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Does the made up condition ADHD or ADD cause murders? Are the drug companies and psychiatrists to blame?

If you haven't noticed, most haven't since the media covers it up, almost ALL of the cases of mass murder in recent years involve one or more drugs linked to depression and or the treatment of ADD or ADHD. Are the corrupt doctors and pharmaceutical companies to blame? Or stupid Americans who buy this crap? Andrea Yates, in one of the most heartbreaking crimes in modern history, drowned all five of her children – aged 7 years down to 6 months – in a bathtub. Insisting inner voices commanded her to kill her kids, she had become increasingly psychotic over the course of several years. Yates had been taking the antidepressant Effexor. In November 2005, more than four years after Yates drowned her children, Effexor manufacturer Wyeth Pharmaceuticals quietly added "homicidal ideation" to the drug's list of "rare adverse events." But "rare" is defined by the FDA as occurring in less than one in 1,000 people. And since, according to an Associated Press report, about 19.2 million for Effexor were filled in the U.S. alone in 2005, that means statistically almost 20,000 Americans could experience "homicidal ideation" – that is, murderous thoughts – as a result of taking just this one antidepressant drug. Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking the widely prescribed antidepressant Luvox when he and fellow student Dylan Klebold went on a hellish school shooting rampage in 1999, killing 12 students and a teacher and wounding 24 others before turning their guns on themselves. Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals concedes that 4 percent of children and youth taking Luvox developed "mania" – a serious mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion – during short-term controlled clinical trials. Authorities investigating Cho Seung-Hui, who murdered 32 at Virginia Tech in April, reportedly found "prescription drugs" for the treatment of psychological problems among his possessions. Joseph Aust, Cho's roommate, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch Cho's routine each morning had included taking prescription drugs. Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking the widely prescribed antidepressant Luvox when he and fellow student Dylan Klebold went on a hellish school shooting rampage in 1999, killing 12 students and a teacher and wounding 24 others before turning their guns on themselves. Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals concedes that 4 percent of children and youth taking Luvox developed "mania" – a serious mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion – during short-term controlled clinical trials. Authorities investigating Cho Seung-Hui, who murdered 32 at Virginia Tech in April, reportedly found "prescription drugs" for the treatment of psychological problems among his possessions. Joseph Aust, Cho's roommate, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch Cho's routine each morning had included taking prescription drugs. Patrick Purdy's 1989 schoolyard shooting rampage in Stockton, Calif., was the catalyst for the legislative frenzy to ban "semiautomatic assault weapons" in California and the nation. The 25-year-old Purdy, who murdered five children and wounded 30, had been on Amitriptyline, an antidepressant, as well as the antipsychotic drug Thorazine. Kip Kinkel, 15, murdered his parents in 1998 and the next day went to his school, Thurston High in Springfield, Ore., and opened fire on his classmates, killing two and wounding 22 others. He had been prescribed both Prozac and Ritalin. In 1988, 31-year-old Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Ill., killing one child and wounding six. She had been taking the antidepressant Anafranil as well as Lithium, long used to treat mania. In Paducah, Ky., in late 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal, traveled to Heath High School and started shooting students in a prayer meeting on Ritalin

Public Comments

1. its not a made up condition its a real condition
2. I submit that it is everyone's stupid fault for these problems. Doctors because most don't research the illnesses objectively. Pharmaceutical co's because they're just in it for the money and sell BS drugs to people (which the side effects are often more dangerous than the condition to be "treated"). Americans because they look for any excuse as to why they are such losers and believe everything they're told without taking the time to look something like that up. You know, you'd think health would be pretty important to people, but whatever, take a pill, it'll make it all better.
3. This is something for the Mental Health board no? I don't think ADHD or ADD is treated with anti-depressants, but I see your point.
4. -- Effexor is not an ADD / ADHD drug. -- your implied contention that many/most/all prescription drugs are ADD / ADHD drugs is wrong. Effexor is an anti-depressent. and was likely quite appropriate. SO, having proved that you've no idea what you're talking about, can we safely ignore your rant about ADD / ADHD?
5. you bet ye.
6. Number one, ADD and ADHD are not "made up" conditions. They are real conditions, just as high blood pressure is a very real condition. Number two, all the drugs you mentioned aren't to be used as treatment for ADD/ADHD, with the exception of Ritalin. So while you may be on to something about anti-depressants contributing to violent behavior, you lost all credibility to your rant by throwing in ADD/ADHD. If you don't know what you're talking about, and you're just going to copy and paste facts you read on the internet, don't talk. PLEASE.
7. Have you heard that Adhd and all these conditions that are being treated by these drugs are really caused by bad nutrition and that studies have shown that children with these conditions improve dramatically when given good nutritional food and also green tea can improve their condition big time. So what is happening is people aren't eating right and then they get a pill and it makes it worse or makes them a zombie, so get the kids off the junk food and grow a garden and eat some fresh healthy food.