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Titolo: PSICOFARMACI: EFFETTO COLLATERALE SUICIDIO , 227 MILIONI DI PRESCRIZIONI NEL 2006 SOLO USA

Psicofarmaci: Effetto collaterale suicidio compreso, 227 milioni 
prescrizioni nel 2006
Cifre da capogiro, si fanno avanti i risultati, che neanche tutti i 
Gulag del passato messi assieme potevano fare di meglio . I medici, 
sopratutto della  neuropsichiatria & psichiatria  la coppia per 
eccellenza della insanità mentale al mondo figurano tra gli  assassini 
nei primi posti. Neanche la seconda guerra mondiale è riuscita a 
decimare tante persone come lo fanno queste due pseudo-scienze. Appare 
evidente che i principi di Etica Medica non si sono soffermate a lungo 
presso questo ramo della salute.  I psicofarmaci o meglio le 
psico-pillole,  tutte le droghe derivate dal laboratorio di questi due 
colossi,  le pratiche di Terapia Elettroconvulsivante (TEC)  sono 
riusciti ancora una volta a dimostrare la crudeltà presente all'interno 
di questi colossi.
Quasi giornalmente succede qualcosa oltre oceano, eppure i rotocalchi 
gridano solo quando una star di Hollywood come Heath Ledger viene 
trovata imbottita di queste psico-pillole trovato morto nel letto, 
vicino al cadavere  ad una confessione di prova, e l'evidenza dei fatti.
Radio America come host  e il moderatore Rush Limbaugh, era  in lacrime 
di fronte al microfono vicino ad una confessione di prova -  fu anche 
lui a commentare la tragedia di Patrick Kennedy il quale grazie a delle 
droghe ancora sconosciute è riuscito a schiantarsi  con la sua berlina 
nelle  barricate di calcestruzzo del  Congresso U. S.  vicino alla 
stazione. Tutti e tre erano consapevoli, di aver abusato di droghe 
legali le quali avevano funzionato.  Poiché la società americana è 
sempre più sotto pressione dei farmaci e sostanze stupefacenti derivate 
– la mente sotto questi stupefacenti diventa molto sfuocata e i confini 
delle proprie realtà non sono piu' visibili.
Solo raramente è più di un massimale di America's segreti meglio 
conservati rivelato. Succede solo quando una star di Hollywood come 
Heath Ledger trovato morto nel letto, o la radio ospitante 
erzkonservative Rush Limbaugh in lacrime di fronte al microfono vicino 
ad una confessione di prova - se un membro o con grandi nomi come 
Patrick Kennedy absentminded nel calcestruzzo barricate prima che il 
Congresso U. S. gare. Tutti e tre erano in comune, che esse sono 
coerenti con l'abuso di droghe legali avevano funzionato. Poiché la 
società statunitense è sempre più sotto i farmaci e sostanze 
stupefacenti - in cui i confini minacciano di sfocatura.
Anche un bagno di sangue ieri nel tribunale di Landshut, nel Sud della 
Germania: gente che usciva in strada con la faccia insanguinata, grida e 
disperazione. L’inferno si è scatenato quando Franz N., un pensionato di 
60 anni, ha aperto il fuoco uccidendo la cognata e poi suicidandosi. Una 
questione di ereditàL’ex cuoco era coinvolto in un processo nel quale 
sette fratelli litigano da anni per la proprietà di una casa ad Augusta. 
La convocazione di ieri poteva essere determinante per una sorta di 
conciliazione, spiega il Bild (giornale tedesco) . Durante una pausa del 
dibattimento, l’uomo ha estratto un revolver fuori dall’aula e ha 
esploso diversi colpi anche contro la cognata e il suo avvocato. La 
donna è stata colpita alla testa ed è morta poco dopo. Subito dopo 
Franz N ha chiuso lui stesso la sua propria vita, la scientifica ha pure 
trovato psicofarmaci in questo litigio di eredità.
Nel frattempo in Germania ci sono più di 150.000 bambini che ricevono 
queste sostanze psicotrope dagli psichiatri o dai medici di famiglia. 
Gli psichiatri hanno raggiunto un nuovo record per quanto riguarda il 
numero di disturbi “inventati” per i bambini tra cui, ADHD, 
disortografia, discalculia, dislessia, disgrafia. Dei bambini in 
perfetta salute possono essere etichettati come malati mentali e 
sottoposti a cure con pericolose sostanze psicotrope. “Dato il nuovo 
record di dosi di farmaci pericolosi somministrati ai bambini in 
Germania, è giunto il momento che i medici, genitori, politici e mass 
media affrontino il problema delle sostanze psicotrope e della violenza 
indotta dalle stesse per vietare queste pratiche psichiatriche 
distruttive” ha riportato l'ispettore incaricato del caso di Winnenden 
anche in germania al momento del massacro di neanche 2 mesi fa, dove uno 
studente aveva ucciso 15 persone, prima di suicidarsi sotto effetto di 
psico-pillole.  I medici psichiatri di questo caso sono accusati per 
negligenza per morte in 16 casi.
Ora le cifre riportate dei Stati Uniti:
La cifra d'affari delle imprese di psicofarmaci negli Usa nei ultimi 
decenni sono letteralmente esplose solo tra il 1997 e 2006 le 
statistiche sono aumentate da  7,9 miliardi fino a 25 miliardi  di 
dollari, ( pari a 17,3 miliardi di Euro) , nel 2004 ufficialmente 33 
milioni di persone ne hanno fatto uso di queste psico-pillole, nel 1997 
21 milioni , nel 2006 secondo il „Washington Post“ 227 milioni di 
ricette per PsichoPharma o pico-pillole scritte, 30 milioni in piu' che 
nel 2002. E queste sono solo le cifre ufficiali si stima che attraverso 
la cifra d'affari dei vari shop online dove è possibile reperire queste 
pillole annualmente se ne aggiungono ancora dai 5-8 milioni non prescritte.
Dallo studio effettuato dal 1997 al 2002 su 288 pazienti i quali 
assumevano questi psicofarmaci la stragrande maggioranza divennero 
diabetici,  75 erano ammalati gravi e 23 sono morti, vale a dire una 
mortalità media del 12.5% con le pillole in questione.  E' presto 
calcolato se ipotesi dal 2006 le cifre fossero rimaste ferme, abbiamo un 
buon 1000 milioni di persone alle quale sono stati prescritti 
psicofarmaci nei ultimi 4 anni.
Non osiamo ancora aggiungere le cifre di persone morte nel passato come 
Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday , Brian Douglas Wilson , Earl Rudolph 
“Bud” Powell", Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac) , Phil Hartman (Saturday 
Night Live ) , o i Serial Killer trattati dalla psichiatria scappati 
come  Andrea Yates , Mamoru Takuma , Eric Harris , David Hawkins , 
Edmund Kemper III , Jeremy Strohmeyer ,  le statistiche delle lobotomia 
la ricerca di Lisbona non oso presentarle anche se magari di tanti 
numeri , una febbre suina la farebbe apparire una semplice goccia nel 
mezzo di tanta decimazione, e pensare che sono solo le cifre americane.
Vogliamo sponsorizzare con milioni di euro di soldi pubblici questi 
venditori di morte?
Vogliamo mantenere al ritmo di milioni di euro annui le loro 
prescrizioni di psicofarmaci in carico al Servizio Sanitario Nazionale 
che uccidono la gente?
Fonte: Bild.de  
corriere.it
Citizens Commission on Human Rights International 
http://www.ccdu.org/pubblicazioni.html
 ( lo studio dei 288 soggetti)
Url: 
http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/murder1.html
http://www.focus.de/gesundheit/ratgeber/psychologie/news/tid-11900/medikamentenmissbrauch-psychopillen-fuer-kinder-und-krieger_aid_334952.html
http://www.focus.de/schlagwoerter/themen/a/antidepressiva
http://www.focus.de/gesundheit/news/depressionsmittel-lasche-pillen-waechter_aid_333099.html
ps: ci sono errori di grammatica?

 
U.S. POPClock Projection
http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html
According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the resident population of 
the United States, projected to 04/30/09 at 19:58 GMT (EST+5) is
306,324,270
COMPONENT SETTINGS FOR APRIL 2009
	One birth every..................................   8 seconds
	One death every..................................  12 seconds
	One international migrant (net) every............  35 seconds
	Net gain of one person every.....................  13 seconds
Popolazione USA:                 306'324'270
Ricette pillole consegnate 2006: 227'000'000
Mortalità delle pillole:      12.5%
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
 say 227 packages
Der Umsatz mit Psychopharmaka in den USA ist in den vergangenen 
Jahrzehnten explodiert: Allein zwischen 1997 und 2006 stieg er laut 
Statistik von 7,9 Milliarden auf 25 Milliarden Dollar (17,3 Milliarden 
Euro). 2004 nutzten laut offiziellen Angaben rund 33 Millionen Menschen 
solche Pillen – 1997 waren es 21 Millionen. 2006 wurden laut „Washington 
Post“ 227 Millionen Rezepte für Antidepressiva ausgeschrieben, 30 
Millionen mehr als 2002.
http://www.focus.de/gesundheit/ratgeber/psychologie/news/tid-11900/medikamentenmissbrauch-psychopillen-fuer-kinder-und-krieger_aid_334952.html
Google key from: 
http://www.cchr.org/#/psych-drugs/psych-drugs-the-creation-of-senseless-violence
It is a horribly sobering realization that the school shooting spree on 
April 20, 1999, at Columbine, Colorado, while devastating in its 
consequences, is only one incident in a tragic trail of incomprehensible 
acts of mayhem and murder. You need only read a newspaper or watch a 
television news broadcast to know that schools are not the only place 
these assaults have taken place. A review of media reports from the last 
fifteen years reveals that these incidents are also occurring on our 
highways, in restaurants, post offices, homes and factories from coast 
to coast. While the number of these incidents continues to escalate, a 
more disturbing fact is the increasingly bizarre nature of these 
pointless murders and suicides.
Acts of criminal violence have been with us since time immemorial but 
what we have been witnessing over the last couple of decades staggers 
the mind and assaults the senses. These grotesque acts, devoid of any 
possible sense of moral decency, strike us as completely 
incomprehensible. Mothers blowing the brains out of their small 
children, fathers slashing their young children to pieces, employees 
calmly walking through their offices or factories murdering their 
coworkers, and young children going on maniacal shooting sprees in 
schoolyards.
As each new incident is reported, we sit in stunned horror in front of 
our television sets and wonder what is happening to our way of life.
How can we be at the dawn of the twenty-first century with technology 
hurtling us into a space age future and yet continue to find ourselves 
without a solution to the escalating number of acts of random, senseless 
violence? The reason is that we have been fed all manner of wrong 
reasons for why these tragedies have taken place and so they continue.
It is not guns that are the common denominator to these horrific events. 
Some occur with knives, axes and even automobiles. Nor is it clothing, 
age, gender or political orientation. The fact missed by most is that 
psychiatric, mind-altering drugs have been found to be the common factor 
in an overwhelming number of these acts of random senseless violence. 
These drugs, on an ever increasing rise in society and amongst 
schoolchildren, particularly over the last two decades, are actually 
creating acts of violence. In 1997, sales of psychotropic drugs topped 
$1.5 billion, double the figure of two years earlier.1 In short, the 
rise in senseless violence in America is date-coincident with the 
increased use of psychiatric mind-altering drugs.
Consider the following:
In the US alone, there are now approximately four million children on 
the psychiatric drug Ritalin, a drug which the Drug Enforcement Agency 
(DEA) places in the same category (a schedule II narcotic) as opium, 
morphine and cocaine.2
Ritalin is the amphetamine-like drug widely prescribed to children for 
the contrived mental disease, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 
(ADHD).3
Even Ritalin's manufacturer warns that frank psychotic episodes can 
occur with abusive use, while the American Psychiatric Association's 
(APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders states that 
the major complication of Ritalin withdrawal is suicide.4
If this were not bad enough, more than 909,000 children and adolescents 
between the ages of six and eighteen are on psychiatric antidepressant 
drugs.5
It is important to note that between 1988 and 1992 alone there were 
reports of more than 90 children and adolescents who had suffered 
suicidal or violent self-destructive behavior while on the newer 
antidepressant Prozac, an SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor).6
However, as the following will clearly show, the connection between 
psychiatric drugs, violence and suicide is far from being limited to 
children.
It is not as if psychiatrists don't know.
The scientific research documenting the connection between violence, 
suicide and psychiatric drugs is overwhelming.
Perhaps most revealing is the statement by Candace B. Pert, Research 
Professor at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, as 
published in the October 20, 1997 issue of Time magazine. Professor Pert 
stated: I am alarmed at the monster that Johns Hopkins neuroscientist 
Solomon Snyder and I created when we discovered the simple binding assay 
for drug receptors 25 years ago…. The public is being misinformed about 
the precision of these selective Serotonin-uptake inhibitors when the 
medical profession oversimplifies their action in the brain…7
Brief excerpts from some of the numerous studies documenting the 
violence/suicide connection follow:
(1) Testing revealed that Eric Harris, one of the dead suspects in the 
Columbine incident, had therapeutic levels of Luvox in his blood. On May 
4, 1999, ABC's affiliate in Colorado reported that Luvox is the trade 
name for fluvoxamine, which research shows can induce mania. This is 
substantiated in an American Journal of Psychiatry article entitled 
Mania and Fluvoxamine which states the drug can induce mania in some 
persons when it is given at normal doses.
Additionally, a study by researchers at Hadassah-Hebrew University 
School of Medicine in Jerusalem, published in the Annals of 
Pharmacotherapy, concluded the following about Luvox: Our case series 
suggests that fluvoxamine may have the ability to induce or unmask manic 
behavior in depressed patients. Clinicians are alerted to monitor for 
this switching effect… 8
(2) A psychiatrist and drug expert states: According to the 
manufacturer, Solvay, 4% of children and youth taking Luvox developed 
mania during short-term controlled clinical trials. Mania is a psychosis 
which can produce bizarre, grandiose, highly elaborated destructive 
plans, including mass murder… 9
(3) The New York Post reported on January 31, 1999, that they had 
obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act showing that 
the New York Psychiatric Institute was testing Prozac on 6-year-olds. 
The psychiatric researchers own documents noted that some patients have 
been reported to have an increase in suicidal thoughts and/or violent 
behavior. Another side effect: wild manic episodes, was also 
acknowledged in the researchers records. 10
(4) A study conducted at Yale University School of Medicine and 
published in The Journal of The American Academy of Child and Adolescent 
Psychiatry in March, 1991, found that self-injurious ideation or 
behavior started or intensified during treatment with an antidepressant 
in six patients, ages 10 to 17, who were among 42 patients being studied. 11
(5) A study published in The Journal of Forensic Science in September, 
1998, found that of 392 youth suicides in Paris between 1989 and 1996, 
35% used to take psychoactive drugs. 12
(6) A 1995 Nordic conference reported that the new antidepressant drugs, 
in particular, have a stimulating amphetamine-like effect and consumers 
of these drugs can become aggressive or suffer hallucinations and/or 
suicidal thoughts. 13
(7) One Canadian research team which studied the effects of psychiatric 
drugs on prisoners found that violent, aggressive incidents occurred 
significantly more frequently in inmates who were on psychotropic 
(psychiatric or mind-altering) medication than when these inmates were 
not on psychotropic drugs. [emphasis added] Inmates on major 
tranquilizers were shown to be more than twice as violent as they were 
when not taking psychiatric drugs. 14
(8) A paper published in The American Journal of Psychiatry in 1964 
found that major tranquilizers (Thorazine, Haldol, Mellaril, etc.) can 
produce an acute psychotic reaction in an individual not previously 
psychotic.15 [emphasis added]
(9) In 1970, a textbook on the side effects of psychiatric drugs pointed 
out the potential for violence from these drugs stating: "Indeed, even 
acts of violence such as murder and suicide have been attributed to the 
rage reactions induced by chlordiazepoxide (Librium) and diazepam 
(Valium)." 16
(10) Valium was later replaced by Xanax as the most widely prescribed 
minor tranquilizer. According to a 1984 study of Xanax, extreme anger 
and hostile behavior emerged from 8 of the first 80 patients we treated 
with alprazolam (Xanax). 17
(11) A 1985 investigation into Xanax, reported in The American Journal 
of Psychiatry, said that 58% of the treated patients experienced serious 
discontrol, i.e., violence and loss of control compared with only 8% who 
were given a placebo. 18
(12) A 1975 paper described a negative effect from the major 
tranquilizers called akathisia (from the Greek a meaning without or not 
and kathisia meaning sitting) that was first recognized as an inability 
of people taking the drugs to sit still comfortably.19
(13) In his paper, The Many Faces of Akathisia, researcher Theodore Van 
Putten reported nearly half of the 110 persons in the study had 
experienced akathisia. He described what happened to these people after 
taking the drugs. One woman started to bang her head against the wall 
three days after an injection of a major tranquilizer. Another who had 
been given these drugs for five days experienced an upsurge in 
hallucinations, screaming, even more bizarre thinking, aggressive and 
also self-destructive outbursts, and agitated pacing or dancing, while 
still another stated that while on the drug she felt hostile, hated 
everybody and heard voices taunting her. 20
(14) Dr. William Wirshing, a psychiatrist at UCLA, reported at the 
American Psychiatric Associations 1991 annual meeting that five patients 
appeared to have developed akathisia from Prozac. Dr. Wirshing believed 
the akathisia had led them all to contemplate suicide. 21
(15) In 1986, a study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry 
found that patients taking the drug Elavil, an antidepressant, …appeared 
progressively more hostile, irritable, and behaviorally impulsive…. The 
increase in demanding behavior and assaultive acts was statistically 
significant. 22
(16) A study of children taking Elavil published in Psychosomatics in 
1980, found that some grew hysterical or hostile. One of the kids began 
exhibiting excessive irritability and anger, pacing excessively and 
declaring that he was not afraid anymore, that he was not chicken 
anymore. 23
(17) Another article published in The American Journal of Forensic 
Psychiatry in 1985 described five cases of extreme acts of physical 
violence due to akathisia caused by Haldol. These cases included acts of 
extreme, senseless, bizarre and brutal violence. 24
The argument is sometimes made that acts of violence occur because the 
individual was not taking his/her medication. This is a red herring 
forwarded in the media by psychiatric interests to take attention off 
the drugs as a creator of violence. It is the drugs themselves that 
create these states. Several studies illustrate this point.
(18) In February of 1990, Dr. Marvin Teicher, a Harvard psychiatrist, 
reported in The American Journal of Psychiatry that six patients, who 
were depressed, but not suicidal, had developed intense, violent, 
suicidal preoccupation within weeks of taking Prozac. 25
Subsequent letters from doctors published in The American Journal of 
Psychiatry and The New England Journal of Medicine reported similar 
findings. The New England Journal of Medicine report noted that patients 
had not been suicidal before taking the drug and that their suicidal 
thoughts ended abruptly upon ceasing its use.26
(19) In 1995, nine Australian psychiatrists urged SSRIs be sold with a 
warning after patients had slashed themselves or become preoccupied with 
violence when taking them. "I didn't want to die, I just felt like 
tearing my flesh to pieces."Ᾱ one patient told them. Another said, "I 
got my cane cutters knife in my right hand and wanted to cut my left 
hand off at the wrist." The self destructive harm started after the 
treatment began or doses increased, and eased or ceased when the drugs 
were stopped.27
(20) A 1988 study documented the tendency of the major tranquilizer 
Haldol to increase hostile and violent behavior. According to the study, 
many persons who had no history of violence prior to being placed on the 
drug were significantly more violent on haloperidol (Haldol). In this 
study, the researchers attributed the marked increase in violence to 
akathisia. 28
(21) A report published in The Journal of the American Medical 
Association exemplified the agitation which can accompany akathisia. 
Describing a man who had started taking Haldol four days previously, the 
researcher noted that the man …became uncontrollably agitated, could not 
sit still, and paced for several hours. [emphasis added] After 
complaining of violent urges to assault anyone near him, the man 
assaulted and tried to kill his dog. 29
Another little known fact is that withdrawal from psychiatric drugs can 
turn people horrifically violent. The fact that these drugs can create 
this effect can be obscured because frequently after a violent crime has 
been committed, psychiatrists or their allied organizations such as the 
pharmaceutical company-funded National Alliance for the Mentally Ill 
(NAMI), blame the offending persons violent behavior on his failure to 
continue his medication. However, the truth is that extreme violence is 
a documented side-effect of withdrawal from psychiatric drugs.
(22) In 1995, a Danish medical study reported the following withdrawal 
symptoms from psychotropic drug dependence: Emotional changes: Fear, 
terror, panic, fear of insanity, failing self-confidence, restlessness, 
irritability, aggression, an urge to destroy and, in the worst cases, an 
urge to kill.30
(23) In 1996, the National Preferred Medicines Center Inc., comprised of 
New Zealand physicians, issued a report on Acute Drug Withdrawal, saying 
that withdrawal from psychoactive drugs can cause 1) rebound effects 
that exacerbate previous symptoms of a disease, and 2) new symptoms 
unrelated to the condition that had not been previously experienced by 
the patient. The antidepressants can create agitation, severe 
depression, hallucinations, aggressiveness, hypomania and akathisia. 31
Janet, a teenager who was prescribed minor tranquilizers and 
antidepressants, said that while withdrawing from these drugs, she had 
violent thoughts and had to restrain her aggressiveness, including 
wanting to stab anyone who withheld the decreasing drug dosage from her: 
"I had absolutely no history of violence. These new feelings were not 
part of the so-called mental illness I was suppose to have; I had never 
been aggressive before being prescribed the drugs. Once safely and 
gradually withdrawn from them, I never experienced uncontrollable 
violent urges again." 32
As noted earlier, even the APA euphemistically admits in their 
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual that the major complication of 
withdrawal from Ritalin, a psychiatric drug currently being administered 
to millions of children, is suicide.
Withdrawal effects from these drugs can be severe and take intense 
medical supervision to ensure the person safely detoxes. As an example, 
Stevie Nicks, of the rock group Fleetwood Mac, talks about the intense 
difficulty of detoxing from psychiatric drugs: "I'm the one who realized 
that that's what was killing me [the psychiatric drug, Klonopin]". It 
took her 45 days to withdraw from the Klonopin. "I was in there sick for 
45 days, really, really sick. And I watched generations of drug addicts 
come in and go out. You know, the heroin people, 12 days …and they're 
gone. And I'm still just there." 33
Viewed against this research and the dramatic increase in the use of 
mind-altering drugs by children and adults alike, the cause for the rise 
of senseless violence becomes all too clear.
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) International has a database 
of hundreds of cases of violence that span the last 15 years. The 
following are but a few examples:
(1) On March 6, 1985, Atlanta postal worker Steven W. Brownlee, pulled a 
pistol from his pocket and shot and killed a supervisor and a clerk. 
Another clerk was wounded. Brownlee had received treatment and 
psychotropic drugs at the Grady Memorial Psychiatric Unit. 34
(2) On November 20, 1986, 14-year-old Rod Mathews beat a classmate to 
death with a bat in the woods near his home in Canton, Massachusetts. He 
had been prescribed Ritalin since the third grade. 35
(3) William Cruse was charged with killing six people in a shooting 
rampage on April 23, 1987, in Palm Bay, Florida. Cruse had been seeing a 
Kentucky psychiatrist and stated he had been taking psychiatric drugs 
for several years. 36
(4) Bartley Dobben killed his two young children on November 26, 1987, 
by casting them in a 1,300 degree foundry ladle. He had been placed on a 
regimen of psychiatric drugs in 1985. 37
(5) On May 20, 1988, Laurie Dann walked into a Winnetka, Illinois second 
grade classroom carrying three pistols and began shooting innocent 
little children, killing one and wounding five others before killing 
herself. Subsequent blood tests revealed that both Lithium and the 
antidepressant Anafranil were in her bloodstream at the time the murder 
was committed.38
(6) On September 26, 1988, 19-year-old James Wilson took a .22 caliber 
revolver into an elementary school in Greenwood, South Carolina, and 
started shooting schoolchildren, killing two 8-year-old girls and 
wounding seven other children and two teachers. Wilson had been in and 
out of the hands of psychiatrists for years and within eight months of 
the killings he had been on several psychiatric drugs which can generate 
violent behavior. Since the age of 14 he had been given psychiatric 
drugs, including Xanax, Valium, Thorazine and Haldol. 39
(7) On January 17, 1989, Patrick Purdy opened fire on a school yard full 
of young children in Stockton, California. During his vicious and 
unprovoked assault, Purdy killed five schoolchildren and wounded thirty 
others before killing himself. During the two years prior to the murders 
of the Stockton children, Purdy had been on two strong psychiatric drugs 
of categories known to cause violence. 40
(8) On April 28, 1992, Kenneth Seguin drugged his two children, aged 7 
and 5, took them to a pond, slashed their wrists and dumped their bodies 
in the water. He then drove home and killed his wife with an ax while 
she slept. He was on Prozac at the time. 41
(9) In November 1992, Lynwood Drake III, in San Luis Obisbo and Morro 
Bay, California, shot and killed six people with a hand gun before he 
killed himself. Metabolized Prozac and Valium were both found in his 
system. 42
(10) In December 1993, Steven Leith of Chelsea, Michigan, walked back 
into a school meeting and fatally shot the school superintendent and 
wounded two others including a fellow teacher. He was on Prozac at the 
time of the shootings. 1343>
(11) Sixteen-year-old Brian Pruitt, who fatally stabbed his grandparents 
in 1995, had a history of psychiatric treatment and had been prescribed 
psychiatric drugs. 44
(12) On November 3, 1995, Sergeant Steven B. Christian, a 
twenty-five-year commended veteran of the Dallas police force drove to a 
police sub-station and seriously wounded an officer outside in his 
attempt to get inside and shoot others. Christian was shot and killed by 
two fellow Dallas police officers. The autopsy revealed high levels of 
an antidepressant in his blood. 45
(13) In Connecticut on March 6, 1998, Mathew Beck, a lottery accountant, 
reported promptly to his job, hung up his coat and methodically gunned 
down four of his bosses, one of whom he chased through a parking lot 
before he turned the gun on himself. Beck had been seeing a psychiatrist 
and taking three types of "medication." 46
(14) On May 28, 1998, Brynn Hartman murdered her husband, comic Phil 
Hartman, then committed suicide. She had been prescribed and had been 
taking the antidepressant drug Zoloft, which the coroner found in her 
system along with alcohol and cocaine. 47
(15) On February 19, 1996, 10-year-old Timmy Becton grabbed his 
3-year-old niece as a shield and aimed a shotgun at a Sheriff's deputy 
who had accompanied a truant officer to his Florida home. Becton had 
been taken to a psychiatrist in January and had been put on a 
psychiatric drug. 48
(16) While on vacation, on May 25, 1997, in Las Vegas, 18-year-old 
Jeremy Strohmeyer raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl in the ladies' 
rest room in a casino. He had been diagnosed with ADD and prescribed 
Dexedrine. He had begun taking the drug a week before the killing. 49
(17) On September 27, 1997, 16-year-old Sam Manzie raped and strangled 
another boy to death. At the time of the killing the younger boy had 
been selling candy door to door for the local PTA. Manzie was under 
psychiatric "care" and was being "medicated."50
(18) On May 21, 1998, 14-year-old Kip Kinkel shot and killed his parents 
and then went on a wild shooting spree at his Springfield, Oregon, high 
school that left two dead and twenty-two injured. He was reportedly 
taking Prozac and Ritalin and had been attending "anger management" 
classes. 51
(19) On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris, one of two Colorado high school 
seniors who went on a deadly rampage, entered his school shooting 
students and faculty and setting off explosives. Twelve students and one 
teacher were killed, along with the two gunmen who ended the rampage by 
killing themselves, while twenty-three others were wounded. A toxicology 
report revealed Luvox, an antidepressant, in Harris' system.52
(20) On May 4, 1999, Steven Allen Abrams rammed his car into a preschool 
playground in Costa Mesa, California, killing two and injuring five. He 
had been placed on probation in 1994 which required him to see a 
psychiatrist and take Lithium. 53
CONCLUSION
Horror stories all. On the surface, the idea of tranquilizers or 
antidepressants creating hostility and violence may not make sense. 
After all, they are supposed to make people calm and quiet. But the 
reality is that they can and do create such adverse effects. The 
scientific evidence, only a part of which is presented above, is 
overwhelming.
Psychiatric drugs and treatments do create violence and the sooner we 
recognize this and do something about it, the sooner these kinds of 
killings will stop.
These are facts that psychiatrists and the National Alliance for the 
Mentally Ill (NAMI) refuse to confront. Psychiatrists for obvious 
reasons—they could and should be held liable for crimes committed by 
their toxically drugged patients—and NAMI because, according to the New 
York Post, it "is awash in money from drug companies"--"$3.2 million per 
year from nine such companies"--that manufacture these often 
mind-crippling drugs. 54
The above is a small sample of hundreds of cases of murders, suicides, 
and senseless violence documented in the files of the Citizens 
Commission on Human Rights. Psychiatric drugs create violence. Not 
everyone who takes a psychiatric drug commits acts of violence, but 
clearly some do. The research is unequivocal. How many more Littleton, 
Colorados, will there be before something is done?
CCHR urges that government officials and/or law enforcement bodies, 
armed with the information contained in this report:
1) Hold legislative hearings to fully investigate the correlation 
between psychiatric drugs and violence (and suicide);
2) Call for mandatory toxicology reports that specify a testing for 
psychiatric drugs in anyone who has committed a homicide or serious 
violent crime;
3) Ensure that where psychiatric mind-altering drugs are implicated in 
such a crime, the psychiatrist prescribing the drugs be held accountable.
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34. Duane Riner, "Postal Worker Who Killed 2 in '85 to Go Free," The 
Atlanta Journal, 8 Aug. 1989.
35. Katy Corneel, "Parents find clue to why their son killed," The 
Patriot Ledger, 19 Sept. 1987; "15-year-old sentenced to life for 
killing classmate for kicks," Times Picayune, 11 Mar. 1988.
36. Lynne Bumpus-Hooper, "Cruse says he was insane during Palm Bay 
killings," Orlando (Florida) Sentinel, 7 Jul. 1987.
37. Jack F. Love, "How can state compel mentally ill to seek and 
maintain treatment?," Ann Arbor News, 16 Oct. 1989; "Psychiatrist says 
foundry-murder suspect suffered from 'delusions, strange behavior'," 
1989 news article.
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Sept. 1988; "School shooting probe continues," The Newton Kansan, 27 
Sept. 1988; "Psychiatric Drugs Create Killer," Freedom, Nov./Dec. 1988.
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Die In Shooting, Gunman Injures 30 Others, Then Kills Himself," The 
Sacramento Union, 18 Jan. 1989; "Chronological Life History of Patrick 
Edward Purdy," prepared by Special Agents Allen Benitez and Phil Lee, 
Bureau of Investigation, California, Dept. of Justice, 1989, p. 17.
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family," UP News Wire, 8 Jan. 1993.
42. CVT Central Valley Toxicology, Toxicology Report on drugs found in 
Lynwood Drake's system dated 13 Nov. 1992; Dave Wilcox, "Drake said to 
be suicidal, on drugs," The County Telegram-Tribune, 13 Nov. 1992.
43. Jeffri Chadiha, "Suspect was found with gun loaded," Ann Arbor News, 
19 Dec. 1993.
44. Ken Holloway, "Pruitt found guilty of murder," Commercial News, 
Danvill, IL, 15 Jun. 1996
45. Todd Bensman and Jason Sickles, "Police sergeant is killed after 
shooting officer," The Dallas Morning News, 5 Nov. 1995.
46. Jonathan Rabinovitz, "Father of Lottery Killer Agonizes Over Son's 
'Monstrous' Act," The New York Times, 9 Mar. 1998.
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Moore, "Hartman's Wife Had Alcohol, Cocaine in Her System, Coroner 
Finds," Los Angeles Times, 9 Jun. 1998.
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Special Reports, 
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, 19 Jul. 1998.
50. "Manzie to plead insane in killing of Jackson Township 11-year-old," 
The Boston Globe, Associated Press, 27 Apr. 1998.
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Examiner, Mau...@Vigo-Examiner.com; transcript of 20/20 national TV 
show reporting on the Kip Kinkel Oregon Shooting, 22 May 1998.
52. Patrick O'Driscoll, "Colo. prosecutors retract that an arrest is 
imminent," USA Today, 30 Apr. 1999; Robert Lusetich, "School killer was 
on drugs," The Australian, 30 Apr. 1999.
53. Peter Larsen and Tony Saavedra, "Investigation: The man wanted to 
exact revenge for his spurned advances toward a married neighbor, 
officials say," The Orange County Register, 5 May 1999.
54. Gregg Birnbaum, "Patients group getting $3M a year from firms," New 
York Post, 28 Feb. 1999.
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http://www.cchr.org/#/psych-drugs/psych-drugs-hooking-world-on-psych-drugs
While billions in tax dollars are paid each year to fight the War on 
Drugs, we have a different kind of drug war affecting the world today, 
one that is perpetuated by psychiatrists dreaming up new mental 
illnesses to fund a multibillion-dollar legal drug industry. The direct 
result continues to be an escalating, worldwide consumption of their 
addictive, mind-altering drugs.
Consider the following alarming statistics:
In the United States today, more than 6 million children are taking 
mind-altering psychiatric drugs for the learning and behavioral 
disorder, ADHD. Two million children take antidepressant and 
antipsychotic drugs.
In Australia, the stimulant prescription rate for children increased 
34-fold in the past two decades.
In Britain the rate increased 9,200% between 1992 and 2000; in Mexico 
methylphenidate sales (the generic name for the drug Ritalin) increased 
800% between 1993 and 2001.
In Germany methylphenidate sales increased 400% between 1995 and 1999.
Significant increases are also reported in France, Denmark, Sweden and 
Switzerland.
In 2000, international sales of antipsychotic drugs reached $6 billion. 
In 2001, antidepressant sales climbed to $12.5 billion. Today, that 
figure is near $20 billion.
These soaring numbers parallel the increases in the number of mental 
disorders in the American Psychiatric Associations lucrative insurance 
billing bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 
(DSM), and the mental disorders section of the International 
Classification of Diseases (ICD). Not one of the DSMs long list of 
disorders is supported by any objective, diagnostic observations or 
criteria.
As psychiatrist Matthew Dumont commented, the APA provides a 125-word 
definition of mental disorder, which is supposed to resolve all the 
issues surrounding the sticky problem of where deviance ends and 
dysfunction begins. It doesn't.
Because of the DSM, psychiatric drugs are now not only used extensively 
in our schools, nursing homes, drug rehabilitation centers and prisons, 
individuals personally rely on them to "help" them with everything from 
weight control, self-confidence, mathematical and writing problems, to 
anxiety, sleeping and upsets. In fact, they have become the panacea for 
the stresses of modern living. And they come with serious risks. Protect 
yourself from potentially dangerous psychiatric drugs by becoming well 
informed.

 
12 RECENT SCHOOL/TEEN SHOOTERS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS
Resulting in 54 Killed
And 105 Wounded
* Dekalb, Illinois – February 14, 2008: 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak 
shot and
killed five people and wounded 16 others before killing himself in a 
Northern
Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had 
recently been
taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had
trace amount of Xanax in his system.
* Omaha, Nebraska – December 5, 2007: 19-year-old Robert Hawkins killed
eight people and wounded five before committing suicide in an Omaha mall.
Hawkins’ friend told CNN that the gunman was on antidepressants, and autopsy
results confirmed he was under the influence of the “anti-anxiety” drug 
Valium.
* Jokela, Finland – November 7, 2007: 18-year-old Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric
Auvinen had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and
wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School in southern Finland, then
committed suicide.
* Cleveland, Ohio – October 10, 2007: 14-year-old Asa Coon stormed through
his school with a gun in each hand, shooting and wounding four before taking
his own life. Court records show Coon had been placed on the antidepressant
Trazodone.
* Blacksburg, Virginia – April 16, 2007: The psychiatric drug history of 
Seung-Hui
Cho in the Virginia Tech Massacre was never made public. Initial reports 
stated
that “depression medication” was found among Cho’s belongings. But neither
his toxicology reports, nor his recent medical history were ever 
released to find
out whether Cho had been in withdrawal from psychiatric medication. (33 were
killed and 29 injured, but this was not included in the total of dead 
and wounded
cited above.)
* Red Lake, Minnesota – March 2005: 16-year-old Jeff Weise, on Prozac, shot
and killed his grandparents, then went to his school on the Red Lake Indian
Reservation where he shot dead 7 students and a teacher, and wounded 7
before killing himself.
* Greenbush, New York – February 2004: 16-year-old Jon Romano strolled into
his high school in east Greenbush and opened fire with a shotgun. Special
education teacher Michael Bennett was hit in the leg. Romano had been taking
“medication for depression”.
* El Cajon, California – March 22, 2001: 18-year-old Jason Hoffman, on the
antidepressants Celexa and Effexor, opened fire on his classmates, wounding
three students and two teachers at Granite Hills High School.
* Williamsport, Pennsylvania – March 7, 2000: 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was
taking the antidepressant Prozac when she shot at fellow students, wounding
one.
* Conyers, Georgia – May 20, 1999: 15-year-old T.J. Solomon was being 
treated
with antidepressants when he opened fire on and wounded six of his 
classmates.
* Columbine, Colorado – April 20, 1999: 18-year-old Eric Harris and his
accomplice, Dylan Klebold, killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 26
others before killing themselves. Harris was on the antidepressant Luvox.
Klebold’s autopsy reports were never released.
* Notus, Idaho – April 16, 1999: 15-year-old Shawn Cooper fired two shotgun
rounds in his school, narrowly missing students. He was taking a prescribed
SSRI antidepressant and Ritalin.
* Springfield, Oregon – May 21, 1998: 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his
parents and then proceeded to school where he opened fire on students in the
cafeteria, killing two and wounding 22. Kinkel had been taking the
antidepressant Prozac.