Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking Luvox – like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor and many others, a…widely prescribed type of antidepressant drug called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs…Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals concedes that during short-term controlled clinical trials, 4 percent of children and youth taking Luvox – that’s one in 25 – developed mania, a dangerous and violence-prone mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion.Patrick Purdy went on a schoolyard shooting rampage in Stockton, California, in 1989, which became the catalyst for the original legislative frenzy to ban “semiautomatic assault weapons” in California and the nation. The 25-year-old Purdy, who murdered five children and wounded 30, had been on Amitriptyline, an antidepressant, as well as the antipsychotic drug Thorazine.
Kip Kinkel, 15, murdered his parents in 1998 and the next day went to his school, Thurston High in Springfield, Oregon, and opened fire on his classmates, killing two and wounding 22 others. He had been prescribed both Prozac and Ritalin.
In 1988, 31-year-old Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Illinois, killing one child and wounding six. She had been taking the antidepressant Anafranil as well as Lithium, long used to treat mania.
In Paducah, Kentucky, in late 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal, son of a prominent attorney, traveled to Heath High School and started shooting students in a prayer meeting taking place in the school’s lobby, killing three and leaving another paralyzed. Carneal reportedly was on Ritalin.
In 2005, 16-year-old Jeff Weise, living on Minnesota’s Red Lake Indian Reservation, shot and killed nine people and wounded five others before killing himself. Weise had been taking Prozac.
In another famous case, 47-year-old Joseph T. Wesbecker, just a month after he began taking Prozac in 1989, shot 20 workers at Standard Gravure Corp. in Louisville, Kentucky, killing nine. Prozac-maker Eli Lilly later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors.
Kurt Danysh, 18, shot his own father to death in 1996, a little more than two weeks after starting on Prozac. Danysh’s description of own his mental-emotional state at the time of the murder is chilling: “I didn’t realize I did it until after it was done,” Danysh said. “This might sound weird, but it felt like I had no control of what I was doing, like I was left there just holding a gun.”
One more case is instructive, that of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, who struggled in court to explain why he murdered his grandparents, who had provided the only love and stability he’d ever known in his turbulent life. “When I was lying in my bed that night,” he testified, “I couldn’t sleep because my voice in my head kept echoing through my mind telling me to kill them.” Christopher had been angry with his grandfather, who had disciplined him earlier that day for hurting another student during a fight on the school bus. So later that night, he shot both of his grandparents in the head with a .410 shotgun as they slept and then burned down their South Carolina home, where he had lived with them. “I got up, got the gun, and I went upstairs and I pulled the trigger,” he recalled. “Through the whole thing, it was like watching your favorite TV show. You know what is going to happen, but you can’t do anything to stop it.” Pittman’s lawyers would later argue that the boy had been a victim of “involuntary intoxication,” since his doctors had him taking the antidepressants Paxil and Zoloft just prior to the murders.
Paxil’s known “adverse drug reactions” – according to the drug’s FDA-approved label – include “mania,” “insomnia,” “anxiety,” “agitation,” “confusion,” “amnesia,” “depression,” “paranoid reaction,” “psychosis,” “hostility,” “delirium,” “hallucinations,” “abnormal thinking,” “depersonalization” and “lack of emotion,” among others. The preceding examples are only a few of the best-known offenders who had been taking prescribed psychiatric drugs before committing their violent crimes – there are many others.
So we give psychotropic drugs to mentally unstable people, then blame the drugs when people act mentally unstable?
I knew a school teacher who was on Paxil and swore by it as a means of dealing with disruptive teenagers in his high school teaching job. Retired now.
Just wow. Thanks for posting.
I’ve always been anti-drug. I’m doubling down on that.
sorta remindful of MK-Ultra, huh?
the program said to be put to sleep years ago...but who knows...seen articles lately questioning that!!!
Hmmm....????
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GunnyG@PlanetWTF?
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And the problem is not only those currently or recently on psycothropic drugs.
Those who, even years ago, were on those drugs in school to deal with impulsive and/or violence behavior were never weaned from that behavior in the traditional way: a diet of discipline and punishment until self-control is mastered.
Later, when they are past the formative years, without ever learning self-control, it’s too late and nothing but jail or execution can control them.
So nothing in the article proves he was on psychotropic drugs and we still don’t know if he was or wasn’t on them.
I hate when people post worthless clickbait.
Does Xanax have the same side effects?
What happens if someone stops taking it when they (subjectively) feel better?
What happens if someone then starts taking it when they (subjectively) feel worse?
What the media is ignoring is where was this shooter adopted from? Was it from a Russian orphanage, where children with fetal alcohol syndrome get placed?
IMO, the crucial factor ignored is...these punks don’t go where they’re gonna face an American w/a gun!
Drugs no drugs, Guys& Gals w/guns are already preventinf robberies, shooting on the streets and across America! Because they run into someone there w/a gun!
This will also work in the schools when the call goes out for volunteers w/guns...thousands of Americans (NOT AINOs) will respond! Then! the bad guys day is made!
As me old DI was fond of saying back in 1952...Very F’n Simple!
Simplicity and Continuity!
Now...Get TRUMP.45 THE OUTSIDER (No Politics/No GubMint!)to sound the call and GTF outta the way!
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GunnyG@PlanetWTF!
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You repeatedly show a Muslim Koran verses and then several Muslims fly jets into the world trade Center.
You repeatedly show a mentally deranged loser on drugs images of mass shootings, the fame and the “glory” the news media grants to a mass shooter and you get that loser to do a mass shooting.
I've tried to explain this for years on this forum and elsewhere . Not many people seems to get this. hmmmm
Another drug not mentioned that sets off the criminally insane is ISLAM.
I dare anyone who is raising an FAS/autistic or other diagnosed mentally ill kid to not use prescribed “pyschotropic” meds
BigPharma’s little ‘secret’.
Christopher Wray is the other crucial factor in this horrible mass killings, along with his boss AG. Sessions. Due to their lack of attention to a possible school shooter back in September. Instead of constantly defending a bunch of useless agents, Wray and Sessions should be firing people.
President Trump should immediately fire these two for their failure to protect the American children.
“FDA Forgot a few ADHD Drug Related Deaths and Injuries”
https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/drugs-medical/adhd_fda-00103.html
Bingo
The evil pharmaceutical companies are to blame for upwards of 90 percent of our troubled people in this world
If you’re manic depressive and certified to beso. Then drugs will help
Other than that these stupid SSRIs and classes of drugs designed to ease depression are totally evil
The only real proven ways to beat depression are work excercise and thinking of others
Your only need to see them myrdering millions with opiate class drugs and CARE NOT AT ALL to see just how EVIL these companies are
Thanks for posting this.
I was once a lone voice, trying to bring awareness of this phenomenon to my fellow Freepers.
Thankfully, a great many others are now aware of the evidence supporting a causal linkage between SSRIs and violent behavior.
Interesting post on young assassins and their drug history from Q-reaseach
Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold’s medical records have never been made available to the public.
Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.
Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.
Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.
Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.
Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days.
Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.
Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.
A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school.
Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded..
A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.
Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.
TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.
Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.
James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.
Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania
Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California
Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.
Chris Shanahan, age 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman.
Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister.
Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.
Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from Prozac when he died from a gunshot wound to his head. Initially it was ruled a suicide, but two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also age 14, had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants.
Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription had been doubled.
Diane Routhier was prescribed Welbutrin for gallstone problems. Six days later, after suffering many adverse effects of the drug, she shot herself.
Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and a University of Florida student, was prescribed Prozac at the age of 17. His family found him dead of suicide – hanging from a tall ladder at the family’s Gulf Shore Boulevard home in July 2002.
Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on Paxil when she hung herself from a hook in her closet. Kara’s parents said “…. the damn doctor wouldn’t take her off it and I asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil…”)
Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on Paxil when he committed suicide in 2002,
(Gareth’s father could not accept his son’s death and killed himself.)
Julie Woodward, age 17, was on Zoloft when she hung herself in her family’s detached garage.
Matthew Miller was 13 when he saw a psychiatrist because he was having difficulty at school. The psychiatrist gave him samples of Zoloft. Seven days later his mother found him dead, hanging by a belt from a laundry hook in his closet.
Kurt Danysh, age 18, and on Prozac, killed his father with a shotgun. He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, trying to warn the world that SSRI drugs can kill.
Woody ____, age 37, committed suicide while in his 5th week of taking Zoloft. Shortly before his death his physician suggested doubling the dose of the drug. He had seen his physician only for insomnia. He had never been depressed, nor did he have any history of any mental illness symptoms.
A boy from Houston, age 10, shot and killed his father after his Prozac dosage was increased.
Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking Zoloft and “other drugs for the conditions.”
Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine.
Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system.
Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School – then he committed suicide.
Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon was on Trazodone.
Jon Romano, age 16, on medication for depression, fired a shotgun at a teacher in his
New York high school.
Missing from list… 3 of 4 known to have taken these same meds….
What drugs was Jared Lee Loughner on, age 21…… killed 6 people and injuring 14 others in Tuscon, Az
What drugs was James Eagan Holmes on, age 24….. killed 12 people and injuring 59 others in Aurora Colorado
What drugs was Jacob Tyler Roberts on, age 22, killed 2 injured 1, Clackamas Or
What drugs was Adam Peter Lanza on, age 20, Killed 26 and wounded 2 in Newtown Ct
Thank you for your post. No one knows how Anti-Depressants work and we read that the real truth about how little they were tested before coming to market is a scandal. Many people have terrible side effects from the use of them, some of which can be permanent and disabling. The worst part happens when a person tries to stop using them. Withdrawal is very difficult and often the person is not able to stop. According to Dr. Stuart Shipko, even in those who are able to stop, sometimes terrible side effects will happen months or even years later and can be permanent. If you have a loved one on these medications or if you are taking them yourself, you need to read a recent book, “Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression,” by JoHann Hari. Also, Dr. Stuart Shipko, M.D. has published a very informative book about the benefits and dangers of antidepressants. It is, “Dr. Shipko’s Informed Consent for SSRI Antidepressants.” Unfortunately, many of these drugs are prescribed by the family Dr. who only knows what he/she is told by Big Pharma representative. People should do their own research.
Another resource about how stimulant drugs were used to embolden soldiers who had to commit horrific acts back in history is the book, “Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany,” by Norman Ohler. I read it while on vacation last summer. Couldn’t put it down because it is a testament as to how drugs alter the brain and enable people, for a time, to experience super human energy and aggression. According to this book, Hitler, himself, was addicted. Could drugs have played a big role in one of the most horrific mass murders in known history?