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Title: Psychiatric Meds: Prescription for Murder?
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URL Source: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnew ... /14655-prescription-for-murder
Published: Mar 8, 2013
Author: Rebecca Terrell
Post Date: 2013-03-08 09:15:59 by Ada
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In a frenzied cry for gun-control, the media is rife with details about the firearms Adam Lanza used to kill 20 children and six adults before turning a handgun on himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. But information about Lanza’s medical history is scarce, feeding speculation that he may fit the profile of school shooters under the influence of psychotherapeutic medication. “In virtually every mass school shooting during the past 15 years, the shooter has been on or in withdrawal from psychiatric drugs,” observed Lawrence Hunter of the Social Security Institute. “Yet, federal and state governments continue to ignore the connection between psychiatric drugs and murderous violence, preferring instead to exploit these tragedies in an oppressive and unconstitutional power grab to snatch guns away from innocent, law-abiding people who are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution the right to own and bear arms to deter government tyranny and to use firearms in self defense against any miscreant who would do them harm.” There is a striking connection between school shootings and psychotherapeutic drugs, also known as psychotropics. Consider these examples: • Toby Sincino, a 15-year-old who shot two teachers and himself in 1995 at his South Carolina school, was taking the antidepressant Zoloft. • Kip Kinkel, an Oregon teen who murdered his parents and proceeded on a shooting rampage at his high school in 1998, killed two and wounded 25 while in Prozac withdrawal. • Shawn Cooper fired two shotgun rounds in 1999 at his Idaho high school while on an antidepressant. • T.J. Solomon, Jr. was 15 years old when he shot six classmates in Atlanta in 1999. He was taking Ritalin and was also being treated for depression. • Eric Harris was one of the assailants at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. His autopsy revealed a therapeutic level of the antidepressant Luvox in his system. • Jason Hoffman wounded five people with a shotgun at his California high school in 2001 while on two antidepressant medications, Celexa and Effexor. • Jeffrey Weise, a student at Red Lake High School in Minnesota, killed 10 and wounded seven in 2005 while on Prozac. • Matti Saari, a college student in Finland, shot and killed 10 people before committing suicide at his university in 2008. The Finnish Ministry of Justice later reported he was taking an antidepressant and an anti-anxiety medication. • Steve Kazmierczak killed six including himself at Northern Illinois University in 2008 while in withdrawal from the antidepressant Prozac. • Tim Kretschmer murdered 15 students and teachers at his secondary school in Germany in 2009, and then committed suicide. Police reported Kretschmer was taking prescriptions to treat depression.
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thousands of cases sourced and documented: SSRI Stories even gun grabber michael moore wants to know if there's a connection- or he used to before the call from his attorneys these drugs are ticking time bombs in our society. it's only a matter of time before the next school shooting. The warning that comes with the drugs says "Suicidality and Antidepressant Drugs These drugs are now handed out to our Soldiers like beef jerkey. Any wonder why there are so many suicides from the returning troops? But there's no discussion in the US media, because that might hurt profit margins. Actually, it might collapse the entire BS Antidepressant industry. Even though we're in a drug war, our children must be assured access to *really* dangerous drugs. It's American Exceptionalism! There is a paper at the US National institutes of health that details the problem. Can't get a reporter to ask the questions that need asking though- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564177/ Time Magazine, 2008: America's Medicated Army
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Antidepressants increased the risk compared to placebo of suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality) in children, adolescents, and young adults in short-term studies of major depressive disorder (MDD) and other psychiatric disorders" 
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