Why are children killing while taking SSRI's? It is a question we must ask. There is a reason.

Before you give your child an SSRI, please read what is happening with Paxil - Seroxat. Click Here

RESPONSE TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, Subcommittee on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Committee on Quality Improvement
Policy, Statement entitled "Clinical Practice Guideline: Treatment of the
School-Aged Child With Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder" [PEDIATRICS.
2001;108: 1033-1044 (October)] by Dr. Fred Baughman Jr. MD, Neurology, Child Neurology Fellow, American Academy of Neurology. Click Here

A FEW EXAMPLES OF WHAT PROZAC AND RITALIN HAS GIVEN US

See School Shootings for more information

On April 20, 1999 two high school students in Littleton, Colorado went on a shooting spree in the "safe" confines of a suburban high school. Both of the young men involved in this tragedy had undergone "counseling" and "anger Management counseling" during the previous year. Eric Harris, one of the killers, had been prescribed psychotropic anti-depressant drugs.

    May 21, 1998 another young student, 14 year old Kip Kinkel, goes on a shooting spree in Springfield, Oregon. 2 dead 22 injured. Kip had been taking Prozac and Ritalin. This young man also shot and killed his parents. On November 11, 1999 Kip Kinkel was sentenced to over 100 years in prison. Where was the doctor that prescribed him Prozac and Ritalin at his sentencing? The parents and friends of those killed or wounded would have loved to ask a few questions, I am sure.

    March 24, 1998 two boys age 11 and 13 open fire from the woods near their school. The boys shot 14 people that day, killing 5. The boys were being educated with the new Outcome Based Education (OBE) endorsed by the Psychiatric community.

    September 27, 1997 a 16 year old New Jersey boy, Sam Manzie, rapes and strangles an 11 year old boy to death. The 11 year old was selling door to door for the Parent-Teacher-Association. Manzie was under psychiatric care at the time and being "medicated."

    February 19, 1996 Timmy Becton, 10, used his three year old niece as a shield to protect himself from a sheriff's deputy. Timmy was aiming a shot gun at the deputy. Timmy Becton had been seeing a psychiatrist since January to cure his dislike of school. Timmy was put on PROZAC. 

    This scenario goes on and on.

    WHERE IS THIS TAKING US?

    After the Littleton, Colorado incident, psychiatrists are called in to "help" the high school students with "grief counseling." That meant prescribing more Prozac and Ritalin. 

A Message from Dr. Tracy...

    As if the people of Littleton have not suffered enough via the Luvox-induced nightmare of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, now they must go through their own SSRI-induced nightmares!!!! While in Littleton last month I was told by one of the teachers at Columbine that close to
half of their students are now on something to cope with the Luvox-induced tragedy carried out by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

    Oct. 21 we heard that a friend of the boys was arrested for making threats about finishing the job for Eric and Dylan. Now we hear that one of the mothers of a wounded student has committed one of the most impulsive suicides I have heard of to date. The striking impulsive compulsion to die coupled with the personality changes and loss of the ability to cope, makes it clear to me that this is without doubt another SSRI-induced tragedy!

How many more?

How many more?

    How many more must die before the bloodshed ends? If you have been afraid to speak out on this issue, PLEASE do not allow your silence to contribute to these tragedies any longer!!! We must all warn all we know that this is a clear and very present danger that MUST end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, Executive Director,
International Coalition for Drug Awareness

Another Article by Dr. Tracy

    This cycle is continuing over and again. 

WHAT HAPPENED TO CHILDHOOD PRANKS? 

    Be late for class and it is "Conduct Disorder". If you can't read on the correct level for your grade you have "Serious Reading Disorder". This is a catch 22 with Outcome Based Education's approach to learning. Your child can't win. "Serious Emotional Disorder" "Learning Disorder" "Attention Deficit Disorder" "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" are all codified today in the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the section on Mental Disorders (DSM) of the International Classification of Diseases. The DSM was first published in 1952 with a list of 112 maladies-the 1994 issue specifies more than 370 disorders. 

    Would you and I make it through Public School today without being put on Prozac or Ritalin?

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