Antidepressant's Role in School Shootings

In this post, Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, author and executive director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness talks about the link between antidepressants and violence. She says, "It's happening daily in this country. It's so massive, it's just unreal. We've got so many school shootings now, I can't even begin to keep up with them all. And the reason is so incredibly obvious. You don't have to look at much to figure it out."

Well, it seems that some people, including politicians and the medical profession, are slow to connect the dots. So to help them fill in the blanks, there are hundreds of cases listed on the coalition's web site, www.drugawareness.org. Check it out.

—data taken from, "Role of antidepressants in killings needs review," By Ty Phillips, Modesto Bee, www.modbee.com, April 30, 2007, 03:23:08 AM PDT

The Drugs Don't Work, Psychiatrists Say

Dr. Michael Corry, a consultant psychiatrist, said, "The psychiatric world has to be cleaned up - it's appalling." He said people taking Zyprexa and Seroxat get "totally overwhelmed by a sense of disinhibition, and they literally feel they can't go on, and they kill themselves."

A report from the National Parliament of Ireland (Oireachtas) stated that "the influence of the pharmaceutical industry is unhealthy" and that some drugs "were of doubtful benefit" and "where side effects are well known, they seem not to be appreciated or are ignored by prescribers".

—Data taken from The Sunday Independent (Ireland), "The drugs don't work, warn top psychiatrists," by Tom Prendeville

Drug $$ Influences Psychiatrists' Prescriptions

"From 2000 to 2005, drug maker payments to Minnesota psychiatrists rose more than sixfold, to $1.6 million. During those same years, prescriptions of antipsychotics for children in Minnesota’s Medicaid program rose more than ninefold."

Dr. Steven E. Hyman, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health and Harvard University provost said, There’s an irony that psychiatrists ask patients to have insights into themselves, but we don’t connect the wires in our own lives about how money is affecting our profession and putting our patients at risk."

—Data taken from, "Psychiatrists, Children and Drug Industry’s Role," By Gardiner Harris, Benedict Carey and Janet Roberts, May 10, 2007