"If lawmakers and authorities are truly concerned about stopping gun
violence in schools, they need to take a close look at the prescription
of psychotropic drugs for children and young people, says a leading
psychiatrist...
When roughly nine out of every 10 cases in these school shootings and
mass shootings involve these drugs being prescribed, then at least a
significant proportion of these cases were either caused by the drugs or
the drugs made a significant contribution to the problem...
Very few children have serious problems that warrant treatment with pills that have the risks SSRI drugs have. The drugs can make children aggressive and hostile...
We are giving drugs to children who are passing through critical
development stages, and as a society we are really conducting a vast
experiment and no one really knows what the outcome of that will be.
Independently, a sortable database of 4,800 cases in which SSRI drugs
have been associated with violent behavior in the U.S. and worldwide has been posted on the Internet, compiled from incidents that have appeared in the media, scientific journals and Federal Drug Administration testimony.
SSRI drugs covered in the sortable database include Prozac
(fluoxetine), Zoloft (sertraline), Paxil (paroxetine), Celexa
(citalopram), Lexapro (escitalopram) and Luvox (fluvoxamine).
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