Perhaps a better question would be; How come kids who are screwed up haven't been doing this for years. How come there were no school shootings BEFORE they started drugging every child with a "behavioral problem"? Surely it's not because there were no children with these problems, and surely it's not because guns were not easy to obtain (many schools had shooting classes years ago and kids kept their rifles in their lockers). (Is society in general to blame for these problems? Are the parents to blame? The media? Video Games? The Internet? Are these all "copy-cat" killings?)
Personally, I think there IS a correlation between these shootings and the fact that these drugs are not the "magic pill" some doctors and school officials think they are... I worry about the kids taking these meds nowadays who never receive help for their conditions and grow up, lose their insurance and can't get their meds - what will happen to these kids who have never learned to deal with life without drugs?
I will also throw in here that my husband had a friend through work that was put on Prozac for stress... He never expressed any suicidal thoughts before starting the Prozac but within weeks of starting this medication he ended up killing himself...
my husband had a friend through work that was put on Prozac for stress... He never expressed any suicidal thoughts before starting the Prozac but within weeks of starting this medication he ended up killing himself... My grandson had a 14 year old friend in school that was on Prozac - and was threatening suicide as well as bringing a gun to school...my grandson went to the school counselor and demanded help for him ----He was interviewed and taken by ambulance for emergency treatment. He was gone for 6 weeks and then came home. Little or no follow up after and one month later, he jumped off the bridge with a rope around his neck. someone in a car saw it and rushed to pull him up...miraculously, he was able to be revived.
But here is something that would refute to people who are saying it's not the drugs, it's because these kids are already screwed up. (these drugs are still the common denominator!)
But how about this - I know a gal whose little boy had been put on prozac. a few months later he was having violent outbreaks - On her way to the emergency room with him (5 years old) he was in such a state that he kicked the windshield of the car out!
He was in the hospital for several days while they regulated the drugs...
These drugs have never been tested for safety in children and I call it legal drug-pushing