Nobody is saying that Asperger's
or Autism is the cause of the violence. It is the medications used to
treat those conditions that have a long record of triggering suicide and
violence.
Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged
18 (Colombine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students
and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold’s
medical records have never been made available to the public.
Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times
the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his
grandfather’s girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota.
He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.
Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on
Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to
his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the
event.
Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.
Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking
Zoloft.
Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking
Zoloft for 6 days.
Jarred Viktor, age 15, stabbed his grandmother 61 times after 5 days on
Paxil.
Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they
slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring
22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.
Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students,
wounding six others.
A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that
caused an armed stand off at his school.
Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school
prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed,
five others were wounded.
A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up
his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering
another.
Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin)
shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.
TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia
opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.
Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.
James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South
Carolina, took a.22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing
two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.
Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting
in Pennsylvania.
Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) school shooting in El Cajon, California.
Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his
grandmother 61 times.
Chris Shanahan, age 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed
a woman.
Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents
as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife
and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister.
Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been
court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.
Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from Prozac when he died from a gunshot
wound to his head.
Initially it was ruled a suicide, but two years later, the investigation
into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also
age 14, had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants.
Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription
had been doubled.
Diane Routhier was prescribed Welbutrin for gallstone problems. Six days
later, after suffering many adverse effects of the drug, she shot herself.
Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and a University of Florida student,
was prescribed Prozac at the age of 17. His family found him dead of suicide
hanging from a tall ladder at the family’s Gulf Shore Boulevard home
in July 2002.
Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on Paxil when she hung herself
from a hook in her closet.
Kara’s parents said “…. the damn doctor wouldn’t take her off it and I
asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought
she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil…”).
Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on Paxil when he committed suicide
in 2002, (Gareth’s father could not accept his son’s death and killed
himself.)
Julie Woodward, age 17, was on Zoloft when she hung herself in her family’s
detached garage.
Matthew Miller was 13 when he saw a psychiatrist because he was having
difficulty at school. The psychiatrist gave him samples of Zoloft. Seven
days later his mother found him dead, hanging by a belt from a laundry
hook in his closet.
Kurt Danysh, age 18, and on Prozac, killed his father with a shotgun.
He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, trying to warn the world
that SSRI drugs can kill.
Woody ____, age 37, committed suicide while in his 5th week of taking
Zoloft. Shortly before his death his physician suggested doubling the
dose of the drug. He had seen his physician only for insomnia. He had
never been depressed, nor did he have any history of any mental illness
symptoms.
A boy from Houston, age 10, shot and killed his father after his Prozac
dosage was increased.
Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student.
He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking Zoloft and
“other drugs for the conditions.”.
Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed 9 students
and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari
was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine.
Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21
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 amounts
of Xanax in his system.
Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking antidepressants
before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High
School then he committed suicide.
Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his
own life. Court records show Coon was on Trazodone.
Jon Romano, age 16, on medication for depression, fired a shotgun at a
teacher in his New York high school.
-- Michael F Rivero https://www.facebook.com/michael.f.rivero |