Whille mass killers generally have guns in their hands, another commonality is that they often have psychiatric drugs in their blood.
Part of what's new is the widespread use of psychiatric drugs.
As WND.com's David Kupelian put it Thursday, the following is par for the course: As information about a "Perpetrator emerges, a relative confides to a newspaper that the 'troubled youth' who committed the mass murder was on psychiatric medications - you know, those powerful, little understood, mind-altering drugs with fearsome side effects including 'suicidal ideation' and even 'homicidal ideation.'".
What about pharmaceuticals' contributions to mass shootings? Of course, correlation doesn't mean causation, but it can provide clues as to where causation may lie - and the correlation between mass shooters and psychiatric drug use certainly exists.
"Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking Luvox - like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor and many others, a modern and widely prescribed type of antidepressant drug called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs." Along with fellow student Dylan Klebold, Harris shot 13 to death and wounded 24 in a headline-grabbing 1999 rampage.
Of course, also relating to correlation, there's a chicken-or-egg question here: Is it that taking psychiatric drugs makes a person more likely to go crazy and commit murderous rampages, or is it that crazy people who are candidates for committing murderous rampages are more likely to be prescribed psychiatric drugs? In reality, most likely it's both.
Having said this, it's unlikely that psychiatric drugs are entirely to blame for mass shootings, for much has changed during the last many decades.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/28307-from-prozac-to-parkland-are-psychiatric-drugs-causing-mass-shootings
Part of what's new is the widespread use of psychiatric drugs.
As WND.com's David Kupelian put it Thursday, the following is par for the course: As information about a "Perpetrator emerges, a relative confides to a newspaper that the 'troubled youth' who committed the mass murder was on psychiatric medications - you know, those powerful, little understood, mind-altering drugs with fearsome side effects including 'suicidal ideation' and even 'homicidal ideation.'".
What about pharmaceuticals' contributions to mass shootings? Of course, correlation doesn't mean causation, but it can provide clues as to where causation may lie - and the correlation between mass shooters and psychiatric drug use certainly exists.
"Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking Luvox - like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor and many others, a modern and widely prescribed type of antidepressant drug called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs." Along with fellow student Dylan Klebold, Harris shot 13 to death and wounded 24 in a headline-grabbing 1999 rampage.
Of course, also relating to correlation, there's a chicken-or-egg question here: Is it that taking psychiatric drugs makes a person more likely to go crazy and commit murderous rampages, or is it that crazy people who are candidates for committing murderous rampages are more likely to be prescribed psychiatric drugs? In reality, most likely it's both.
Having said this, it's unlikely that psychiatric drugs are entirely to blame for mass shootings, for much has changed during the last many decades.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/28307-from-prozac-to-parkland-are-psychiatric-drugs-causing-mass-shootings
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