- America seems shocked that, yet again, a young male would
pick up an assault rifle and murder his fellow citizens, then take his
own life. This is what happened last night in Omaha, Nebraska, where the
19-year-old Hawkins killed himself and eight other people with an assault
rifle. Those lacking keen observation skills are quick to blame guns for
this tragedy, but others who are familiar with the history of such violent
acts by young males instantly recognize a more sinister connection: A history
of treatment with psychiatric drugs for depression and ADHD.
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- It all started in Columbine, Colorado, when Eric Harris
and Dylan Klebold massacred their way into the history books on April 20,
1999 by killing 12 and wounding 23 people. The mainstream media virtually
glorified the event, yet utterly failed to report the connection between
violence in young men and treatment with psychiatric drugs. (Both Harris
and Klebold were taking antidepressant drugs.)
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- It's a little known fact that antidepressant drugs have
never been tested on children nor approved by the FDA for use on children.
It is well established in the scientific literature, however, that such
drugs cause young men to think violent thoughts and commit violent acts.
This is precisely why the U.K. has outright banned the prescribing of such
drugs to children. Yet here in the United States -- the capitol of gun
violence by kids on depression drugs -- the FDA and drug companies pretend
that mind-altering drugs have no link whatsoever to behavior.
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- Enormous evidence linking mind-altering drugs with violent
acts
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- In 2005, I reported on this site that Eli Lilly had full
knowledge of a 1200% increase in suicide risk for takers of their Prozac
drug, a popular anti-depressant SSRI medication. (See http://www.newstarget.com/003086.html
)
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- In 2006, we reported the results of a study published
in the Archives of General Psychiatry showing that teens taking antidepressant
drugs are more likely to commit suicide (and to be "successful"
at completing the act). See http://www.newstarget.com/020643.html
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- On September 11, 2006, I reported on the link between
antidepressant drugs and violent behavior yet again. (See http://www.newstarget.com/020394.html
) In that article, I explained, "If you're going to alter the brain
chemistry of these children, you had better be prepared for the results.
The result we're seeing now is mass killings. Elsewhere around the world,
where children aren't doped up on all these drugs, we don't see this kind
of behavior. This is what happens when you change children's brain chemistry;
you get these results..."
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- The very next day, we published a report about the anti-depressant
drug Paxil doubling the risk of violent behavior. (See http://www.newstarget.com/020406.html
) In that article, I stated, "This finding helps explain why school
shootings are almost always conducted by children who are taking antidepressants.
We also know that SSRIs cause children to disconnect from reality. When
you combine that with a propensity for violence, you create a dangerous
recipe for school shootings and other adolescent violence.
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- In April of this year, I also reported on the link between
antidepressant drugs and the Virginia Tech shooting. See http://www.newstarget.com/021798.html
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- What I said in that article has urgent application right
now, following the Omaha shooting:
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- A study published in the Public Library of Science Medicine
(an open source medical journal) explored these same links in detail. (See
Antidepressants
and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law, by David
Healy, Andrew Herxheimer, David B. Menkes)
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- The authors note that "Some regulators, such as
the Canadian regulators, have also referred to risks of treatment-induced
activation leading to both self-harm and harm to others" and the "United
States labels for all antidepressants as of August 2004 note that 'anxiety,
agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness,
impulsivity, akathisia (psychomotor restlessness), hypomania, and mania
have been reported in adult and pediatric patients being treated with antidepressants
for major depressive disorder as well as for other indications, both psychiatric
and nonpsychiatric'".
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- In other words, the link between antidepressants and
violence has been known for years by the very people manufacturing, marketing
or prescribing the drugs. As the author of the study mentioned above concluded,
"The new issues highlighted by these cases need urgent examination
jointly by jurists and psychiatrists in all countries where antidepressants
are widely used."
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- That was last year, well before this latest shooting.
The warning signs were there, and they've been visible for a long time.
Medical authorities can hardly say they are "shocked" by this
violent behavior. After all, the same pattern of violence among antidepressant
takers has been observed, documented and published in numerous previous
cases.
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- http://www.newstarget.com/020279.html
- (Click the cartoon for the full-sized version.)
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- Not surprised at what happened in Omaha
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- The people of Omaha may be surprised at what happened
there yesterday, but I'm not. Why? Because the shooter, Robert Hawkins,
had a history of being "treated" for both depression and ADHD
(Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). (Source: Associated Press)
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- And what is the standard American psychiatric "treatment"
for these conditions? Mind-altering drugs, of course.
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- ADHD, for example, is treated with a drug that used to
be an illegal street drug called "speed." It's an amphetamine,
and recent research published in the August, 2007 issue of the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry reveals that Ritalin and other
ADHD drugs actually stunt the growth of children, causing their brains
and bodies to be physically altered. (Seehttp://www.newstarget.com/021944.html
)
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- Depression, of course, is treated with SSRI drugs, none
of which have ever been safety approved by the FDA for use on children
or teens. In other words, the use of these drugs on teenagers is a grand,
mind-altering medical experiment, and what we just witnessed in Omaha is
one result of that experiment.
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- There will be more. I hate to be accurate about this
grisly prediction, because I grieve for the families of those lost to pharmaceutically-induced
violence, but the truth is that until we stop drugging our children with
psychotropic drugs, the shootings are not going to stop.
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- Big Pharma is to blame for this one, not the manufacturer
of the gun. That gun has a trigger, you see, and the trigger was pulled
by a finger. The finger was connected via a series of nerves to a brain,
and that brain was altered by psychotropic drugs. The brain wasn't functioning
like a normal, healthy, well-nourished brain; it was functioning like a
zoned out "zombie" brain permanently distorted by psychiatric
drugs.
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- Sending a teenager out into the public doped up on mind-altering
dru gs that we KNOW are linked to violence -- and jacked up on junk foods
(he worked at McDonald's) -- is a certain recipe for disaster. Big Pharma
executives, drug reps and the irresponsible psychiatrists who dish these
pills out to teenagers might as well have just walked right into the mall
and set off a bomb themselves. These are the people ultimately responsible
for the tragedy in Omaha. Hawkins may have pulled the trigger, but modern
psychiatry drugged him with violence-inducing chemicals. The fact that
such drugs promote violence isn't even disputed. It's printed right on
the warning labels of those drugs!
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- And as sad as this tragedy is for all those affected
by this medication-induced violence, the truly sad part is that America
still hasn't learned this lesson. If you drug the children with chemicals
that cause violence, you're going to see more shootings. It's as simple
as that. And if you take away the guns, you'll see bombs, knives or machetes
used in these attacks. When disturbed young boys are doped up on psychotropic
drugs that promote violence -- and they're drugged by the hundreds of thousands
-- it's like playing a national game of Russian roulette (with apologies
to Russia). Sooner or later, another kid whose mind has been altered by
Ritalin, Prozac or some other drug is going to walk into yet another school
or mall and start killing people. This kind of behavior is a direct product
of chemical-based psychiatric "treatment."
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- The criminals running modern psychiatry
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- In fact, I predict we'll see another such shooting in
the next 30 days, if not sooner. And yet, even with the increasing frequency
of these events, the unholy alliance between Big Pharma and the immensely
evil psychiatric industry will continue. Yet more children will be put
on mind-altering drugs that stunt their growth, alter their brain chemistry,
and turn them into mind-numbed massacre drones who acquire dangerous weapons
and open fire in public places.
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- The psychiatric industry, though, thinks that yet MORE
children need "treatment" with drugs for ADHD and depression.
In fact, an industry press release recently claimed that only one-third
of those children "suffering" from ADHD are receiving appropriate
"treatment" for the condition. Of course, those are just code
words for "drugging the children with high-profit pharmaceuticals."
When the psychiatric authorities say "treatment," what they mean
is "more drugging."
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- Want to learn the horrifying, yet true, history of modern
psychiatry? Check out www.CCHR.org - the Citizens' Commission on Human
Rights. They have a documentary so downright shocking that I couldn't even
finish watching the whole thing. It's called Psychiatry:
An Industry of Death.
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- Also be sure to check out the shocking book by Kelly
Patricia O'Meara called Psyched
Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill.
This book explains exactly why kids like Rober t Hawkins who have been
treated with psychiatric drugs end up shooting innocents.
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- What could have healed Robert Hawkins and saved lives
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- So what's the solution to all this? Robert Hawkins could
have been healed with a radical change in diet that supports healthy brain
chemistry. His parents or caretakers should have stopped the junk food,
ended the medication and put him on raw, living foods and daily superfood
smoothies, fresh vegetable juices, raw nuts and seeds and other wholesome,
non-processed foods. Nutrition is the single most powerful factor determining
healthy moods and behavior, and virtually all young men who commit violent
acts (including the vast majority of those imprisoned in the U.S. today)
suffer from wild nutritional deficiencies.
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- Robert Hawkins could have been a healthy, stable and
normal kid with the help of some real food, real nutrition and real love
from a supporting family. Instead, he lived on junk food, worked at McDonald's
and took medication pills as directed by his psychiatric doctor. The results
speak for themselves: This recipe of processed food and mind-altering drugs
created a monster, and yesterday in Omaha, that monster exploded in a rage
of violence.
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- If we don't learn from all this and stop drugging our
nation's children, then those innocents in Omaha will have died in vain.
And I ask the question: How many more innocent Americans must pay the price
for medication-induced violence?
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- Ask yourself one question: Why does the FDA continue
to allow these dangerous drugs to be prescribed to children and teens when
1) They have never been tested on children or teens, and 2) Other countries
have already banned the prescribing of these drugs to children and teens?
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- Story Notes: The Associated Press originally reported
Hawkins' age as 20 years old, but corrected it to 19 years old following
a correction by local police. Hawkins was not reported to have been taking
medications at the precise time of the shooting, but his caretaker, Debora
Maruca-Kovac, said that "he had been treated in the past for depression
and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder." We do not know exactly
which drugs Hawkins had been treated with in the past, and we hope the
names of those drugs will surface in future reports on this tragedy.
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- NewsTarget deeply regrets the loss of life witnessed
in this event, and we commit to doing our part to end these medication-induced
crimes that continue to be perpetrated by Big Pharma and modern psychiatry.
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