copenhagen
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In light of the recent shootings in Illinois which I am quite sure the anti's will try to blame on guns, I submit the following as taken from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoxetine
I watched the interview of Steve Kazmierczak's girlfriend, and she said that the only drug he had been on recently was Fluoxetine, or Prozac. This interview is available on CNN at:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/02/18/bts.niu.shooter.girlfriend.cnn
Now, I would also like to point out this quote from Wikipedia as well:
Being as it seems from reading about Steve that violence was totally out of his character, and being as he was taking a drug which the manufacturers knew could cause violence yet continued to pedal to the public, I ask you, who really is the villain here? Guns? Steve? Parenting? Or...... Prozac? It isn't like tobacco... people get prescribed Prozac by a doctor and are told that it will help them!
It makes me wonder why the media is not digging here and pointing out the evils of these drugs which are sometimes almost being forced down people's throats who were probably just going through some hard times and would have been fine with out the drug . . . in my humble opinion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoxetine
Fluoxetine and violence
"In 1989, Joseph Wesbecker shot dead eight people and injured 12 others before killing himself at his place of work in Kentucky. Wesbecker had been taking the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant fluoxetine for four weeks before these homicides, and this led to a legal action against the makers of fluoxetine, Eli Lilly [44]. The case was tried and settled in 1994, and as part of the settlement a number of pharmaceutical company documents about drug-induced activation were released into the public domain. Subsequent legal cases...have further raised the possibility of a link between antidepressant use and violence." [45]
I watched the interview of Steve Kazmierczak's girlfriend, and she said that the only drug he had been on recently was Fluoxetine, or Prozac. This interview is available on CNN at:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/02/18/bts.niu.shooter.girlfriend.cnn
Now, I would also like to point out this quote from Wikipedia as well:
The signs of violence and suicidality have existed since Prozac was tested in premarketing trials. In May 1984, Germany’s regulatory agency (Bundesgesundheitsamt, BGA) rejected Prozac as “totally unsuitable for treating depression.” In July 1985, Eli Lilly’s own data analysis—from a pool of 1,427 patients—showed high incidence of adverse drug effects and evidence of drug-induced violence in some patients. (Eli Lilly internal analysis submitted to the Joachim Wernicke (July 2, 1985)
Being as it seems from reading about Steve that violence was totally out of his character, and being as he was taking a drug which the manufacturers knew could cause violence yet continued to pedal to the public, I ask you, who really is the villain here? Guns? Steve? Parenting? Or...... Prozac? It isn't like tobacco... people get prescribed Prozac by a doctor and are told that it will help them!
It makes me wonder why the media is not digging here and pointing out the evils of these drugs which are sometimes almost being forced down people's throats who were probably just going through some hard times and would have been fine with out the drug . . . in my humble opinion.
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