[Pecos]

But drugs are so much more convenient for ensuring that little Billy stays in line and doesn’t offend anyone.

[Nextrush]

Peter Hitchens has written a lot in his Sunday “Daily Mail” columns and blog about the connection between drugs, legal and illegal, and heinous crime focusing a lot on UK cases.

[grobdriver]

Ping for reference.

[US Navy Vet]

I was on Ritalin(20 Mg 2x a day) from age 6 until age 14 and I sometimes wonder what it may have done to me. Can any Freeper Docs or Pharmacists maybe inform me?

[Nextrush]

“unrighteous doctors, dealing drugs that will never cure your ills....” Bob Dylan “When You Gonna Wake Up”

[cicero2k]

It’s important to identify other sources of risk for these young men, besides access to guns. This is a good start.

Where is the list of shooters, where it has been documented that there is no drug involvement? I know it goes way back, the Austin Texas tower shooter in the 1960s surely did not have access to these drugs, but these events were very rare then, and would form a baseline.

Why so many killers in USA, so few in Europe, the common genetic source for most of these individuals?

[exDemMom]

I think the author and those he quotes may be confusing cause and effect here. People are prescribed the psychoactive drugs precisely because they do have mental issues. If they act out on the mental issues, it is not because of the drugs—it is because the preexisting mental issues are not adequately controlled.

It’s kind of like observing that a disproportionate number of obese people drink diet soda, and then concluding that diet soda causes obesity.

That said, I do not like the propensity to prescribe drugs without first addressing the behavioral issues. Behavior therapy has some success in treating certain mental disorders. (Some mental illnesses, like schizophrenia, cannot be treated without drugs, though.)

[goodwithagun]

It's so easy to get the script as well. My former sister-in-law Googled ADD symptoms to tell her doc to get an Aderol script. She used it for weight loss. My oldest is high functioning ASD. On our journey to that diagnosis a local child psychologist labeled him ADHD. I knew she was wrong, yet she had no problem with recommending Ritalin for a four-year-old! For whatever reason the high school at which I teach asked students to submit the meds they take. I was frightened! These kids and their parents had no problems with pill popping. Feeling stressed to stay on the valedictorian list? Take some Zoloft! Everything will be fine, right?

[BBell]

I guess a start would be to take guns away from anyone who has ever been under a doctors care or on prescription drugs. 0bama would approve.

[Little Ray]

Correlation is not causation.
But a pretty good case is being built here for the drugs being an issue.