting the collective psyche into supporting gun control) was the intent in scripting the current incident . The actor in this bit of group programming (live /real theater) was simply programmed to play his part . The result and the cause are one and the same . The axiom with which to evaluate is,” In the presence of controlled action , the intention and the effect are the same “. Thus when you observe the effect, consider that to be the intention, discover who holds that intention and determine the absence or presence of control. This is the path to the identification of source .
If I were the mother of that young man who was murdered in the movie theatre on his birthday or I was the grandmother of that young child whose parents had to shield him from gunfire under their seats, I would want this article AS IS and with no editing to be put in the Aurora Sentinel, The Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New York Times, The Washington Post and every major US paper (to begin with).
The TRUTH OF WHAT IS BEHIND THESE HOMICIDAL RAGES MUST BE KNOWN BY THE GENERAL POPULACE.
Songbird
The key is finding out why we have so much mental heatlh issues in our society… We lead the world in this area. Why???
The other consideration is registering guns to individuals who are known to have a mental health disorder. More thorough background checks should be performed and restrictions be placed on individuals with known disorders being able to obtain weapons.
The media has already reported that the mother of James Holmes is a psychiatric nurse. Holmes reportedly took the powerful pain reliever Vicodin before going on his shooting spree in order to stay calm while murdering innocent victims. He had recently been a graduate student studying Neuroscience which involves the study of mental disorders and how to treat them with drugs. The current treatment methods for the various mental disorders involve antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers in almost all cases. That Holmes knew enough “Neuroscience” to self-medicate with Vicodin just to stay calm while carrying out the shooting really begs the question, “What psychiatric drugs was he on or had he been on?” It was also reported that two years ago Holmes was an honor student but that something had changed to where his grades started slipping, he started buying guns and had studied up on how to make bombs and home-made explosives since his apartment has been found to be rigged with trip wires connected to explosive devices. When the police questioned his mother about her son James Holmes being involved in this massacre, she reportedly replied, “You have the right person.” I have to ask, what does she know about her son that she immediately knows he was the one who carried out this massacre. Most mothers would immediately deny that their child could be involved in something like this. If I were investigating this, I would have to find out if the mother of James Holmes knows if he was taking psychiatric drugs and if she played a role in him getting on them. What mother does not offer advice to a child that is going through a crisis as James Holmes clearly was over the last two years. And if your mother is a psychiatric nurse, she is not going to advise you to take vitamins. In my experience, many people who have family members involved in mental health end up taking psychiatric drugs as the solution to their problems. And where did he get the Vicodin? There is already a psychiatric connection and a drug connection reported in this tragic Aurora, Colorado theatre massacre. I sure hope the media will not be so blinded by people trying to blame the whole thing on guns that they realize that long before any gun got used in this case, James Holmes was in a state of mind to plan a very detailed massacre that happened to use guns as the means to carry it out. How does a former honor student and soccer player get transformed into a cold, calculated killer? The most common cause in past similar mass murders like Columbine and Red Lake is that the killers were on psychiatric drugs.
I hear what you are saying… except one VITAL fact is wrongly being perpetuated. Holmes’ mother’s statement “You have the right person” was in response to the media asking if she were Holmes’ mother! NOT that the police had the right person in custody!!
i know with 100% certainty that SSRI drugs cause violent thoughts.
i tried to get off prozac and had incredibly disturbing violent thoughts of killing my mother as well as hurting myself or others.
the thoughts were always of using knives ,screwdrivers or scissors.
i had an incredible fear that i would use them to hurt someone
these thoughts were uncontrollable and extremely distress.
i have never hurt anybody.i dont have a history of violence and do not have a criminal record.
i dont drink or take any drugs besides prozac.
the only drug i was taking and trying to get off was prozac.
it was definately without a shadow of a doubt the only reason i had these thoughts.
psychiatry is causing the death of thousands,maybe tens of thousands of innocent people with having to pay for their crimes.
it is the hidden genocide.
Wow. Thanks for sharing. Most people don’t realize the disturbing effects these drugs really have on people. The attitude is: “if a doctor prescribes it, it must be safe.”
While we all grieve at this tragic and senseless loss, we must not now attack organizations that have nothing to do with senseless violence, but somehow get blamed for “society’s problems.” This type of violence was rarely ever heard of before the massive introduction of psychotropic drugs. Guns have been in this country for hundreds of years. These mind-altering drugs are relatively new and this has to be exposed as the actual source of the rapid escalation of this type of grim violence.
I couldn’t have said it better. It’s not that people have more access to guns, it’s that there are more people who are prescribed this garbage.