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Authors' Quotes on Antidepressants and School Shootings

(NaturalNews) A 17-year-old former student opened fire near Stuttgart, Germany, killing at least 16 people. The teenager was a former student at a Winnenden school, where he initiated the shooting spree. Three teachers and at least 10 students were killed by his actions.The media is reporting that Tim Kretschmer, "walked calmly into three classrooms and opened fire, without saying a word." Following the shooting at his school, Tim ran to a psychiatric clinic school and killed an employee there. (Did he have a link to the psychiatric staff members there?)A day earlier, a man in his mid-30's opened fire in Alabama, killing ten people before he was shot and killed by law enforcement.In seeing the news reports on these events, the ignorant masses quite predictably leaped to the conclusion that "guns are the problem." Apparently in their minds, these shootings were carried out solely by guns and have nothing whatsoever to do with the people pulling the triggers. But the truth is far more insidious: It is thein America, Germany and elsewhere.These dangerous psychiatric medications drastically imbalance brain chemistry, causing teens (and adults) to feel distanced from reality, as if they are walking through a video game. In fact, this was exactly how the Columbine school shooters described their experience of carrying out the infamous shootings in Colorado.The report that Germany's shooter, Tim Kretschmer, "walked calmly into three classrooms and opened fire, without saying a word" is a strong indication that he was almost certainly suffering the brain-altering side effects of psychiatric medication.The pharmaceutical companies, of course, incessantly attempt to deny the reality that their drugsschool shootings. In fact, their psychiatric drugs actually cause the very same things they often claim to treat! Antidepressants , for example, can cause depression, suicidal thoughts and violent behavior. They also directly promote weight gain, obesity and diabetes, and those health conditions can then lead to more depression, requiring more "treatment" with medication.It's all a gigantic scam. These drug companies are just selling patented chemicals for profit while destroying the lives of human beings in the process. In my view,. Read the jaw-dropping collection of quotes (below) from authors on this issue to learn even more.Not surprisingly, the mainstream media remains virtually silent on this issue, not even mentioning any link between psychiatric drugs and school shootings. The media, you see, is largely funded by drug company advertisements.A truly remarkable documentary film on the history of psychiatric medication is now available through CCHR (the Citizens' Commission on Human Rights). Watch it here: http://www.cchr.org/#/videos/making-a-killin... Or see the two-minute trailer here: http://www.fightforkids.org/video/mak_previe... CCHR is the same non-profit organization that produced, which you can watch on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsfH_ap2Wgg CCHR is the world's leading organization fighting against the psychiatric medication abuse of children. I recently visited CCHR in Los Angeles and toured their shocking museum called. This is an absolutely mind-bending museum you simply can't miss seeing. If you're visiting Los Angeles, make plans to go through this museum (admission is free).You'll find it in the Hollywood district. The street address is: 6616 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90028.CCHR is the leading organization standing up against psychiatric medicine around the world. They have achieved an amazing number of important accomplishments in exposing the fraud and criminal behavior of the psychiatric industry, and they deserve your support: www.CCHR.org You may also know I'm the writer and singer on the song known aswhich you can download or listen to here: https://www.naturalnews.com/SSRIs_S_S_R_Lies.... The lyrics are included on the right-hand column of that page.Below, you'll find selected quotes from noted authors on the subject of antidepressants and suicide or violent behavior. Feel free to quote these in your own work provided you give proper credit to both the original author quoted here and this NaturalNews page.This first list of school shootings is from the book, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill Illegal mind-altering drugs may elicit the same or similar adverse reactions as many of the newer mind-altering, yet this important correlation, beyond a cursory mention, is absent from serious consideration in most of the. The following list ofis an example of the number of children with a known history of psychiatric counseling and psychiatric drug use: [abbreviated list, get the book to read the full list] Kip land "Kip" Kinkle, 15 years old, May 21, 1998, Thurston Middle School, Springfield, Ore. Killed his mother and father and two students; wounded 25 others. Psychiatric counseling and drug use: Prozac. Shawn Cooper, 15 years old, April 16, 1999, Notus Junior-Senior High School, Notus, Idaho. Fired two gun shots. No one injured or killed. Psychiatric drugs used: "antidepressants." Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, 18 and 17 years old, respectively, April 20, 1999, Columbine High School, Littleton, Colo. Twelve students and one teacher killed; 24 others wounded. Shooters commit suicide. Psychiatric drug use: Harris had been prescribed Zoloft and Luvox. Thomas "T.J." Solomon, 15 years old, May 20, 1999, Heritage High School, Conyers, Ga. Six wounded. Psychiatric drug use: Prior psychiatric counseling and Ritalin. Elizabeth Bush, 14 years old, March 7, 2001, Bishop Neumann High School, Williamsport, Pa. Wounded one student. Psychiatric drug use: "antidepressants." Jason Hoffman, 18 years old, March 22, 2001, Granite Hills High School, El Cajon, Ca. Killed one; wounded one. Psychiatric drug use: Celexa and Effexor. Cory Baadsgaard, 16 years old, April 15, 2001, Wahluke High School, Mattawa, Wash. Held 23 students and a teacher hostage with a rifle. No injuries or deaths. Psychiatric drug use: Paxil and Effexor. John Jason McLaughlin, 15-years old, September 14, 2001, Recori High School, Cold Spring, Minnesota. One killed and 1 wounded. Jeff Weise, 16 years old, March 21, 2005, Red Lake High School, Red Indian Reservation, Minn. Killed nine and wounded seven others then committed suicide. Psychiatric drug use: Prozac. Michael Carneal, 14 years old, Dec 1, 1997, Heath High School, West Paducah, Ky. Killed three students; wounded five others. Had psychiatric counseling prior to shooting. Mitchell Johnson, 13 years old, and Andrew Golden, 11 years old, March 25, 1998, Westside Middle School, Jonesboro, Ark. One teacher, four students killed; 11 wounded. Johnson received psychiatric treatment prior to the shooting.Reports in the media began suggesting thatmight be behind the horrific murders that shook the nation. These stories typically noted that Andrea Yates (Houston bathtub drownings), Kip Kinkel (Jonesboro, Arkansas, shootings), Eric Harris (Columbineshootings) and Christopher Pittman (South Carolina grandparents murdered) were on or had been on. The relationship betweenagainst others andagainst self is apparent.Hostility andare also mentioned in the FDA-approved labels for some antidepressant drugs. Theas a group have a dangerous potential to produce abnormal behavior that can culminate in bothand. The SSRIare especially liable to produce extremely irrational and sometimes horrendously violent acts.Despite mountains of evidence, they were avidly denying thatcan cause mayhem, murder, and. From the moment Prozac burst on the scene in 1989, to the start of the FDA hearings onin 2004, many stories of antidepressant-inducedandhad been reported in the press. Hundreds more had been sent to the FDA and had even been published in the scientific literature concerning antidepressant-induced "harm to self and others.However, mania is by no means the only waycan induce. The SSRI, as well as some othersuch as Wellbutrin and Desyrel (trazodone) cause akathisia. In earlier chapters, I described this drug-induced neurological condition that can become a virtual inner torture of irritation and anguish. Akathisia can drive a person toward bizarre and even violent actions. SSRIs can also cause a loosening of inhibition or self-control, leading to unanticipated acts ofMany doctors seem to believe thatwill reduce the likelihood of a patient attempting or committing. The labels forwarn about being careful aboutbut they emphasize that this care is required until the antidepressant can take effect. This falsely implies thatcan reduce the danger of. After reviewing the vast literature and after examining the internal records of several antidepressant makers, it is absolutely clear thatdo not reduce therate.Andrew Mosholder, the task of investigating the emerging (though it had been around for years) evidence of a link betweenandattempts in children. As he was told to, he did his job and filed his report, but the FDA refused to release it. They also refused to allow him to participate in public hearings onthat were conducted in February 2004. Why? Our belief is that it is because of his finding that children who takeare two times more likely to exhibit suicidal behaviors than depressed children who are not givenClassic papers dating as far back as the 1930s describe the risk with amphetamine. For decades pharmaceutical companies and drug proponents adamantly denied the phenomenon, but by the 1970s, when strict limitations were imposed on prescribing amphetamines, their ability to triggerandhad been firmly established. In the 1980s, a similar phenomenon was recognized with tricyclic, the class of drugs used between the fall of amphetaminein the 1970s and the rise of serotonin boosters in the 1990s.On July 16, 2005, BMJ(formerly known as the British Medical Journal), in a major review article ("Efficacy ofin Adults"), summarized the research on the long-term outcome ofthis way: "Antidepressants have not been convincingly shown to affect the long-term outcome of depression orrates." Todayare increasingly used by Americans who are not severely depressed, and they are being prescribed on a long-term basis. The previously mentioned 2000 ABC News poll reported that 46 percent of antidepressant users had taken them for a year or more.The cases and scientific evidence presented in this book should convincingly demonstrate thatcause. Given that psychiatric drugs can cause, is there evidence that any of them actually reduce suicide? The answer is no. Particularly in the case of the, drug companies and their paid researchers have tried for years to show that these drugs reduce therate, but no compelling evidence has been forthcoming.Given that this conservative diagnostic manual makes clear thatcause mania and that mania can produce goal-directed criminal acts, anger,, depression, and, no physician should doubt thatcause acts ofor. Unfortunately, despite clinical experience, scientific data, and a consensus of opinion among experts, many doctors refuse to believe that their medications are sometimes driving patients to crime,, andAdults whose symptoms worsen while being treated with, including an increase in suicidal thinking or behavior, should be evaluated by their health-care professional. The data convinced even the FDA hardliners. Belatedly, the agency issued warnings about suicidal thinking and. These cautions came far too late to prevent many terrible tragedies over nearly 2 decades. As difficult as it has been for psychiatrists and FDA officials to contemplate, people taking SSRI-typeare sometimes preoccupied with thoughts ofor homicide.Adults in Taiwan and Korea, whereare rarely used, have very low rates of major depression. Adults in America, Canada and France, whereare commonly prescribed, have much higher rates. Are western people born inherently inferior to Asian people mentally; that is, more prone to develop a mental disease? In 1950, when noexisted, therates for children and young people were less than half the rates for those same age groups in 2000 despite dramatic growth in antidepressant use among America's youth.Perhaps the most dangerous misconception is that the seriously depressed can better be prevented frombythan any other therapeutic technique. Not only is there no such proof, but SSRIactually increase suicidal thoughts and behavior for some patients. In 2004, the FDA ordered thatcarry a "black box" warning, the government's strongest warning, alerting consumers to the risk of increased suicidal thoughts and behavior among children and teens taking them.The availability of graduated doses, 5- and 10-milligram pills, would have undermined this advantage over all otheravailable at the time. Likewise, had the FDA decided to add a warning onandto the label of, this would have necessitated closer monitoring of patients, markedly reducing Prozac's unique appeal for primary-care clinicians. Another memo makes clear that dosing problems were brought to Lilly's attention again not long after the drug went on the market.As this book goes to press, a research team led by Kirsch (2008) has once again produced a meta-analysis of the scientific literature demonstrating the ineffectiveness of. It is a sad, ironic, and tragic tale: It's impossible to prove thatactually relieve depression but it's relatively easy to demonstrate that they can worsen depression and cause mania, murder, and. If my colleagues wanted to be scientific about it, they would call them "depressants" rather than, and take them off the market.Paxil is not substantially different from Prozac, Zoloft, Luvox, Celexa, Effexor, Wellbutrin, or any other of the newerin its capacity to cause overstimulation and a variety of other dangerous adverse mental reactions. If Paxil causesin adults, so do the other. As already described, the FDA has mandated clear warnings that are identical for the drugs. But because it is so short-acting and potent, Paxil probably poses a more frequent and more severe risk than some of the otherMadhukar Trivedi, a clinical psychiatrist who is the director of the Mood Disorders Research Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical, has been researching the effectiveness of using exercise to augment. In 2006 he published a pilot study showing that patients who weren't responding tolowered their scores on a common depression test by 10.4 points on a 17-point scale -- a huge drop -- after twelve weeks of exercise. All seventeen patients were deeply depressed and had been takingfor at least four months.Children using venlafaxine (Effexor) -- a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) -- had a 2.3 times greater risk ofattempts compared with no drug treatment at all. Tricyclicwere also significantly linked withattempts.They divided the people into two groups -- those who had receivedand those who had not. They found that children between the ages of six and 18 who were takingwere 1.5 times more likely to attemptand 15 times more likely to die in that attempt than individuals not treated with an antidepressant.Express Scripts reported in 2003 that in a five-year period (1998-2002) the use ofin children increased from 1.6 per 100 to 2.4 per 100 -- an adjusted annual increase of 9.2 percent, with the fastest-growing segment of users being preschoolers (newborns to 5 years old). As a follow up to the FDA's revelations about the adverse effects associated with, Express Scripts updated its study, reporting "the prevalence of antidepressant use in children continued to rise through the first half of 2004.Still, though, there is the matter of the 2004 public hearings, where once again, due to the public outcry, the FDA was forced to revisit the issue of suicidality and SSRIs due to an ever-increasing number of claims that the mind-altering(including Prozac) were causing suicidal thoughts and other harmful behaviors. What does Breggin conclude? "Lilly continued to hide the documents and the data at the 2004 FDA hearings on pediatric suicidality caused by. At the hearings Tom Laughren of the FDA said that he knew of no data linking SSRIs toor hostility.An estimated 500,000 grade-school children are now taking. In the teen years, this high rate of depression translates into a tragically high number of suicides and attempted suicides. The teenrate has increased threefold since 1960, making it the third leading cause of death among adolescents.But a very well-kept secret, revealed by considering all the research, is that the actual rate of death fromis higher in patients who take the newthan in those who take the older tricyclics. Even more important, twice as many people taking the newsuccessfully committedthan did the people who took placebos.And it is here that even those who continue to believe in the usefulness ofoverwhelmingly fault the industry. The most charitable read it as a case of fragmented decision making and regulatory numbness. Others assert that it was all about maintaining sales. Whatever you believe about motivation, you can be certain that every major SSRI maker fudged when it came to reporting publicly the rate of, suicidal ideation, andassociated with use of their drug.What's more, for almost all the drugs, except Prozac, there was no evidence from the clinical trials in children that theworked any better at relieving depression than a placebo or dummy pill. British authorities moved in late 2003 to try to stop the drugs being prescribed to children. A year later authorities in the U.S. demanded that companies add a "black box" warning to antidepressant labels -- more than a decade after the drugs had first appeared on the market.According to independent analysis of the clinical trials -- almost all of which have been funded by their manufacturers -- on average the advantages of theseover placebo or dummy pills are modest at best, yet their side effects can include sexual problems, severe withdrawal, reactions, and an apparent increase in the risk of suicidal behavior among the young. Somewhat ironically, part of the marketing of these newhas played directly on fears thatcould result if a young person's depression was left untreated.