> Anti-Depressants and Killers (A Sampler)
>
> Eric Harris was on Luvox and Jeff Wiese was on Prozac.
>
> Kip Kinkle (Oregon), on methylphenidate and Prozac, killed
> four people, including his own parents, and wounded at least 22
> others.
>
> Luke Woodham (Mississippi), on an SSRI, killed three people,
> including his mother, and wounded at least six others.
>
> Jason Hoffman (California), while taking the antidepressants
> Celexa and Effexor, shot and wounded four students and two
> teachers. He later committed suicide while incarcerated.
>
> Cory Baadsgaard (Washington). On Effexor, he held 23
> classmates and a teacher hostage with a rifle.
>
> Elizabeth Bush (Pennsylvania). She blasted away at fellow
> students, wounding one. She was on an antidepressant.
>
> T.J. Solomon (Georgia). He wounded six classmates. He was on
> antidepressants.
>
> Shawn Cooper (Idaho). He fired two shotgun rounds in his
> school, narrowly missing human targets. He was on
> antidepressants.
>
> Jeremy Strohmeyer (Nevada). He raped and killed a 7-year-old
> in a ladies' room. He was on Dexedrine.
>
> Michael Carneal (Kentucky). He killed three students and
> wounded five others. He was on Ritalin.
>
> It looks like more people are waking up to the roles that SSRI's and
> other drugs play in school shootings. At least lets hope so.
>
> I don't recall what the percetages are, but there are an astounding
> number of school-aged children who are on ADD drugs. It might be 10%%
> or more. Ritilin is merely the gateway drug to the SSRI's. Those drugs
> can damage the brain resulting in vivid hallucinations.
>
> 1. Prozac and other SSRI are a multi-million dollar a year business.
> In the 1990s, when insurance companies began approving prescribed SSRIs,
> American women swarmed their doctors demanding relief from their
> psychological burdens. It may be that as many as half of the women
> covered by insurance plans are taking them.
>
> 2. School psychologists and nurses are paid when they produce a child
> who is diagnosed with a disorder and prescribed anti-depressants or
> anti-psychotics. Because of this incentive many American children are
> on these drugs.
>
> 3. The school shootings phenomena began as these drugs became known.
>
> There are other factors but the drug pattern should not be ignored.
>
> There are going to be a lot more of these types of killings...not
> because of copycats...but because there are so many students whose
> brains have been scarred by those drugs.
>
> One cannot simply stop taking a SSRI. Children or adults must be
> carefully weaned away. Even then in some cases there have been
> repercussions. One of these is flashback, hallucinations
> that may occur years after having stopped taking the drug. Similar to
> those of LSD.
>
> When I was in school, the percentage of students taking Ritilin would
> have been -0- or darn close to it. But there were no school mass
> murders except for the college student in the Texas Tower. It was
> discovered that he had a brain tumor.
>
> Ritalin is not a SSRI though for some it can be just as deadly. Ritalin
> is an amphetamine, speed.
>
> So, you might say that the children of the baby boom generation have
> it easier than did their parents. They can get prescription LSD and
> speed.
>
> The US military has a recruiting regulation that states that it cannot
> accept any one who has taken any of these drugs.