Pharma in the crosshairs

[unforgiven]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nra-links-school-violence-ritalin-experts-deny-224138205.html

What we have been sayin all along. Let's see where Ollie will go with this.

[98Z5V]

'Bout damn time.  John Noveske is smiling down, right now, and happy that it's finally brought up by someone else. 

 

 

 

Edited May 21, 2018 by 98Z5V

[98Z5V]

Posted February 21

I keep going back to John Noveske's last facebook post.

I want to know when THIS STUFF is going to get some attention, and get something done about it...  SSRIs.

John Noveske's last Facebook post
Psychiatric Drug Use and Firearms Violence
Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Columbine 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.

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.

Missing from list... 3 of 4 known to have taken these same meds....

What drugs was Jared Lee Loughner on? age 21...... killed 6 people and injuring 14 others in Tuscon, Az

What drugs was James Eagan Holmes on? age 24..... killed 12 people and injuring 59 others in Aurora Colorado

What drugs was Jacob Tyler Roberts on? age 22, killed 2 injured 1, Clackamas Or

What drugs was Adam Peter Lanza on? age 20, Killed 26 and wounded 2 in Newtown Ct

[Sisco]

Couldn’t agree more. In retrospect I wish I had chosen a different career, though 95 % of mine was spent with life saving drugs, and mostly before the profit gouging went through the roof. I remember when we had an antibiotic that was $7.75 a dose and people thought it was highway robbery. Ritalin and Adderall and the way they are misused are a national shame. The Oppoids and their marketing another national shame. I would like to see all of the above perpetuators trails of so called “legal” prescription drugs.

[ARTrooper]

Need to let kids be kids and work out their problems in active ways. I'll never dope up my kids because they have to much energy or are depressed. the medical community needs to stop using meds as the first and only treatment option.

[98Z5V]

9 minutes ago, ARTrooper said:

Need to let kids be kids and work out their problems in active ways. I'll never dope up my kids because they have to much energy or are depressed. the medical community needs to stop using meds as the first and only treatment option.

Don't say that just yet  - if you've never had one with some Severe AD/HD.  I said the same thing - initially.  My kid's brain works way faster than his body. Like fucking Rain Man.  If he doesn't have the right med (in the right dosage), he can't even function.  I'm serious. 

Edited May 22, 2018 by 98Z5V

[ARTrooper]

Well I guess I have never seen that. I just know people who have drugged up their kids and not needed to. Happened to my wife's youngest cousin. He was not an overly energetic kid, his crappy step mom just wanted him to be easier to deal with. now the kid is totally messed up and went from a gun loving, outdoorsman, hunter; to a snowflake who seems to have lost the kindness he once had. Probably more to that than just the drugs, but he definitely didn't need them. It was just more convenient for those raising him, than to deal with a young boy who just wanted to run around, use his imagination, and play.

[98Z5V]

7 minutes ago, ARTrooper said:

 It was just more convenient for those raising him, than to deal with a young boy who just wanted to run around, use his imagination, and play.

That's the biggest issue - BIGGEST.  Parents that can't, don't know how, or don't WANT TO ...  PARENT.

 

[Armed Eye Doc]

2 minutes ago, 98Z5V said:

That's the biggest issue - BIGGEST.  Parents that can't, don't know how, or don't WANT TO ...  PARENT.

 

I agree with this completely.  Every child has a mom and dad, at least biologically.   It is an unfortunate reality that fewer of them have parents nowadays. 

As to medicating kids, it is done far too often to stop kids from being kids.  They need to run and play to release energy.  There are occasions where medicine is needed.  Done correctly, like Tom's son and my nephew, it focuses the energy but doesn't take it away completely. 

[ARTrooper]

I completely agree.

[unforgiven]

13 hours ago, 98Z5V said:

That's the biggest issue - BIGGEST.  Parents that can't, don't know how, or don't WANT TO ...  PARENT.

 

That's what happens when you have babies making babies. Meds with supervision is not the same as meds without supervision. Then the key is proper amounts. Without parental involment a bad situation just gets worse.

[Sisco]

Pharma related. Hope they nail the SOBs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/health/purdue-opioids-oxycontin.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share