Psychotropic Drugs and School Shooters

Utah:

http://www.worldtalkradio.com/category.asp?cid=266

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-ssri2feb02,1,6561761.story

Kevin Rider‚s death was determined to be a suicide. He had been attempting to withdraw from Prozac when he died from a gunshot wound to his head at the age of 14. Two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also aged 14 had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants. The investigation remains open.

Georgia:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/health/0405/03alex.html

Alex Kim was 13 and small for his age. He was found hanging by a belt from his closet rack. His prescription of Lexapro had recently been doubled.

Massachusettes:

http://www.nomorefakenews.com/archives/archiveview.php?key=2673

http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2005/06/823338.shtml

http://www.sskrplaw.com/adhd/Complaint.pdf

Diane Routhier was beautiful, and happily married for 18 years, with two wonderful boys. She was prescribed Wellbutrin for gallstone problems. Six days later, after suffering through adverse effects of this drug, she shot herself.

Florida:

http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/news/article/0,2071,NPDN_14940_3054830,00.html

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB9RJ7M2XD.html

Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and University of Florida student, was prescribed Prozac at the age of 17. He didn‚t get better. His family found him dead of suicide ˆ hanging from a tall ladder at the family's Gulf Shore Boulevard home in July 2002.

Idaho:

http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/Kara-12-paxil.htm

Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter was prescribed Paxil. She hanged herself at the age of 12 from a hook in her closet.

".... 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")

Vancouver, BC Canada

http://www.thestar.com/

Gareth Christian was an artistic, intelligent young man with a great sense of humour, excited at the prospect of starting his own snowboarding company. So when the 18-year-old Vancouver resident committed suicide in January, 2002, his friends and family were shocked. Gareth had been prescribed Paxil. (Gareth's father could not accept his son‚s death and took his life)

Pennsylvania:

http://www.preventsuicidenow.com/julie-woodward-suicide.html

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-04262004-289397.html

Julie Woodward was a beautiful, intelligent, popular, studious, disciplined, ambitious, and caring girl. A diagnostic test that she took at school confirmed what many believed, that Julie was indeed suffering from depression. Two doctors at the clinic convinced her parents, Tom and Kathy, to put her on Zoloft. Six days later she hanged herself in her family's detached garage. She was only 17.

Kansas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/magazine/21TEENS.html

Matthew Miller was 13 - a slight, fair-haired boy who wore skateboard-style clothing. He was a Cub Scout and had built the fastest pine-wood derby car in his age division.

He was having difficulty and school, and a psychiatrist prescribed Zoloft for him. Seven days after beginning the samples, his mother found him dead hanging by a belt from a laundry hook in his closet.

Pennsylvania:

http://www.pressconnects.com/sunday/news/stories/ne022005s149577.shtml

Kurt Danysh was 18 and on Prozac when he killed his father with a shotgun. He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, hoping to reach anyone who will listen to him. He has a warning for the world. "SSRI drugs can kill. You.. or someone else".

Minnesota:

http://www.woodymatters.com/story.html

Woody died of a Zoloft-induced suicide at age 37. He was not depressed, nor did he have any history of mental illness or depression. He died after taking the drug a total of 5 weeks with the dosage being doubled shortly before his death. He was given the antidepressant from his general physician for "insomnia."

Houston:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/3716997/detail.html

Ten year old boy shot and killed his father after his Prozac dosage was increased.

Transcript of the FDA Advisory Committee Meeting on Antidepressants February 2, 2004:

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/04/transcripts/4006t1.htm

Preventive Psychiatry # Newsletter # 150

An Incomplete List of Recent American "School Shooters" and the Brain-Altering, Empathy-Destroying, Impulse Control-Destroying, "I Don't Give A Damn Anymore" Prescription Drugs They Were On:

* Jeff Weise, age 16, was on 60 mg of Prozac when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather‚s girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. 10 dead, 12 wounded.

* Eric Harris, age 18, Columbine High student was on Luvox when he killed twelve classmates and a teacher in Littleton, Colorado. 15 dead, 23 wounded.

* Kip Kinkel, age 15, Springfield, Oregon student, was withdrawing from Prozac when he shot 24 classmates/family members.

* Shawn Cooper, a 15-year-old in Notus, Idaho, was taking Ritalin when he fired a shotgun at school.

* 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was on Prozac when she shot at fellow students in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, wounding one.

* Mitchell Johnson, age 13, was taking an unspecified psych drug when he shot at fellow students in Jonesboro, Arkansas. 5 dead, many others wounded.

* T.J. Solomon, a 15-year-old in Conyers, Georgia, was taking Ritalin when he shot six classmates.

Jason Hoffman, age 18, was on Effexor and Celexa when he wounded five students at his Granite Hills high school, El Cajon, California. Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage.