Posted on 02/15/2025 7:28:56 AM PST by BenLurkin
Kennedy has repeatedly railed against what he sees as rampant overprescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly known as SSRIs, which treat depression and anxiety and include medications like Prozac and Zoloft. As with his previous assertions about vaccines, many of his statements about these drugs are not backed by science. In a 2023 livestream on X with Elon Musk, he claimed that “tremendous circumstantial evidence” suggested that people taking antidepressants were more likely to commit school shootings. (Actually, most school shooters were not taking those drugs, evidence shows.) Kennedy has also called people who take SSRIs addicts—and then tried to claim he didn’t during his confirmation hearings.
...The Food and Drug Administration already requires drug manufacturers to include warnings in packaging because of some evidence that SSRIs can cause a temporary increase in suicidal thoughts in pediatric patients...
In a podcast appearance last July, Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities.” The farm residents would grow their own organic food because, he suggested, many of their underlying problems could be “food-related.”
During the confirmation hearings, Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) said Kennedy’s statements about antidepressants “reinforce the stigma that people who experience mental health [conditions]…face every single day.”
(Excerpt) Read more at motherjones.com ...
This makes me sad.
, he claimed that “tremendous circumstantial evidence” suggested that people taking antidepressants were more likely to commit school shootings. (Actually, most school shooters were not taking those drugs, evidence shows.
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One here has nothing to do with the other. It’s a logical fallacy.
“Actually, most school shooters were not taking those drugs, evidence shows...”
I would like to know where the author found the data to research this.
I have seen marijuana frequently coming up with these criminals but there seems to be an unwillingness on the part of the media to do any solid research and followup on these shooting events with regard to drug use, hormones, hormone blockers, etc.
What Mother Jones means by "science" is the government-big pharma orthodoxy. I'd give more credence to RFK jr than to the CDC or FDA. They lie for profit.
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BS !!!
These drugs even have warnings on the label !
What makes me mad is the doctors that over prescribe these things for normal, healthy anxiety and get their clients addicted to them. Especially young women who want to medicate normal anxiety away. People have anxiety is natural. Generations before were taught how to deal with it without taking a pill. I understand that some need the meds, but way over prescribed.
There is a black box warning on SSRIs stating that it may increase suicidal and homicidal ideation. Even if rare and only impacts 0.2% of people who take them, if you put a million people on them that’s still 2000 lunatics. 10 million that’s 20,000 lunatics.
My niece got so messed up with these meds..at the request for help from her sisters, her mother flew from NYS to Ca....and “burned” the doctor.
I think any publication being critical of President Trump and his administration should disclose how much government money they have received over the years.
The days of taking what the media reports as being true are over.
No more “...there is evidence...” without citing the evidence.
No more anonymous sources.
No more “...it has been reported...’ without checking the original source not just another media outlet quoting another media outlet.
I’ve taken low dose Prozac since 1987. It has made a normal life possible.
My dream is that he tells parents that they (almost always) DO NOT have to drug their kids...just SPANK them, at least when they’re young. Western society threw away 5,000 years of child-rearing history because of a few clowns, like Dr. Spock, insisted that the ‘new way’ was better.
Man, I have to ask - WHY would you post a story from that septic tank? Asking for a depressed friend ...
I’m on the Spectrum and Depression comes along with it sometimes. I never took anything for fear I would have to come off it.
A much better target than vaccines or Big Macs.
I call BS.
I doubt that they release all the evidence about what medications the shooters were taking.
If RFK Jr’s first act is NOT to address the ongoing crimes across the country regarding the covid jabs...
...then I was absolutely right to be critical of him in this role.
better load up on the anti-depressants soon then!!
Yup- anti-depressants often make people worse off after they taken them....then of course there’s all that “science” on the kung flu vax and the invermectin which didn’t work...
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