Anti-depressants and massacres – Fox news investigates

I believe that anti-depressants can cause extreme violence.

I have written on the subject before. All too often it seemed that the only other people in the world who would ever begin to entertain the possibility were people such as Micheal Moore and Dr Peter Breggin in the USA – and in England David Healy, Andrew Herxheimer and David B. Menkes, who co-authored a paper on the subject in 2006 – Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law.

Now maybe the rest of the world is slowly starting to catch up. The video below is from ‘Hannity’s America’ on Fox News and was aired a couple of days ago. It explores links between extreme examples of violent behavior among teens on anti-depressants:

I suggest you also watch The Drugging of our Children – this feature-length documentary examines the alarming growth in the prescription of powerful psychotropic drugs for adolescents and children. Leading experts, as well as Neil Bush, Michael Moore and Gary Null, provide insightful commentary about the growing trend to pathologize the behavior of children, and then require them to take mind-altering pharmaceutical drugs as a “cure.” The documentary recounts the national tragedy of Columbine and focuses on the largely unknown fact that teenage shooter Eric Harris was on the psychotropic drug Luvox at the time he and Dylan Klebold took the lives of 13 other students at their high school. Violence and aggression, precipitated by prescribed drug use, is also explored in an unprecedented discussion between Mark Taylor, the first shooting victim in the Columbine tragedy, and Cory Baadsgard, a teenager on Paxil and Effexor who, in another violent incident, took his teacher and 23 students hostage at gunpoint in his Washington high school.

If you want more information, then you can read follow up with these links:

Nebraska shooting – antidepressant connection yet again?

Lost in translation – were Anti-Depressants Involved In Finland School Massacre?

A brief history of school shootings

The Finland Massacre

SSRI storiesAntidepressants and violence

Join up the dots?

Important new Paxil withdrawal documentary finally completed

Phil Lawrence, the film maker who filmed his withdrawal from Paxil (Seroxat) has just posted a trailer for his movie on the internet – thanks are due to Truthman30 for letting me know:

Phil summed things up really well a while back:“I’m starting to think that antidepressants are like the ‘perfect storm’ – everything came together to create the ultimate moneymaker. You’ve got the perfect consumers – people who desperately want and need help. You’ve got the perfect illness – one that cannot be scientifically proven and is subjectively diagnosed. You’ve got the perfect marketing scheme – huge advertising campaigns in magazines and on television that play directly on the consumer’s fears and desires to get better. And, you’ve got the perfect pushers – government regulators and a professional community that have bought into the whole thing hook, line and sinker. The result of this perfect storm is a tremendous amount of power and influence that allows the industry to keep the wave rolling.

It’s intimidating – and a little overwhelming to actually fight the storm and try to get someone to listen – or make a change, or for that matter, tell the truth – but at this point, what other choice do we have?”

Catch up on Phil and his documentary in my previous posts:

Corruption? Glaxo? FDA?

I’m not buying it. Not any more.

FDA hearings 2006

Update on Phil Lawrence and his Paxil withdrawal documentary…