December 27, 2012 Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings, addressed the House Judiciary subcommittee on May 27, 1999. What he said was painfully truthful: Since the dawn of creation, there has been both good and evil in the hearts of men and women, and we all contain those seeds: We contain the
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December 19, 2012 New York magazine has added this note below an article on Adam Lanza. Update: Over the weekend the Daily News quoted Adam Lanza’s uncle as saying he was taking an anti-psychotic drug called Fanapt. The Daily News subsequently deleted the quote. The deletion does not necessarily mean that the claim was false. The drug company would certainly have applied pressure on the paper to remove
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Updated – January 18, 2011 A parody of a Zoloft ad by DrugAwareness.org Loughner reportedly used pot. But far less noted is the probability that he was also on anti-depressants. The problem with anti-depressants is not that they don’t help a lot of people, but with factors we prefer not to discuss. For example, what if anti-depressants were a significant
» Read moreMay 5, 2010 The following chapter, “How Do SSRI Antidepressants Work?” is my edited version of the third chapter of a book by Ann Blake Tracy about the harmful and dangerous effects of Prozac and other SSRI medications. I edited Tracy’s book about Prozac in 2006-2007. The following chapter is from the (Bollyn) edited version of the book, which has not been published. Chapter 3 SSRI Drugs
» Read moreFebruary 16, 2008 When I heard that there had been another shooting on a college campus I knew that it was drug related; they all are. A couple years ago, when there were three such shootings in a month and I had found evidence that they were all related to anti-depressant medications, my editors in Washington, at American Free Press, did
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