Link between antidepressants and violence

[Jaytrain5]

I'm not a gun-owner...I don't see a need for me to own a gun. I do believe that improvements could be made in the regulation of gun purchases, but I don't see guns as the cause of the murders at Virginia Tech.

I do believe, however, that antidepressants are playing a major role in most of these irrational motivationless mass murders that we're seeing in America.

Consider:

- Kip Kinkel, 14, killed his parents and went on a shooting rampage at his Springfield, Ore., high school. He was taking Ritalin and Prozac.

-Jeff Weise, 16, killed 10 people before killing himself in a shooting rampage at his Minnesota high school. He was taking Prozac.

-Jeremy Strohmeyer raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl one week after he started taking Dexedrine.

-Columbine High School's Eric Harris was taking Luvox.

-T.J. Solomon, 15, who attended Heritage High School in Conyers, Ga., was taking Ritalin when he opened fire on his classmates, wounding six.

-The crime America may never recover from, the studied and deliberate drowning of all five of her children by a mother in Texas, was performed under the influence of "anti-depressants."

-So was the incredible stabbing murder of eight Japanese children in the first and second grades by a man on anti-depressants.

-Sam Manzie, 15, attacked, raped and strangled to death an 11-year-old boy selling items door to door for the PTA. He was on Paxil.

And we all know that Cho was taking antidepressants.

While I'm not claiming that these drugs can't provide some benefit, perhaps these drugs shouldn't be prescribed so haphazardly. The FDA has disclosed that antidepressants can cause suicide and aggressive behavior, and they continue to be a common denominator in these mass murders and suicides.

Thoughts?

 

[JZVOL]

I agree and you should have heard Michael Savage and a doctor he had on his show saying the same exact thing.

 

[utvolpj]

The drugs do not push and already messed up person to commit these acts. You came up with 9 examples that covered a span of many years in the US. How many thousands of murders have been committed in that time? Were there any other similarities between the killers? How many millions of people perform just fine on these drugs every day? I would say the percentage of the population that takes anti-depressants and commits murder is almost too small to matter. You could probably make a similar case for near-sightedness.

 

[Jaytrain5]

The drugs do not push and already messed up person to commit these acts. You came up with 9 examples that covered a span of many years in the US. How many thousands of murders have been committed in that time? Were there any other similarities between the killers? How many millions of people perform just fine on these drugs every day? I would say the percentage of the population that takes anti-depressants and commits murder is almost too small to matter. You could probably make a similar case for near-sightedness.

near-sightedness as a link to murder...you may be onto something.

You refer to the thousands of murders that occurred over this span of time, but I never linked antidepressents to single murders provoked by jealousy, revenge, etc....I linked anti-depressants to mass murderers who kill for no reason. How many mass murderers have you seen over this period of time who weren't taking an antidepressant? I think the evidence supports my point.

 

[Jaytrain5]

I would say the percentage of the population that takes anti-depressants and commits murder is almost too small to matter.

I'd say the percentage of gun-owning americans that commit mass murders is probably similar.

 

[utvolpj]

near-sightedness as a link to murder...you may be onto something.

You refer to the thousands of murders that occurred over this span of time, but I never linked antidepressents to single murders provoked by jealousy, revenge, etc....I linked anti-depressants to mass murderers who kill for no reason. How many mass murderers have you seen over this period of time who weren't taking an antidepressant? I think the evidence supports my point.

Mass murderers? In 2 of your examples only 1 person was killed and in 1 no one died. I think you need better examples to back up your claims. A better explanation is their overall mental-health, not the drugs they are taking.

 

[rwemyss]

You missed a case...

rwemyss banned a mass number of VN members. He was on Lexapro.

That hasn't happened yet? Oops...

 

[therealUT]

I'm not a gun-owner...I don't see a need for me to own a gun. I do believe that improvements could be made in the regulation of gun purchases, but I don't see guns as the cause of the murders at Virginia Tech.

I do believe, however, that antidepressants are playing a major role in most of these irrational motivationless mass murders that we're seeing in America.

Consider:

- Kip Kinkel, 14, killed his parents and went on a shooting rampage at his Springfield, Ore., high school. He was taking Ritalin and Prozac.

-Jeff Weise, 16, killed 10 people before killing himself in a shooting rampage at his Minnesota high school. He was taking Prozac.

-Jeremy Strohmeyer raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl one week after he started taking Dexedrine.

-Columbine High School's Eric Harris was taking Luvox.

-T.J. Solomon, 15, who attended Heritage High School in Conyers, Ga., was taking Ritalin when he opened fire on his classmates, wounding six.

-The crime America may never recover from, the studied and deliberate drowning of all five of her children by a mother in Texas, was performed under the influence of "anti-depressants."

-So was the incredible stabbing murder of eight Japanese children in the first and second grades by a man on anti-depressants.

-Sam Manzie, 15, attacked, raped and strangled to death an 11-year-old boy selling items door to door for the PTA. He was on Paxil.

And we all know that Cho was taking antidepressants.

While I'm not claiming that these drugs can't provide some benefit, perhaps these drugs shouldn't be prescribed so haphazardly. The FDA has disclosed that antidepressants can cause suicide and aggressive behavior, and they continue to be a common denominator in these mass murders and suicides.

Thoughts?

I am not in favor of anti-depressants. However, couldn't these statements just as easily prove that these people needed to be medicated? One could argue that they were not medicated enough.

 

[GAVol]

I am not in favor of anti-depressants. However, couldn't these statements just as easily prove that these people needed to be medicated? One could argue that they were not medicated enough.

Exactly .

 

[JZVOL]

FDA issues new antidepressant warnings - Mental Health - MSNBC.com

new FDA warning on antidepressants