ACT #1: Over 90 percent of school shootings have
been linked to psychiatric medications with danger-
ous side effects that include violent behavior and
suicidal and homicidal thoughts.
This is a well-documented pattern, and these side
effects are a possible contributor to, if not cause of,
the perpetrators’ violent behavior. However, it’s not
being addressed by politicians or the mainstream
media, and consequently most people are not even
aware of it as a possibility. Selective serotonin reuptake
inhibitors (SSRIs), a class of antidepressants, have
been identified by doctors like Peter R. Breggin, a
Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time
consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health,
as the primary culprits.
Writing in 2003 in Ethical Human Sciences and
Services, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Breggin
concluded SSRI drugs could be a factor in suicide, vio-
lence and other forms of extreme abnormal behavior,
as evidenced in case reports, controlled clinical trials,
and epidemiological studies in children and adults.
A peer-reviewed study drawn from reports to the
Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Adverse event
Reporting System (AeRS) concluded that acts of vio-
lence toward others are a genuine and serious adverse
drug event. The violent cases reviewed in the study
were reported between 2004 and 2009. They included
387 reports of homicide, 404 physical assaults, 896
homicidal ideation reports and 223 cases described as
violence-related symptoms. Antidepressants were the
drugs most strongly and consistently implicated.
In addition, there are others who have established
these patterns. For example SSRIStories.com has a
listing of more than 4,800 news stories, mainly crimi-
nal in nature, that have appeared in the media or as
part of FDA testimony, in which antidepressants are
mentioned. It includes a subcategory listing of school
shootings linked to psychiatric drug use.