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prescription drugs -
exactly - do a search on Ritalin, Prozac etc for children - it's been well established for years but ignored until this past month - protecting the mega-industry/Drug companies...that these drugs are routinely pushed onto the youth of this country - and they have NEVER been tested nor approved for use in children!
Side effects include suicide and violence, All the school shootings were by children on these drugs - the shooting a few years ago by and adult at the day-trading place - was by a person on these drugs.
You want to stop some of these tragedies? Stop giving these drugs to the children.
They've finally passed a stipulation that a warning must be put on the pill bottles. Well, Congress - why don't you go after these legal drug pushers if you're really concerned about the violence and suicide?
Don't use the problem as an excuse for a different agenda.
Hundreds of thousands are killed each year in car accidents. Are we going to go back to horses?
Hundreds of thousands die each year in hospital/doctor 'accidents" - Who is trying to address this?
It would seem no one cares about these deaths - more per year than in any war - because it doesn't promote some political agenda.
How many people are killed per year with knives? Are we going to outlaw knives? (Maybe we can just take our meat in our hands and gnaw away.)
And should we get rid of all bridges and use only ferries?
(In my area, last year, we had a high schooler, depressed and on Prozac, put a rope around his neck and jump off a bridge. Miraculously, people acting fast were able to pull him up - his neck hadn't broken and after hospitalization, he survived. Should we take down that bridge and outlaw ropes?)
And Jimmy Carter closed down the mental intstitutions and turned these poor people in need of help out onto the streets with little to no recourse for help and treatment.
Yes, It's tragic that the gentleman lost his son - but let him go after the real problem...Stop drugging our kids!

- do a search on Ritalin, Prozac etc for children - it's been well established for years but ignored until this past month - protecting the mega-industry/Drug companies...that these drugs are routinely pushed onto the youth of this country - and they have NEVER been tested nor approved for use in children!

The FDA has approved for use in kiddies both Ritalin(methylphenidate) for attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADD/ADHD), and Prozac(fluoxetine), a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor(SSRI) for depression.

All the school shootings were by children on these drugs - the shooting a few years ago by and adult at the day-trading place - was by a person on these drugs.

I don't doubt you, but could you provide references? I believe Klebold may have been prescribed one of the newer SSRI antidepressants, but I'm not sure he was taking them at the time. There was a recent advisory to watch anyone who had been recently started on these SSRI antidepressants for about the first month of therapy, which was when they were most likely to be at risk for suicidal ideation. I approve the use of these drugs only as a last resort.

Hundreds of thousands die each year in hospital/doctor 'accidents" - Who is trying to address this?

Remind me tomorrow, and I'll get you the references to show that you that the original study is probably a gross exaggeration. I'm gone for the day. Adios