Since this charge has been laid on anti-depressives, parents all over the country have stopped giving their kids those drugs or prevented them from being prescribed at all — and the number of suicides in that age group have gone up. What is the solution, then?
The mall killer in Omaha was on anti-depressant drugs — which he did not take. He was also on various kinds of illegal drugs. How many of the people who commit suicide are also on other drugs, legal or otherwise?
Close follow up when these drugs, SSRIs, are started, or the dose is increased. Maybe testing.
In Moscow Idaho, there was a guy coming down off of lithium, he killed his wife, shot up the sheriffs office, some officers, a church care taker, the church and then himself...
http://www.spokesman.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=9959
“The mall killer in Omaha was on anti-depressant drugs — which he did not take.”
Taking them sporadically is much worse than not taking them at all. I suspect that is the case for many of the ones who are not taking them when they engage in violence.