This is circumstantial and not substantive, I'm sure Michael Atherton
would agree. You would have to look at the total numbers of students who
are taking pharmaceutical medications to come to any conclusion whether
there was a cause and effect. Many thousands of children are on the same
medications who do NOT resort to violence. It is very possible that
there are parents on this list who's children may be on these same
medications who would find this kind of conclusion disturbing.
Liz Greenbaum
Longfellow
Louise Bouta here:
Following is Short List of Recent American School Shooters and the
Brain-Altering, Empathy-Destroying, Impulse Control-Depleting, Road
Rage-Inducing, I Dont Give A Damn Drugs They Were On
* Eric Harris at Columbine High was on Luvox when he killed twelve classmates
and a teacher in Denver, Colorado.
* Kip Kinkel in Springfield, Oregon was withdrawing from Prozac when he shot 24
classmates/family members.
* Shawn Cooper, a 15-year-old in Notus, Idaho, was taking Ritalin when he fired
a shotgun at school.
* 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was on Prozac when she shot at fellow students in
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, wounding one.
* Mitchell Johnson was taking an unspecified psych drug when he shot fellow
students in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
* T.J. Solomon, a 15-year-old in Conyers, Georgia, was taking Ritalin when he
shot six classmates.
* Jason Hoffman was on Effexor and Celexa when he wounded five students at his
California high school.
* Cory Baadsgaard was on Paxil when took a rifle to his high school and held
23 classmates hostage.
If any of these incidents had been associated with illicit drug use, everybody would have been up in arms blaming the methamphetamine, the cocaine, the pot, the alcohol and calling on an increase in the futile War on Drugs. But because these dangerous and dependency-inducing synthetic chemicals have been blessed by the media, prescribed by respectable physicians, manufactured by extremely profitable famous corporations, making huge amounts of money for investors and are headed by CEOs who have their pictures on the covers of Fortune, Business Week, etc. we turn our gaze away from the obvious truth, condemning our teenagers to more brain-altering (yes even brain cell-destroying) legal zombification drugs that may affect our childrens personalities and behaviors for the rest of their lives, perhaps condemning them to more acts of suicide and/or aggression as Big Pharma laughs all the way to the bank.
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