The Epoch Times
By Martha Rosenberg
December 27, 2012
Stuffed animals and flowers are seen at a makeshift memorial near the entrance to the grounds of Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 18, 2012 in Newtown, CT, where a gunman killed 20 students and 6 adults four days prior. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
It is no secret that prescription drugs, notably antidepressants, can make psychiatric patients worse, not better and even precipitate violence. SSRI antidepressants like Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil are so linked to violence, they were given the FDA’s highest warning in 2004, a black box, for the suicidal risks they can create in young adults.
According to published reports, the gunmen involved in the Columbine High School, Red Lake reservation, Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech mass shootings were under the influence of psychiatric drugs or withdrawing from such drugs. At least 5,000 other news stories, including school shootings, link psychiatric drugs to violent crime on the web site SSRI Stories.
Three men in their 70′s and 80′s attack their wives with hammers while under the influence of psychiatric drugs say news reports on the site. A 54-year-old respiratory patient with a breathing tube and an oxygen tank and no previous criminal record holds up a bank. An enraged man in Australia chases his mailman and threats to cut his throat . . . for bringing him junk mail. A 58-year-old Amarillo man with no criminal history tries to abduct three people and an Oklahoma woman accepts a cup of tea from an elderly nurse she’s just met–and kills her.
“The kind of energy, rage and insanity seen in a lot of crimes today was not seen before SSRIs appeared,” said Rosie Meysenburg, who co-founded SSRI Stories, in an interview shortly before her death this year.
Meysenburg is not the only one to observe the bizarre, unpredictable and inexplicable violence that has surfaced since the psychiatric drug craze began 25 years ago with Prozac. Did elderly people commit crimes so frequently in the past? Did people so frequently kill their families?
During a few weeks in 2009, a Middletown, MD man was accused of killing his wife and three children, a Milton, MA man was accused of killing his two sisters at a birthday party, a Santa Clara man was accused of killing his two children and three other relatives, a Orting, WA man was accused of killing his five children, a Chicago man was accused of killing his girlfriend’s sister, father and grandfather and an Alabama man was accused of killing his mother and grandparents. What?
And there’s another indication that the high rates of suicide and violence are linked to prescription drugs–the high suicide rate in the military where antidepressants are widely given. In just one month, July of 2011, there were 32 suspected suicides, 21 among active duty troops and 10 among reservists. In one report, 36 percent of the troops who killed themselves had never even been deployed. That means combat stress and PTSD were not factors in the self-injurious behavior.
You don’t have to be a cynic to ask if the reason so many troops are killing themselves is, at least partially, because they are taking drugs that make them kill themselves. Nor is it overly cynical to ask if the 20 million Americans in the general population taking such drugs are behind the frequent mass shootings and family killings.
Martha Rosenberg is the author of the acclaimed expose, “Born With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health” (Prometheus Books, 2012).
Read the story here: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/health/prescription-drugs-are-often-behind-mass-shootings-327408.html
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They make money off the drugs, it is a quick and easy fix, though it ruins the person if they are taken too long. They took my sister away and when we got her back she was never the same. They took four years of her vital developmental childhood years from 13 1/2 to almost 18. Forcibly injecting her if she didn’t take her medication. They chemically lobotomized her. They stole her life away and mine as well when they took her away. The girl that left never came back. Why are those least influenced by morality given control over the most fragile and abused? Why are those with dead hearts given control over the brokenhearted, allowed to chemically lobotomize them when what they need is therapy, empathy, someone to feel as they feel. Only warmth, can heal a broken heart. They do not want to help them. They have power, yet they do not use it responsibly, prescribing brain altering medications indiscriminately. These emotional issues fester into psychological disorders when not treated correctly. Who mourns my sister. Her life was stolen. Forced to take medication that at the time was not FDA approved for children and teenagers though it was soon after. Now they have done studies that those drugs cause birth defects, deforming the developing brain of children inside the womb. How could a college educated psychologist not know what antidepressants could potentially do to the developing brain? OUR BRAIN NEVER STOPS GROWING GENIUSES. On December 21 2008 my sister hanged herself. Your complacency with perversion did this to her. BLAME YOURSELVES
You might find this interesting. This is our (CCHR’s) video footage from the 1991 FDA hearings on antidepressants causing violence & suicide. It took the FDA 14 YEARS after this hearing to finally admit antidepressants cause suicide and issue a black box warning. To this day, they have still not issued black box warnings on antidepressants (or any psychiatric drug) causing violence/homicide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxJomeak4V4