Nine years ago Dr. Christopher Lyden wrote an article claiming that every incident of a school shooting or act of extreme violence involved the perpetrator being on “psychotropic drugs” (mood altering medications, like anti-depressants). The local media in Philadelphia was not interested in printing it because it was too ‘controversial and inflammatory.’ He later created a PowerPoint presentation for other doctors around the country to use in their local communities to teach people about the problems of treating ADD/ADHD with Ritalin and psychotropic drugs. Such advice went largely unheeded. Since then, there have been thousands of additional incidents of violence associated with the use of psychotropic drugs in general, and with anti-depressants specifically. The relationship between these very common drugs and violence (homicide and suicide) appears to be more than coincidental. It is so consistent that some court cases have established it to be causal (one directly causing the other).

How does this affect you? People you know are on these drugs. One out of eight Americans has been on or is currently taking an anti-depressant!  You or a family member may be one of them. Your children and/or friends will likely be encouraged to take them at some point.

I urge you to click on the link below and see the volume of articles and cases confirming the vast number of incidents of violence associated with antidepressants. The list goes on, not by a few dozen, not even by hundreds of cases, but by the thousands and thousands. Every case of school shootings and violence committed by a young person seems to have been related to SSRI use. Not some–all of them–were taking some type of prescribed psychotropic drugs. These drugs are known to induce “violent behavior, psychosis, hallucinations, suicide, homicidal thoughts and ideation, delusions, altered affect (emotional state)”… and on and on. These, and many other similar ’side effects’ are actually listed in the fine print of the drug inserts. Any wonder why people on these drugs commit acts they normally would not?

The PDR(the drug reference bible for physicians) strongly warns against putting anyone under 18 years of age on SSRIs (anti-depressants), because it can increase their risk of committing suicide up to three-fold, yet over 6 million young people in America now take prescribed psychotropic drugs! Children as young as one year old are now given ‘peppermint-flavored’ anti-depressants! (Why?) I have seen perfectly normal patients go stark raving mad–truly psychotic–within days of starting an anti-depressant (prescribed by another physician).

Please share this with those you know to help stop one of the biggest (legal) drug problems in America. A few thousand people die each year from illegal drugs, while over 200,000 Americans die every year as a result of their prescribed medications. Forward this to friends and family.

Dr. Wilson