

These findings also have forensic application in criminal, malpractice, and product liability cases." - from "Suicidality, violence and mania caused by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs): A review and analysis" International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine 16 (2003/2004) 31-49 31, IOS Press Recognition of these adverse drug reactions and withdrawal from the offending drugs can prevent misdiagnosis and the worsening of potentially severe iatrogenic disorders. Evidence for these reactions is found in clinical reports, controlled clinical trials, and epidemiological studies in children and adults. Each of these reactions can worsen the individual's mental condition and can result in suicidality, violence, and other forms of extreme abnormal behavior. These adverse drug reactions include the following overlapping clinical phenomena: a stimulant profile that ranges from mild agitation to manic psychoses, agitated depression, obsessive preoccupations that are alien or uncharacteristic of the individual, and akathisia. "Evidence from many sources confirms that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) commonly cause or exacerbate a wide range of abnormal mental and behavioral conditions. The probable answer to the questions, "Why are there increasingly frequent rampage shootings and why is suicide, as reported by the CDC, the leading cause of violent death in the U.S.?" can likely be found in the explosive increase in selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) anti-depressant drug prescriptions issued to both adults and, especially, children since 1990.įrom a 2003 study in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine: Ridiculous levels of medical privacy prevent answers to some of the most important questions that can be asked after these rampage shootings - "What, if any, psychotropic, mind chemistry altering prescription drugs was this person taking, just stopped taking unsupervised, or changed the dosage of unsupervised prior to the incident." At least one of the families who lost a child at Sandy Hook has officially ask for an evaluation of this privacy policy, a policy which is even more obviously ridiculous when, as is currently done, it is still enforced even after the rampage shooters are dead! However, the tool box filled with his prescription medications provided an important clue that wasn't even mentioned let alone discussed.

The child with rage issues since birth was also irrelevant to most rampage shooting incidents since most other perpetrators didn't exhibit such behavior prior to their rampage. The one specific rampage case covered was one where school bullying was clearly the motivation whereas the most deadly of the recent rampages had no such obvious trigger. Most of this documentary covers factors relevant to habitual criminals, not to normally peaceful individuals who suddenly go on a shooting rampage. I regularly watch Nova episodes and this was the worst one I've ever seen from a relevance to claimed subject matter perspective.
