okay, you godless leftist monsters, your liberal shrink community has been
over-prescribing this chemical junk for decades and it's weakening America
even more. You're all screwed up -- your stupid drugs and your brainless
ideology. you pretend to care about people but all you want to do is
control everybody and make them like you are, you assinine commie-*****
licking creeps. read and try to learn something from people who can still
think and reason and who really know the truth about what's LEFT (no pun
intended) of America. You're all gonna burn in Hell, you liberal scummers,
and I bet your damned shrink pills won't help you there.
Tony
WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE
MANIA
The shocking link between psychiatric drugs,
suicide, violence and mass murder
Posted: July 6, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
From Columbine to Virginia Tech, every time another headline-making mass
murderer is discovered to have taken antidepressants or other psychiatric
drugs, rumors and speculation abound regarding the possible connection
between the medications and the violence.
Now, reports the July 2007 edition of WND's elite monthly Whistleblower
magazine, the time for speculation and guessing is over. The evidence is
overwhelming and irrefutable, says Whistleblower's groundbreaking
investigative report: Mood-altering psychiatric drugs - taken every day by
tens of millions of Americans, including millions of children - actually
can push some users over the edge into mania, suicide and horrific
violence.
The issue is titled "MANIA: The shocking truth about psychiatric drugs and
their link to suicide, violence and mass murder."
To begin with, many of the most notorious mass killers in recent memory
have been on, or just coming off, prescription mood-altering drugs.
Remember these headline names?
a.. Andrea Yates, in one of the most heartbreaking crimes in modern
history, drowned all five of her children - aged 7 years down to 6
months - in a bathtub. Insisting inner voices commanded her to kill her
kids, she had become increasingly psychotic over the course of several
years.
Yates had been taking the antidepressant Effexor. In November 2005, more
than four years after Yates drowned her children, Effexor manufacturer
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals quietly added "homicidal ideation" to the drug's
list of "rare adverse events." But "rare" is defined by the FDA as
occurring in less than one in 1,000 people. And since, according to an
Associated Press report, about 19.2 million prescriptions for Effexor were
filled in the U.S. alone in 2005, that means statistically almost 20,000
Americans could experience "homicidal ideation" - that is, murderous
thoughts - as a result of taking just this one antidepressant drug.
Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking the widely prescribed
antidepressant Luvox when he and fellow student Dylan Klebold went on a
hellish school shooting rampage in 1999, killing 12 students and a teacher
and wounding 24 others before turning their guns on themselves.
b.. Dr. Peter Breggin, a top expert on the adverse effects of
psychiatric drugs, has analyzed in detail "the clinical and scientific
reasons for believing that Eric Harris's violence was caused by prescribed
Luvox."
Beyond showing how meds like Luvox can cause "command auditory
hallucinations" and many other scary, suicidal and homicidal "rare adverse
events," Breggin cites Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals as
conceding that 4 percent of children and youth taking Luvox developed
mania during short-term controlled clinical trials.
"Mania," explains Breggin, "is a psychosis which can produce bizarre,
grandiose, highly elaborated destructive plans, including mass murder."
c.. Authorities investigating Cho Seung-Hui, who murdered 32 at Virginia
Tech in April, reportedly found "prescription drugs" for the treatment of
psychological problems among his possessions. Joseph Aust, Cho's roommate,
told the Richmond Times-Dispatch Cho's routine each morning had included
taking prescription drugs.
And while the autopsy report says no drugs were found in Cho's
bloodstream on the day of the murders, April 16, Breggin says Cho could
well "have been tipped over into violent madness weeks or months earlier
by a drug like Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft."
Cho's medical records have yet to be released to the public -
authorities claiming it's because a criminal investigation is ongoing,
while Breggin suspects "maybe they're protecting drug companies," citing
the serious problems withdrawal from psychiatric drugs have been known to
cause.
d.. Patrick Purdy's 1989 schoolyard shooting rampage in Stockton,
Calif., was the catalyst for the legislative frenzy to ban "semiautomatic
assault weapons" in California and the nation. The 25-year-old Purdy, who
murdered five children and wounded 30, had been on Amitriptyline, an
antidepressant, as well as the antipsychotic drug Thorazine.
e.. Kip Kinkel, 15, murdered his parents in 1998 and the next day went
to his school, Thurston High in Springfield, Ore., and opened fire on his
classmates, killing two and wounding 22 others. He had been prescribed
both Prozac and Ritalin.
f.. In 1988, 31-year-old Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a
second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Ill., killing one child and wounding
six. She had been taking the antidepressant Anafranil as well as Lithium,
long used to treat mania.
g.. In Paducah, Ky., in late 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal, son of a
prominent attorney, traveled to Heath High School and started shooting
students in a prayer meeting taking place in the school's lobby, killing
three and leaving another paralyzed. Carneal reportedly was on Ritalin.
h.. In 2005, 16-year-old Native American Jeff Weise, living on
Minnesota's Red Lake Indian Reservation, shot and killed nine people and
wounded five others before killing himself. Weise had been taking Prozac.
i.. In another famous case, 47-year-old Joseph T. Wesbecker, just a
month after he began taking Prozac, shot 20 workers at Standard Gravure
Corp. in Louisville, Ky., killing nine. Eli Lilly, which makes Prozac,
later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors.
All very interesting, you may be thinking, but what do the drug companies
say in their defense?
One of the most widely prescribed antidepressants today is Paxil,
manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline.
Paxil's known "adverse drug reactions" - according to the drug's own 2001
FDA-approved label - include "mania," "insomnia," "anxiety," "agitation,"
"confusion," "amnesia," "depression," "paranoid reaction," "psychosis,"
"hostility," "delirium," "hallucinations," "abnormal thinking,"
"depersonalization" and "lack of emotion," among others.
With a rap sheet like that, no wonder pharmaceutical companies are nervous
about liability lawsuits over the "rare adverse effects" of their
medications. In 1998, for example, GlaxoSmithKline was ordered to pay $6.4
million to Donald Schnell's surviving family members after the 60-year-old
man, just two days after taking Paxil, murdered his wife, daughter and
granddaughter in a fit of rage.
But reporting the truth about the relationship between psychiatric
medications and mass murderers is just the beginning. "MANIA" also reveals
clear and compelling evidence that psychiatric drugs hurt children
physically - causing shrinkage of their brains, damage to their hearts and
other significant effects.
Perhaps even more disconcerting, "MANIA" exposes the federal government's
bizarre preoccupation with screening all American school kids to see if
they're mentally ill - a process that often leads directly to a
prescription for mood-altering drugs for the child who didn't answer the
questions properly.
"The problem," said David Kupelian, managing editor of WND and
Whistleblower, "is that many Americans don't exactly trust the federal
government to determine what constitutes 'mental health.'" Incredibly, as
this issue reveals, there is even a government effort to proclaim an
infant-and-toddler mental health crisis!
With the numbers of people taking prescription psychiatric medications in
the tens of millions and growing every day, this issue will touch
virtually every reader in a profound way.
"I think this is one of the most important and frankly mind-boggling
editions of Whistleblower we've ever produced," said Kupelian. "The
information in it could very well be life-changing - or even life-saving."
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