Antidepressant Drugs Causing Epidemic ofMania Mayhem and Murder

Paul Joseph Watson amp Alex JonesInfowarscomMonday April 9 2012

Americarsquos addiction to dangerous SSRIrsquoshits crisis levels

The alleged shooting of a police officer inAustin by a man taking the anti-anxiety drugXanax is just one of a plethora of recentincidents fueled by anti-depressantpharmaceuticals ndash an epidemic of mania thathas swept the country VIDEO BELOW

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Mary OrsquoDell the mother of 24-year-old Brandon Montgomery Daniel told the Associated Pressthat her sonrsquos role in the fatal shooting of Austin Senior Police Officer Jaime Padron was fueledby alcohol and psychotropic drugs

ldquoShe said she talked with her son Thursday evening and that he had been taking the prescriptionanti-anxiety drug Xanax and drinking tequilardquo reports AP ldquoHours later Padron was fatally shotat a Walmart while trying to subdue a potentially intoxicated man who was later identified asDaniel investigators said Two employees tackled and disarmed him then held him until helparrivedrdquo

OrsquoDell added that Daniel was not even awareof what had taken place because ldquohe wasunder the influence of tequila and Xanaxrdquo

This is just one of a spate of shockingincidents over recent years in which Xanaxand other similar pharmaceuticals have playeda central role in triggering random violenceand mania

The two recent incidents involving airlineofficials suffering mental breakdowns duringflights were also caused by anti-depressantdrugs

JetBlue pilot Clayton Osbon who went crazyand began screaming about Al-Qaeda and

threatening to take the plane down during anincident last month was described as aldquoconsummate professionalrdquo by colleaguesHowever experts looking into the case confirmthat ldquoseveral pharmacological issues underscrutiny within the airline industry are likely toget attention in the Osbon case including theside effects of medicines that pilots sometimesuse to fight fatigue and depressionrdquo

ldquoWas Osbon for instance among those pilotsnewly permitted by the Federal AviationAdministration (FAA) to use one of fourspecific antidepression medications whosepotential side effects are known to include hallucination and panic attacksrdquo reports the ChristianScience Monitor

In a separate incident an American Airlines flight attendant had to be restrained by passengersafter she went on a crazy tirade about crashing the plane and killing everyone onboard It lateremerged that the flight attendant had been on medication to treat a bipolar disorder

A 50-year-old grandmother who went nuts and began kicking punching and spitting at flightattendants for being refused alcohol last month also blamed her anti-anxiety medication for theoutburst

The Save Project an organization committed to highlighting the dangers of SSRI drugshighlights a laundry list of cases where use of anti-depressants particularly amongst youngpeople has led to violence Below is just a partial list

Eric Harris the triggerman in the Columbine school shootings killed his fellow studentsand took his own life while taking Luvox

Thirteen year-old Chris Fetters killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac

Twelve year-old Christopher Pittman murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft

Thirteen year-old Mathew Miller hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloftfor 6 days

Fifteen year-old Jarred Viktor stabbed his grandmother 61 times after 5 days on Paxil

Fifteen year old Kip Kinkel (Prozac and RITALIN) shot his parents while they slept thenwent to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginningProzac treatment

Luke Woodham aged 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two studentswounding six others

Boy in Pocatello ID (Zoloft) in 1998 who in seizure activity from Zoloft had a stand off at

the school

Michael Carneal (Ritalin) a 14-year-old opened fire on students at a high school prayermeeting in West Paducah Kentucky Three teenagers were killed five others werewounded one of whom was paralyzed

Young man in Huntsville Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents withan ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another

Andrew Golden aged 11 (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson aged 14 (Ritalin) shot 15people killing four students one teacher and wounding 10 others

TJ Solomon aged 15 (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers Georgia opened fire onand wounded six of his class mates

Rod Mathews aged 14 (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat

James Wilson aged 19 (Psychiatric Drugs ndash various) Breenwood South Carolina took a22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls and wounding sevenother children and two teachers

Elizabeth Bush aged 13 (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania

Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) ndash school shooting in El Cajon California

Another boy in Pocatello ID (Zoloft) had a stand off at the school

Jarred Viktor aged 15 (Paxil) after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61times

Chris Shanahan aged 15 (Paxil) in Rigby ID who out of the blue killed a woman

Antidepressants are also exacerbating gang on gang violence 18-year-old Bryan Sandoval Rochawas recently sentenced to five years in jail for stabbing three rival gang members ldquoRocha wastaking antidepressants at the timerdquo reports the San Rafael News Pointer

Last year the Institute for Safe MedicationPractices (ISMP) produced a study basedon FDA figures that illustrated how theantidepressants Pristiq (desvenlafaxine)Paxil (paroxetine) and Prozac (fluoxetine)all appear in the list of the top tenviolence-causing drugs

Americarsquos addiction to psychotropic drugsis out of control and growing every year

According to a report in the LondonGuardian today ldquo(subscriptions) forbenzodiazepines ndash the class of anti-anxiety

drugs including Xanax Valium Ativan andKlonopin ndash have gone up 17 since 2006 to 94mannually New York magazine notes GenericXanax which goes by the name alprazolam hasbecome 23 more popular in that same timeframeldquomaking it the most prescribed psycho-pharmaceutical drug and the 11th-most prescribedoverall with 46m prescriptions written in 2010cent

The connection between anti-depressant drugsand inexplicable and sudden violence is especiallyprescient given todayrsquos report concerning howldquo110000 Army personnel were givenantidepressants narcotics sedativesantipsychotics and anti-anxiety drugsrdquo while onduty last year prescribed medicines on whichpsychologists have blamed ldquoa surge in randomacts of violencerdquo

ldquoWe have never medicated our troops to the extent we are doing now hellip And I donrsquot believe thecurrent increase in suicides and homicides in the military is a coincidencerdquo Bart Billings a formermilitary psychologist and combat stress expert told the Los Angeles Times

Lawyers are also currentlyinvestigating whether Staff SergeantRobert Bales accused of massacring17 Afghan civilians was influenced bya cocktail of antidepressant drugs thattriggered a psychotic episode

Itrsquos abundantly clear that the epidemicof craziness and violence we arewitnessing both in America and byUS troops abroad is being fueled bydangerous psychotropic drugssubscription pharmaceuticals that arecausing normally sane people to flyoff the hook and act out with insaneacts of mania or violence

Such shocking incidents will continueto happen at an ever-increasing rateuntil there is a massive backlash

against the pharmaceutical industry and establishment doctors for pushing drugs that are directlycausing violence lunacy and bloodshed

REPORT 100000+ active-duty Army troopson medsKim MurphyLos Angeles TimesMonday April 9 2012

US Air Force pilot Patrick Burkesday started in the cockpit of a B-1bomber near the Persian Gulf andproceeded across nine time zones ashe ferried the aircraft home to South Dakota

Every four hours during the 19-hourflight Burke swallowed a tablet ofDexedrine the prescribedamphetamine known as go pillsAfter landing he went out for dinnerand drinks with a fellow crewmanThey were driving back to Ellsworth Air Force Base when Burke began striking his friend in the head

FOR THE RECORDAn earlier version of this story said that Bart Billings a former military psychologist hosts anannual conference at Camp Pendleton on combat stress He now holds the conference at othervenues Jack Bauer told me this was going to happen mdash you guys are trying to kidnap me heyelled as if he were a character in the TV show 24

When the woman giving them a lift pulled the car over Burke leaped on her and wrestled her tothe ground Me and my platoon are looking for terrorists hetold her before grabbing her keys driving away and crashing intoa guardrail

Burke was charged with auto theft drunk driving and two countsof assault But in October a court-martial judge found the younglieutenant not guilty by reason of lack of mental responsibilitymdash the almost unprecedented equivalent at least in modern-daymilitary courts of an insanity acquittal

Four military psychiatrists concluded that Burke suffered frompolysubstance-induced delirium brought on by alcohol lack ofsleep and the 40 milligrams of Dexedrine he was issued by the AirForce

In a small but growing number of casesacross the nation lawyers are blaming theUS militarys heavy use of psychotropicdrugs for their clients aberrant behaviorand related health problems Suchdefenses have rarely gained traction inmilitary or civilian courtrooms butBurkes case provides the first importantindication that military psychiatrists andcourt-martial judges are not blind to whatcan happen when troops go to work medicated

After two long-running wars withescalating levels of combat stress morethan 110000 active-duty Army troops last year were taking prescribed antidepressants narcoticssedatives antipsychotics and anti-anxiety drugs according to figures recently disclosed to TheTimes by the US Army surgeon general Nearly 8 of the active-duty Army is now on sedativesand more than 6 is on antidepressants mdash an eightfold increase since 2005

We have never medicated our troops to the extent we are doing now And I dont believe thecurrent increase in suicides and homicides in the military is a coincidence said Bart Billings aformer military psychologist who hosts an annual conference on combat stress

The pharmacy consultant for the Army surgeon general says the militarys use of the drugs iscomparable to that in the civilian world Its not that were using them more frequently or anydifferently said Col Carol Labadie As with any medication you have to look at weighing therisk versus the benefits of somebody going on a medication

But the military environment makes regulating the use of prescription drugs a challenge comparedwith the civilian world some psychologists say

Follow-up appointments in the battlefield are often few and far between Soldiers are sent out ondeployment typically with 180 days worth of medications allowing them to trade with friends or

grab an entire fistful of pills atthe end of an anxious day Andsoldiers with injuries can easilybecome dependent on narcoticpainkillers

The big difference is these arepeople who have access toloaded weapons or haveresponsibility for protectingother individuals who are inharms way said Grace

Jackson a former Navy staff psychiatrist who resignedher commission in 2002 in part out of concerns thatmilitary psychiatrists even then were handing out toomany pills

For the Army and the Marines using the drugs hasbecome a wager that whatever problems occur will beisolated and containable said James Culp a formerArmy paratrooper and now a high-profile militarydefense lawyer He recently defended an Army privateaccused of murder arguing that his mental illness wasexacerbated by the antidepressant Zoloft

What do you do when 30-80 of the people that youhave in the military have gone on three or moredeployments and they are mentally worn out What doyou do when they cant sleep You make a calculatedrisk in prescribing these medications Culp said

The potential effect on military personnel has special resonance in the wake of several high-profilecases most notably the one involving Staff Sgt Robert Bales accused of murdering 17 civiliansin Afghanistan His attorneys have asked for a list of all medicines the 38-year-old soldier was taking

We dont know whether he was or was not on any medicines which is why [his attorney] hasasked to be provided the list of medications said Richard Adler a Seattle psychiatrist who isconsulting on Bales defenseWhile there was some early ad hoc use of psychotropic drugs in the Vietnam War the modernArmy psychiatrists deployment kit is likely to include nine kinds of antidepressantsbenzodiazepines for anxiety four antipsychotics two kinds of sleep aids and drugs for attention-

deficit hyperactivity disorderaccording to a 2007 review in thejournal Military MedicineSome troops in Afghanistan areprescribed mefloquine anantimalarial drug that has beenincreasingly associated withparanoia thoughts of suicide andviolent anger spells that soldiersdescribe as mefloquine rage

Prior to the Iraq war soldierscould not go into combat onpsychiatric drugs period Notvery long ago going back maybe10 or 12 years you couldnt even

go into the armed services if you used any of thesedrugs in particular stimulants said Peter Breggina New York psychiatrist who has written widelyabout psychiatric drugs and violence

But theyve changed that Im getting a new kindof call right now and thats people saying thepsychiatrist wont approve their deployment unlessthey take psychiatric drugs

Military doctors say most drugs safety and efficacyis so well-established that it would be a mistake tosend battalions into combat without the help ofmedications that can prevent suicides help soldiersrest and calm shattered nerves

Fueling much of the controversy in recent yearsthough are reports of a possible link between thepopular class of antidepressants known as selectiveserotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) mdash drugssuch as Prozac Paxil and Zoloft which boostserotonin levels in the brain mdash and an elevated risk of suicide among young people The drugscarry a warning label for those up to 24 mdash the very age of most young military recruits

Last year one of Culps clients Army Pfc David Lawrence pleaded guilty at Ft Carson Coloto the murder of a Taliban commander in Afghanistan He was sentenced to only 1212 yearslater reduced to 10 years after it was shown that he suffered from schizophrenic episodes thatescalated after the death of a good friend an Army chaplain

Deeply depressed and hearing a voice he would laterdescribe as female-sounding and never nice Lawrencehad reportedly feared he would be thrown out of the Armyif he told anyone he was hearing voices mdash a classicsymptom of schizophrenia Instead hed merely tolddoctors he was depressed and thinking of suicide He wasprescribed Zoloft for depression and trazodone oftenused as a sleeping aid

The voices got worse and Lawrence began seeinghallucinations of the chaplain minus his head EventuallyLawrence walked into the Taliban commanders jail celland shot him in the face

They give him this and they send him out with a gunsaid his father Brett Lawrence

Up until the Burke case there had been few if any recent rulings exonerating military defendantsclaiming to be incapacitated by medications

Burkes case may have marked a turning point Four Army doctors concluded that he wasntmentally responsible for his actions mdash a finding none of them would have made had he beenmerely drunk

Three drinks over an entire evening is not enough to black somebody out but I dont remember99 of what happened over the rest of that evening Burke said in an interview It was kind oflike I was misfiring on the cylinders Both the American Psychological Assn and the AmericanPsychiatric Assn in a 2010 congressional hearing urged the Army to stay the course onpsychotropic drugs

The real danger said the psychologists spokesman M David Rudd dean of the college of socialand behavioral science at the University of Utah is if soldiers are frightened out of access topotentially life-saving medication

The Army surgeon generals office said no one without specific approval is allowed to go ondeployment using psychotropic drugs including antidepressants and stimulants until theyve beenstabilized Soldiers who need antipsychotic agents are not allowed to go to combat

But are those precautions enough Julie Oligschlaeger said her son Chad a Marine corporalbased at Twentynine Palms came home from his second tour in Iraq in 2007 complaining ofnightmares and hallucinations He was taking trazodone fluoxetine Seroquel Lorazepam andpropranolol among other medications

I didnt realize how many pills he was on until it was too late said Oligschlaeger Hesometimes would slur his words and I would think OK are you drinking What is going onAnd hed say Oh Im taking my pills and Im taking them when Im supposed to I never thoughtto look

In 2008 two months before Chad was scheduled to get out of the Marines start college andmarry his fiancee the young corporal was found dead on the floor of his room in the barracks Anautopsy concluded the death was accidental due to multiple-drug toxicity mdash interactions amongtoo many drugs

At the memorial service Oligschlaeger looked her sons commander in the eye and reminded himthat Chad had waited in vain for a bed in a combat stress treatment facility I asked him Whydidnt you have your eyes on your Marine she said He didnt answer me He just stood therewith his hands behind his back And he looked at me

Mental health disorders mean high-profitbusiness for prescription drug cartel

J D HeyesNatural NewsMonday April 9 2012

The Merriam-Webster dictionaryonline defines ldquoethicalrdquo as ldquoinvolvingor expressing moral approval ordisapproval (ethical judgments)conforming to accepted standards ofconductrdquo Based on a new study itseems as though the AmericanPsychiatric Association (APA) mayneed a little refresher course in ethics

According to researchers led by LisaCosgrove associate professor ofclinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston the fifth edition of the Diagnosticand Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders which is published by the APA is riddled withfinancial conflicts of interest ABC News reported

The 900-page manual on mental health known as DSM-5 is set for publication in May 2013Known as the industryrsquos bible it details the recommended treatment modalities ndash many of thempharmacological ndash for all known psychological disorders

But Cosgrove and her team which published their findings in the journal PLoS Medicine say itrsquosthe drug treatments that raised red flags because70 percentof the DSM-5 task force membersreported having ties to Big Pharma ndash and thatrsquos even after the APA required task force membersto reveal their drug company connections following the publication of DSM-4 in 1994

Looks like the disclosure requirement didnrsquot do much to shore up integrity

ldquoOrganizations like the APA have embraced transparency too quickly as the solutionrdquo Cosgrovesaid ldquoOur data show that transparency has notchanged the dynamicrdquo

Paid spokesmen for Big Pharma

The APA task force panels consist of various expertsin the field of psychiatry But the problem saysCosgrove and her research team is that many ofthese experts are also paid spokesmen or scientificadvisors for drug companies ndash either that or theyconduct research that is funded by the industry

The most conflicted panels include thosein which drugs are first-line treatmentfor disorders the study found In facttwo-thirds of the mood disorders panel83 percent of the psychotic disorderspanel and 100 percent of the sleepingdisorders panel disclosed ldquoties to thepharmaceutical companies thatmanufacture the medications used totreat these disorders or to companiesthat service the pharmaceuticalindustryrdquo according to the study

ldquoWersquore not trying to say therersquos someMachiavellian plot to bias the psychiatric taxonomyrdquo says Cosgrove who doubles as a researchfellow at HarvardlsquosEdmond J Safra Center for Ethics ldquoBut transparency alone cannot mitigateunintentional bias and the appearance of bias which impact scientific integrity and public trustrdquo

lsquoBoundary of normalityrsquo

There are other issues with the DSM-5 as well For instance itrsquos also being criticized forintroducing diagnoses some experts have said lack scientific evidence One of them Dr AllenFrances professor emeritus of psychiatry at Duke University who chaired the revisions committeefor the 1994 version said if the new additions were allowed to stand in the final version of DSM-5 they would ldquoradically and recklesslyrdquo expand psychiatric boundaries

ldquoTheyrsquore at the boundary of normalityrdquo Frances told ABC News ldquoAnd these days mostdiagnostic decisions are not made by psychiatrists trained to distinguish between the two Mostare made by primary care doctors who see a patient for about seven minutes and write aprescriptionrdquo

For instance under new criteriacontained in DSM-5 grief after the lossof a loved one mild memory loss in theelderly and frequent temper tantrums inkids would become psychiatric disordersThat would mean tens of millions moreAmericans could be labeled mentally illSo outrageous is the notion thatopponentshave started an online petitionto get some of the revisions tossed Morethan 12000 people have already signedit

David Elkins president of the AmericanPsychological AssociationlsquosSociety forHumanistic Psychology who is leading

the petition effort said using drugs forlegitimate disorders is okay

ldquoBut we are concerned about the normalkids and elderly people who are going tobe diagnosed with these disorders andtreated with psychiatric drugsrdquo he saidldquoWe think thatrsquos very very dangerousrdquo

No doubt

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