Re-sending from yesterday:
Very interesting, indeed. Given the exceptional circumstances, one would
hope that all areas of physical health, especially brain injury,
allergic reactions and nutrition are examined thoroughly before
pharmaceuticals and prison end up being the coping reaction. As well,
the family history of drug dependency and possible environmental toxins
should be scrutinized.
Sam smith posted the following the other day:
*Natalia*
December 16, 2012
Anti-depressants and violence
*Medical Whistleblower, 2011
<http://medicalwhistleblower.blogspot.com/2011/09/mass-violence-caused-by-anti.html>
- *Recent cases of mass violence such as the Joseph Wesbecker in
Virginia that shot his co-workers, the Virginia Tech murders, the
Columbine Shootings, and the shootings at Fort Hood, all point to the
fact that anti-depressant and SSRI medication are dangerous to the
public. These medications can cause homicidal thinking which results in
public violence and also in suicides. The pharmaceutical industry wants
to use the returning veterans as a huge potential pharmaceutical drug
customer base. All veterans are trained to use weapons and often have
weapons easily at hand. With post traumatic stress a major problem in
the returning troops, we have a social problem to deal with their mental
health needs. With the US government picking up the tab, the
pharmaceutical companies are lobbying heavily to increase their expected
profits from the sales of drugs for Post Traumatic Stress
<http://medicalwhistleblower.blogspot.com/2011/09/mass-violence-caused-by-anti.html#>
Disorder sufferers.
The huge numbers of returning veterans are a prime target of their sales
efforts. Big Pharma pours lots of money into the political campaigns of
those who support their agenda. These huge pharmaceutical companies have
persons on the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health that
are pushing to do wholesale marketing of selective serotonin reuptake
inhibitors and other mind altering drugs to veterans with PTSD. The
constantly expanding prison population is another target for the SSRI
drug marketing and especially those prisoners facing re-entry and who
will soon have Medicaid/Medicare to pay their pharmaceutical bills. -
When SSRI antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft were first
introduced in the late 1980's and early 1990's there were reports of
increasing violent behavior including suicide and homicide. There were
in 2003 reports by British authorities and the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration about unpublished studies showing an increased risk of
suicide in children and teenagers taking Paxil. Prior reports of
suicidal and homicidal acts in adults taking SSRIs have been minimized
by the pharmaceutical company defenders and mainstream doctors, who
claim that suicide is common in depression
<http://medicalwhistleblower.blogspot.com/2011/09/mass-violence-caused-by-anti.html#>
anyway. ---
The recent violence Nov. 5, 2009 at Fort Hood in Texas in which a
military psychiatrist shot and killed 13 people and wounded 30 others
gives us good reason to reconsider these psychiatric drug treatments for
military personnel and veterans. This incident reminded me of the
Northern Illinois University mass shootings where former grad student
Stephen Kazmierczak killed 5 students and wounding dozens of others
before committing suicide himself. This gunman had been taking the drug
Paxil prior to his mass killings. The drug manufacturer had been
deliberately withholding information about violent behavior as an
adverse effect of the medication. Now the drug Paxil carries a black box
warning about homicide and suicide. On Sept 14, 2004, an FDA panel voted
18 to 5 to require manufacturers of all antidepressants to add black box
warnings to their product labeling. A month later, the FDA adopted the
panel's recommendations. The warning reads in part: "Antidepressants
increased the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality) in
short-term studies in children and adolescents with Major Depressive
Disorder
<http://medicalwhistleblower.blogspot.com/2011/09/mass-violence-caused-by-anti.html#>
and other psychiatric disorders. Anyone considering the use of [Drug
Name] or any other antidepressant in a child or adolescent must balance
this risk with the clinical need.
<http://www.ssristories.com/index.php?p=school> *List of shootings with
shooter on anti-depressant* <http://www.ssristories.com/index.php?p=school>
http://www.ssristories.com/index.php?p=school
*http://prorevnews.blogspot.ca/2012/12/anti-depressants-and-violence.html*
On 17/12/2012 5:46 PM, michael gurstein wrote:
http://thebluereview.org/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother/
*/[MG>] The comments are as interesting as the piece./*
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