- 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. You have permission to forward or
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- - Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
- Consumer health advocate
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