Posted on 09/10/2001 1:18:37 PM PDT by Slyfox
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:06:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
While Southwest Florida reels from news that yet another mother is accused of killing her child, a handful of doctors and researchers say the link to antidepressant drugs cannot be ignored.
Leslie Wallace, 39, of North Fort Myers, is one of a startling number of people whose unexpected acts of violence are being correlated to depression and the drugs prescribed to curb it.
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It sure seems like the number of depressed people has skyrocketed since the early seventies. Now everyone with PMS is supposed to take pink prosac pills. But since this is a corporation doing this, it is ok. I must be paranoid to think that they are pushing these drugs on people who don't need them under very loosely supervised situations.
Nearly every mass killer since the Stockton Playground Massacre has been on these drugs. We haven't heard about the status of the last two yet but I will bet there is a link. The Russian guy seemed to have a long history of violence before this happened so he may an exception.
Everytime I see one of these goofy articles I start looking for the Scientologists behind it. I found them again: The International Coalition for Drug Awareness has a link on their website to the So. Cal. lawyers suing Eli-Lilly:
Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Downey
George Murgatroyd, a founder of this firm is a Scientologist supporter and donor. The "ICDA" looks like a Scientologist front organization.
It's a scam: Of course they don't want you to send money to the big drug companies on their 'dangerous' drugs--send it to the Scientologists instead so's they can shine finny lights at you until you are all better!
Surely Freepers are smart enough to see this link--follow the money trail...
Have you heard of these people? To my (layman's) eye the site looks very wrong: more like a Scientology / litigation front than somewhere to learn about antidepressants.
It's Scientologist propaganda and some are falling for it!
I thought I was the only one noticing this. Apparently it is not a new thought. Come on FOX News; where are you?
I also take a potent and dangerous anti-epileptic drug, Neurontin (gaba-Pentin), for the same reason.
Strangely I have never had the urge to murder anyone.
Drugs are tools, guns. Like fire. Like chainsaws. It is not the tool--it is how it is used, and the character of the person using it.
--Boris
--Boris
Liberals have their guns to blame irrationally and conservatives have their antidepressants to blame irrationally.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
There are probably links to organizations I don't agree with on this sight. It doesn't invalidate what people have to say here.
Can be a pretty combustible result.
Equally complicated, is when people on prescribed medications for depression, decide to stop taking the stuff. They can also get into trouble, so to say.
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