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Another in the endless mass shootings in USA - this time Denver - Jan Klimkowski - 30-07-2012
Keith Millea Wrote:Quote:STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH CASE CONFERENCE
"World of Warcraft: The Use of Archetypes in Psychotherapy"
David Williams, MD, Child Psychiatry Fellow II
Roger Fox, MD, PGYIV Psychiatry Resident
Lynne Fenton, MD, Medical Director, Student Mental Health Service
Anschutz Medical Campus
Did you get that?
"World of Warcraft: The Use of Archetypes in Psychotherapy"
What a joyous Archetype to use for your psychotherapy sessions.
Who are these people?
Keith - yes, I did get that.
I shivered in horror as the archetypal shadow of MK Cthulhu spread across my psyche...
And settled, chuckling, inside my computer screen.
Another in the endless mass shootings in USA - this time Denver - Adele Edisen - 31-07-2012
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Adele Edisen Wrote:Quote:From article by Jon Rappaport, July 26, 2012, posted by Peter Lemkin on July 27, 2012, Post #141.Here's what I'm inferring from their work. First, the heavy blood trail outside the Aurora theater, in the back parking lot, has been wrongly attributed to a neck wound suffered by one of the victims, Allie Young. When viewed in the hospital, her scar doesn't look serious enough to account for a massive blood loss, and the wound isn't even dressed. Why would anyone lie]about this?
Somewhere I have seen a photo of the neck wound taken three days after the event in the Aurora theater in Colorado. The wound looks like it is 3-4 inches long on the side of the young woman's neck, The skin is indeed knit and it looks as if there is new skin over the cut. So it is well on the way to healing, and does not need dressing since the cut is covered with new skin..
There is a simple explanation for this. It is not a miracle, although it seems like one, and the photograph is not of a hoax. The author of the article, Jon Rappaport, is not familiar with certain advances in medical treatment of wounds. Actually, the treatment is done with gels or creams containing silver in the form of silver salts, such as silver chloride. The silver ion is lethal to bacteria so there is no need for anti-biotic salves or creams. You can buy these preparations in most drug stores off the shelf wherever they have first-aid preparations.
After a debridement (cleansing of the wound), the cream or gel is applied, covered with a band-aid or gauze dressing, and is left alone for three days (the length of time of effectiveness of the cream or salve) and the cream or salve may then be reapplied as needed.
I learned about this a few years ago when I had an abrasion on my lateral ankle bone. Fearing an infection could develop in the bone underneath, my physician referred me to the Wound Clinic at a hospital. There I learned from the treating physician that silver has been used to destroy bacteria for hundreds of years by the Greeks and Romans. They threw silver coins into wine jugs and barrels to keep their wines from turning into vinegar by the action of bacilli. Dairy farmers did the same to keep their milk from souring before refrigeration was widely available in this country and in the world.
Adele
Adele, all you say above about silver salves is true; however, I'm not aware of someone injured in the neck walking out that door....just hadn't heard it. If so badly injured, wouldn't they be carried? Why would someone leave by the door that the shooter took, unless absolutely no other exit!? While a neck injury could easily be pulsed - especially if cutting an artery - can someone find proof she exited that way and via that path? Still doesn't explain the gas mask at the end corner of the building and many other anomalies. The authorities are certainly aware that the official scenario here is being questioned, yet are not trying to set it 'straight' - odd.
Peter,
I hope we, including Jon Rappaport, are talkng about the same victim. Are we? I was just addressing the question about a photograph of a neck wound taken three days after the event in Aurora.
As for the other issues, I'd have to go back to re-read everything else. I do have a question about the two gas masks: Where was the other gas mask found, in or near the car with the Tennessee license plates near the fire door exit? I didn't see it in the photos around the fire door and car; maybe I missed it, and maybe you can tell me or provide a link to such a photo.
Which way are the bloody footprints going? From the fire exit door or to the fire exit door? Can't tell from the photos I've seen.
Has the young woman said that she went out that door? Did she have a car or friend's car parked near it, and was trying to get to a hospital? How did she get to the hospital? Did she have a friend with her? Was this the woman whose friend tried to block the bleeding in her neck while still in the theater? Was this woman in Theater Nine where the shooter was, or was she in Theater Eight next door?
Was it a strong pulse (arterial) or a weak pulse, possibly juglar vein next to the carotid artery, or from some smaller neck artery?
As I said, I have to re-read the posted material and try to figure out which is what.
Adele
Another in the endless mass shootings in USA - this time Denver - Peter Lemkin - 31-07-2012
my answers interspersed with your questions.
Adele Edisen Wrote:Peter,
Quote:I hope we, including Jon Rappaport, are talkng about the same victim. Are we? I was just addressing the question about a photograph of a neck wound taken three days after the event in Aurora.
I think so. I've not followed much about victims - it is sad, but I'm more interested in who done it [plural]...but for this evidence, yes, perhaps the victims come into it.
Quote: I do have a question about the two gas masks: Where was the other gas mask found, in or near the car with the Tennessee license plates near the fire door exit? I didn't see it in the photos around the fire door and car; maybe I missed it, and maybe you can tell me or provide a link to such a photo.
Whether there were found two gas masks or just one is an open question. The official version, of course, is one. The first stories had it either next to the car or between the door and the car....but later there were photos with a gas mask labeled with a number [standard crime scene work], but it was at the far corner of the building - far from the car and too far and too illogical for Holmes to have run there, dropped it, and then gone back to his car. There are further discrepancies if he was next to his car or IN his car when police found him passive and 'cooperative'. It was first reported that HIS CAR had TN plates; then withdrawn. Both you and Lauren have asked now for this photo showing the whole scene...I'll try to locate it and post it again.
Quote:Which way are the bloody footprints going? From the fire exit door or to the fire exit door? Can't tell from the photos I've seen.
First, I'd have to agree with others that they don't really look like footprints, but DO have the spacing of footprints and may or may not be blood and if blood, may not have been on the foot/feet. So, by looking at them there is no direction; but they clearly come from the emergency exit door and are heaviest there...then move in a direct line to the edge of the building where the gas mask is found [or planted?].
Quote:Has the young woman said that she went out that door?
I've not heard that and it doesn't seem logical to me that anyone would even think to exit the direction of the shooter!
Quote:Did she have a car or friend's car parked near it, and was trying to get to a hospital? How did she get to the hospital? Did she have a friend with her? Was this the woman whose friend tried to block the bleeding in her neck while still in the theater? Was this woman in Theater Nine where the shooter was, or was she in Theater Eight next door?
Don't have the answers to any of these questions. However, everyone was parked in the parking lot on the OTHER side. There was but ONE car found in back - Holmes' car! That lot was NOT usually used by theater patrons!
Quote:Was it a strong pulse (arterial) or a weak pulse, possibly juglar vein next to the carotid artery, or from some smaller neck artery?
Again, I do not know the answers to this....and haven't done a search.
Adele
Not the only, but fairly good group of photos can be found HERE. There are SO many questions. There apparently was a camera near where the gas mask was left, yet we haven't seen any images from it....and I'd be willing to bet we may never.
Another in the endless mass shootings in USA - this time Denver - Peter Lemkin - 31-07-2012
The 24-year-old appeared in court today wearing a maroon colored jumpsuit and his behavior was said to have been as bizarre as his first court appearance on July 23.
His behavior was similar to this first court appearance where he looked, at times wide eyed. He stared blankly and only spoke one word the word "Yes" when asked if he wanted to wave his right to a preliminary hearing within 30 days.
Holmes has also been officially charged with 12 counts of first degree murder, 116 counts of attempted first degree murder, one court of violent crime, and one count of possessing an explosive device.
Adding up all the charges, the Colorado shooter faces 142 charges in total.
According to ABC, throughout the hearing, Holmes' eyes sporadically grew wider as he raised his eyebrows, stared blankly around the room, and then stared down into his lap.
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NOTE: None of his classmates, friends or instructors have reported any such behaviors by Holmes before the 'event'. In fact, there was someone who had a drink and conversation with him only about a week before the 'event' and he seemed normal. The above description is of a person who is NOT NORMAL.
Another in the endless mass shootings in USA - this time Denver - Adele Edisen - 31-07-2012
Mon, July 30, 2012 11:15:36 AM
Pentagon psychiatrists, false flags, and staged terror
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the theater in Colorado was under the
care of a former Pentagon psychiatrist.
Dr. Lynne Fenton won various grants and
contracts to study schizophrenia.
This new information reminds me of
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Another in the endless mass shootings in USA - this time Denver - Peter Lemkin - 31-07-2012
Another in the endless mass shootings in USA - this time Denver - Adele Edisen - 31-07-2012
Peter, you said:
Quote:Not the only, but fairly good group of photos can be found HERE. There are SO many questions. There apparently was a camera near where the gas mask was left, yet we haven't seen any images from it....and I'd be willing to bet we may never.
Thank you for all your replies to my questions and for the photo reference. The information we have in bits and pieces is confusing. Fpr example, an article on the spine board found under that car seems to indicate that the police, upon descending on the car, found James Holmes inside the car (with the gas mask on) and so groggy they laid him on the ground after they broke a window of the car in order to get to him and pull hm out. He was totally unresisting and incapable of walking, appearing to have been drugged. They pulled off his protective clothes and devices. When he finally was aroused, they were able to get him into a police car, leaving all his gear, guns, and gas mask behnd on the sidewalk by the car(?). There is a pile of things shown there, but it is not possible to make out what they are, or if a gas mask is there. As you say, there are many, many questions, and more to come.
I understand Holmes was just as groggy looking at his arraignment today as he was last time. Do they have him on medications of some sort for a reason? Or is this part of his illness?
Adele
Another in the endless mass shootings in USA - this time Denver - Adele Edisen - 31-07-2012
Ted Gunderson on Oklahoma City and Timothy McVeigh on 09/22/2010
Peter, that video is remarkable. I hope everyone watches this one, if they've not seen it before. I've never seen it before. He pulls so many things together, including Oswald. Thanks for posting it.
Gunderson was born on November 7, 1928 and died July 31, 2011 - today is the one-year anniversary of his death.
More about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gunderson
Adele
Another in the endless mass shootings in USA - this time Denver - Ed Jewett - 31-07-2012
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WMR previously reported on the connections between accused Aurora movie theater shooter James Holmes and U.S. government-funded neuroscience research programs at the Anschutz Medical Campus at the University of Colorado and at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, in addition to his father's research work on neural networks for the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It has now emerged that James Holmes's psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton, worked as a psychiatrist for the U.S. Air Force.
Aurora police seized a notebook, containing drawings of stick figures opening fire with weapons, that Holmes mailed to Fenton before he allegedly carried out the massacre of the theater audience at a screening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises." Holmes's defense attorneys are trying to obtain the notebook, which legal experts claim is privileged information between Fenton and Holmes, who was under her care during the time leading up to the shooting spree that killed 12 and wounded more than 58 others.
Fenton officially practiced Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Denver but she has specialized in the study of schizophrenia. Fenton has served as the Director of Student Mental Health Services at the Anschutz campus since 2008. Holmes was one of six students to receive a National Institutes of Health grant for neuroscience research at Anschutz, a program he suddenly withdrew from in May.
Fenton is a graduate of the Chicago Medical School in 1986 and did her residency at Northwestern University in 1990. Northwestern's Department of Biomedical Engineering receives government funding to conduct research into neural engineering and rehabilitation, including restoration of human function, for example, neuroprosthetics, novel motor system therapies for stroke victims and assistive technologies for victims of neuropathologies, bio-inspired technologies for robotics, such as artificial sensor arrays, locomotion systems, sensory-feedback control algorithms. The former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, whose facilities Anschutz now occupies, specialized in neuroprosthetics for veterans who lost limbs in combat.
In May, before he dropped out of his NIH-funded program at Anschutz, Holmes presented a paper on Micro DNA Biomarkers in a class on the Biological Basis of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders.
The Salk Institute, where Holmes, an an intern, worked on temporal illusion projects, is part of the University of California at San Diego. The San Diego campus also hosts the Neural Engineering and Theoretical Neuroscience Laboratory and the Retina Engineering Center of the Department of Bioengineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering, which has a program funded by the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), headquartered at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the home to a number of highly classified military medical research projects, incluidng weaponized anthrax research. One of the lab's projects is the design of retinal implants to replace damaged photoreceptors in the eye by detecting light and properly stimulating neurons in the retina or, simply stated, a technology that would allow the blind to see.
Fenton was also the chief of physical medicine for the Wilford Hall U.S. Air Force Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, from 1990 to 1993.
On April 16, 2003, Air Force Colonel Philip Shue, a psychiatrist at the Air Force Medical Center, kissed his wife good-bye before driving to work. On his way to work, Shue was killed instantly in a crash in which the driver's side was severely impacted. The Air Force, local, and state police determined that Shue committed suicide. End of story? Not quite.
Shue's t-shirt was ripped open from his chest to his navel, with a six-inch vertical incision in his chest. Oddly, Shue's nipples had been removed. Shue's wrists were wrapped in duct tape. Investigators determined that Shue had suffered a psychological breakdown before mutilating himself and then committing suicide. A Kendall County grand jury later concluded that no foul play was involved in Shue's death and no crime was committed.
Noted pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, who investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy -- determining there was more than one assassin -- and other high-profile deaths, concluded that there was no way that Shue could have mutilated himself and that Shue fell victim to torture and homicide. A trial over payment of Shue's USAA life insurance policy did result from the death but the presiding judge changed the cause of Shue's death from suicide to homicide although he ruled in a "take nothing" decision that USAA was not liable in paying out Shue's life insurance claim to Shue's first wife. Nevertheless, the Kendall County Sheriff's office refused to re-open the case as a homicide. And, like the trial of James Holmes in Aurora, the judge ruled that cameras were not permitted in the court room during the Shue trial. Subsequently, in a politically-motivated prosecution by the Bush administration, Wecht faced 84 criminal counts of misuse of his public office as Allegheny County medical examiner, including alleged misuse of an Allegheny County fax machine. In 2009, the Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney in Pittsburgh dismissed all charges against Wecht. However, the case left Wecht $8 million in debt.
Shue's murder, deemed a "suicide" by authorities, fits a familiar pattern of the government eliminating witnesses to illegal activities and gross misconduct. Although Fenton preceded Shue by ten years at the Lackland psychiatric department, Shue's suspicious death is an indication that he may have become aware of unethical activities at the medical center. Shue had also announced his decision to retire from the Air Force shortly before his death.
In 2005, Fenton received a reprimand from the Colorado medical board for prescribing Vicodin, Xanax, Lorazepam, and Ambien to her husband, her employee, and herself.
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Another in the endless mass shootings in USA - this time Denver - Ed Jewett - 01-08-2012
The Colorado "Batman Shooter". De-mystifying Mass Murder in America
Taboo Question: What were the brain-altering psych drugs that the Batman Shooter might have been taking or withdrawing from?
by Dr. Gary G. Kohls
Dramatic, and recurring mass shootings seem to be a peculiarly American phenomenon, given the fact that every other nation that experiences such shootings soon passes appropriate legislation that effectively prevents the repeat of such preventable tragedies. Not in America however, thanks to the National Rifle Association and the numerous, well-paid weapons manufacturing lobbyists who threaten into silence and inaction most of our elected officials in DC, both Republican and Democrat, who can't seem to resist taking the bribes.Taboo Question: What were the brain-altering psych drugs that the Batman Shooter might have been taking or withdrawing from?
by Dr. Gary G. Kohls
The now infamous, and roundly hated James Holmes was probably just another one of many brain-altered, and then gun-wielding, mass murderers who shot into an innocent crowd after making impressively bizarre plans to do so. There are many similarities with the 1999 Columbine shootings that happened only a few miles away.
But what impressed me was the fact that the first words out of the mouths of the media and ruling elites immediately after many of these shootings was this obfuscating sentiment: "This is an act of senseless violence', and we will probably never understand why it happened"; meaning, of course, don't bother speculating about the motives of the shooter. And don't ask any unwanted probing questions, especially about Holmes' psychiatrist and what mind-altering drugs she probably prescribed for him. "Trust us", they are saying, "we're the experts."
Unfortunately, these experts are also likely to be beholden to various powers-that-be that aren't interested in having us sheeple understand what really went down on at the midnight Batman movie. And they don't seem to be very interested in solving the problem or curing the malady that is the epidemic of American gun violence.
The assorted potentially guilty accomplices are covering their behinds. They want to be sure that they will be held blameless when the final "official" report is released in a year or so. So don't expect to be told everything that we need to know so that we can make sense of mass shootings any time soon. Psychiatry and BigPharma are off limits.
Do expect to hear all sorts of irrelevant spin-off verbiage about what kinds of guns and ammo were used and whether or not there will be an "insanity defense". And, of course, the overwhelming reportage, until the trial starts, will be about the hundreds of victims and their dramatic stories rather than about the possible motivations of the shooter.
If there is evidence that will help us naïve "consumers" of drugs and information and advertisements and propaganda to make sense out of events that will give us a fighting chance to prevent them in the future, don't expect that we will be told about it - until and unless some courageous investigative journalist does the hard sleuthing work and is allowed to report his findings. We will certainly be as confused about the Batman Shooter as most of us were about the Columbine shooters.
Making futile the attempts to de-mystify mass murder
If the real connections that would help to de-mystify the latest mass shootings are suppressed, as expected, the gradually approaching police state agenda of the 1% will be enabled. Prepare for "domestic" spy drones over America, more conceal and carry guns and assault rifles purchased by freaked-out gun-owners, metal detectors everywhere and taxpayer-paid private security firms frisking us as we stand in line to see the next violence-inducing, fear-inducing shoot-em-up fantasy film about fictitious time-traveling "undead" monsters, or some new and laughably absurd super-hero movie that will surely stimulate ideas about violence to who-knows-what mentally unsound or brain-drugged copy-cat wannabe who might fancy himself as a homicidal avenger of injustice (or as a competitor for the Guiness Book of World Records for non-combat mass murders).
I have been listening and watching the repetitive and sensationalistic news coverage of the Aurora shootings during the days since the deed was done. And virtually nobody wants to talk about the psychotropic drugs that most of the school and workplace shooters were taking or withdrawing from.
We all know that there are " sacred cows" lurking among us that are too big to raise questions about because they consider themselves too big to fail. And most of them have the economic and political power to ensure that they are not questioned. It is also well known that many major media "journalists", news anchors, politicians and police departments are careful to not step on big toes in crisis situations like the Batman shootings. Readers are fully justified in suspecting that the "experts" are covering up something in this case. Read on.
Who might be potential accessories to the crimes of the Batman Shooter?
So we need to wonder our loud who might be those "sacred cow" groups or industries that are contributing to or even benefiting from making obscure America's recurrent mass shootings. Many of them regard themselves as being too big to expose, criticize or otherwise implicate as accomplices, even as inadvertent accomplices. Any one of us can think of any number of potential culprits. My list includes this TOP 9 LIST (plus 3 major potential players further below):
1) the violent entertainment industry;
2) the violent, and addictive videogame industry;
3) the violent professional contact sports industry, where violent acts are hoped-for and applauded;
4) the food industry that is doing so much to malnourish vulnerable brains and bodies;
5) the weapons manufacturers and their lobbyist organizations;
6) the ease in getting lethal military style weapons (the Aurora killer reportedly got some of his guns at Gander Mountain and Pro Bass Shops);
7) our militarized culture and the media that glorifies the "legal" mass murder by "licensed to kill" soldiers in the battlefield and then condemns them when they come home, psychologically and spiritually tormented, and commit murders, suicides or crimes;
8) Congresspersons, Presidents, state governors and Supreme Court justices who indifferently vote against, refuse to pass or refuse to enforce rational harm-reduction legislation that could do so much to prevent these mass homicides;
9) Christian church leaders who fail to teach to the potential mass murderers in their own Sunday School or confirmation classes about the Golden Rule and the other nonviolent ethical teachings of Jesus, whom they profess to follow.
But in the minds of many, the big culprits are the ones that the corporate media and their paymasters are scared to death about exposing, are:
1) BigPharma (the multinational pharmaceutical companies) and their propaganda that shapes public attitudes and behaviors and stimulates demand for drug prescriptions from their physicians;
2) the US Food and Drug Administration that grants approval for many potentially lethal psychiatric drugs on virtually zero long-term safety data and woefully inadequate efficacy data;
3) BigPsychiatry/BigMedicine and us obedient, quasi-enslaved physicians who are locked into those corporate entities and who have, by and large, not opened our eyes and ears to the data from the truth-seeking alternative medical, forensic and drug research community of altruists (who are not beholden to the obscenely wealthy and powerful pharmaceutical corporations).
Much of this data, which is virtually never published in the hostile BigPharma-subsidized medical journals, shows unequivocally that most, if not all, of the five classes of potentially addictive, potentially brain-damaging psychiatric drugs are fully capable of causing drug-induced violence, drug-induced psychoses, drug-induced homicidallity, drug-induced mania, drug-induced suicidality, drug-induced dementia, drug-induced sleep disorders and drug-induced criminal behaviors (especially in unsuspecting adolescents who are often told to ignore the adverse effects and just keep on taking the drugs).
He who pays the piper, calls the tune
By ignoring the mountains of peer-reviewed complementary-alternative medical literature and only paying attention to what is advertised in the co-opted mainstream medical journals, we drug prescribers regularly - and often quite cavalierly hand out brain and mind-altering synthetic chemicals that BigPharma's ubiquitous, and very attractive, sales staffs try to reassure us are safe, curative and non-addicting us (with mostly skewed or insufficient data to back up their claims - and pens, pizzas and post-it notes to clinch the sale).
Therefore, considering the fact that there is that massive amount of evidence that makes a strong connection between American school shootings and the use of (or withdrawal from) mind-altering, brain-numbing, remorselessness-inducing psych drugs, a fair question should be: "Was the Batman Shooter taking or withdrawing from any one of the scores of psychiatric drugs so readily prescribed these days?"
(For essential background on this issue, see books by the whistle-blowing psychiatrist Peter Breggin, includingMedication Madness, Toxic Psychiatry, Talking Back To Prozac or Your Drug May Be Your Problem or these websites:www.ssristories.com, www.cchrint.org, www.breggin.org, www.madinamerica.com or http://www.mindfreedom.org.)
But have we have heard on any radio or television station, even on PBS or NPR, a single word about the high likelihood of legal psych drug use or drug withdrawal in the case of the Batman Shooter? And have we heard anything about Dr. Lynne Fenton, Holmes' psychiatrist who would have been the major prescriber? A lot of critical thinkers smell a rat. There is a cover-up in the making.
Bad advice: "Don't waste time trying to figure out what motivated the shooter"
Interestingly, one of the survivors of the Columbine school shooter Eric Harris (who was taking the Prozac-like drug Luvox that had been prescribed by his tragically unaware Colorado psychiatrist, after a trial of Zoloft "failed") contributed to the myth-making when he advised the most recent batch of Colorado shooting victims to not "waste time trying to figure out what motivated the shooter or shooters. It's a waste of time" he said, "and it gives them exactly what they want (sic)." And then later in the interview he lamented the fact that "I don't think I'll ever understand." Duh.
Psychologically and spiritually, any psychologist or spiritual advisor worth his or her salt, when dealing with the psychological and spiritual consequences of trauma, will tell you that that advice is profoundly anti-therapeutic and will, at the very least, lead to delayed healing - possibly permanently delayed healing. That statement made me wonder what dependency-inducing psych drug that he had been taking for the last 13 years. Perhaps he has already tried to taper off his drug but then found out that he couldn't tolerate the disabling, crazy-making withdrawal symptoms, and therefore he now justifies the continued use of a drug that he can't get off of.
But he is certainly repeating what the "experts" always seem to want us to believe as they hide essential but "sensitive" information that might be uncomfortable for Holmes' doctor, or clinic, or pharmacist, or neuroscience grad school program, or family member, or pharmaceutical company, or gun seller, or legislato,r or secret black-ops military experimenter, or other potential accomplices. Are the authorities trying to protect the various industries and people that rightfully need to be named for their part in the massacres, however indirect?
It is important for me to remind readers at this point to check out http://www.ssristories.com, where they will find a collection of 4,800+ damning, mostly criminal news stories about the behavioral and psychic toxicity of antidepressants. These are documented examples of psychotropic drug-induced violence that have made it into the media (via newspapers, TV, scientific journals) or were part of (only three!) FDA hearings (1991, 2004 or 2006) where public testimony about the lethality of FDA-approved psych drugs was allowed (and essentially ignored by the FDA panel).
The thousands of examples reported on that website represent just the tip of what surely is an enormous iceberg, since even the FDA estimates that as many as 99% of adverse events from any given drug is never reported to that agency.
What is the PDR trying to warn us physicians about when we prescribe antidepressants?
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- Manic Reaction (Mania, e.g., Kleptomania, Pyromania, Dipsomania, Nymphomania)
- Hypomania (e.g., poor judgment, over spending, impulsivity, etc.)
- Abnormal Thinking
- Hallucinations
- Personality Disorder
- Amnesia
- Agitation
- Psychosis
- Abnormal Dreams
- Emotional Lability
- Alcohol Abuse and/or Craving
- Hostility
- Paranoid Reactions
- Confusion
- Delusions
- Sleep Disorders
- Akathisia (severe internal restlessness that can cause suicidality)
- Withdrawal Syndrome
- Impulsivity
It should be emphasized that so-called adverse reactions are most likely to occur when starting or discontinuing the drug, increasing or lowering the dose or when switching from one SSRI to another. Adverse reactions are often mis-diagnosed as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or some other "mental illness of unknown origin" when the symptoms may be entirely iatrogenic (treatment induced). Withdrawal, especially abrupt withdrawal, from any of these medications can cause severe neuropsychiatric and physical symptoms that can also cause the above signs and symptoms. It is important to withdraw extremely slowly from these drugs, often over a period of a year or more, under the supervision of a qualified and experienced specialist, if available. Withdrawal is sometimes more severe than the original symptoms or problems.
SSRI "adverse reactions" are actually expected, understandable and therefore should not be surprising to physicians. They are not actually "side effects"
So with the list of common adverse effects of these drugs above, I present below a "short list" of drugassociated violence over the past decade or two, perpetrated mostly by young people who were involved in newsworthy shootings and whose psych drugs were identified and reported to the public.
Tragically, in the vast majority of psychiatric drug-related suicides, homicides or other types of irrational violence, prescription drugs are generally not reported in the corporate-controlled and subsidized media, where pharmaceutical companies advertise heavily, exerting subtle influence on how much investigative journalism is allowed - or allowed to be published. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Among the nearly 5000 examples of psychiatric drug-induced violence on its site, SSRI Stories includes a list of 66 school shootings that are disproportionately American. That list of 66 often mentions suicides that were also connected to either taking or withdrawing from SSRI drugs. There has been an explosion of such incidents since Eli Lilly's Prozac, the world's first SSRI drug, was released onto an unsuspecting public back in 1989.
It needs to be emphasized that most of the developed world's drug regulatory agencies, including the FDA, have not tested psychotropic drugs for safety or efficacy on human brains under the age of 18 (either short term or long term), and therefore those agencies have not approved their use for that group (with rare exceptions). It also needs to be mentioned that no combination of two or more drugs of any class (again with rare exceptions) have even been tested for safety of efficacy in the rat labs. Therefore, we physicians, if we prescribe these untested drugs, (especially in combination with other drugs) to that underage group (that is at a stage of immature brain development) we are doing so "off label", thus exposing ourselves to medico-legal risks.
Here is the sobering list. Read it and weep and then reassess what really needs to be done with background checks when someone with a clean criminal or so-called "mental illness" record tries to purchase an automatic rifle that can shoot 60 rounds a minute.
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 5[SUP]th[/SUP] 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.
Etc, etc.
Finally, to read my recent Duty to Warn column entitled:
"Many Psychoactive Drugs are Strongly Associated with Violence" see:http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2012/04/05/long-term-treatment-with-antidepressant--
"Many Psychoactive Drugs are Strongly Associated with Violence" see:http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2012/04/05/long-term-treatment-with-antidepressant--
Dr. Gary G. Kohls is a retired physician who has painfully witnessed (in his practice of holistic mental health care) the soul- and psychic devastation of war, domestic violence, punitive parenting, malnutrition, homelessness, poverty and the serious potential dangers of the chronic and widespread use of psychotropic drugs. In his essays he tries to warn his readers about some of the physical, neurological, psychological and spiritual consequences of all forms of violence and neglect.
An earlier version of this essay was posted on July 25, 2012 at: http://lewrockwell.com/kohls/kohls13.1.html
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