Why Pharmaceutical Drugs Are Not the Answer to Stress & Depression

"The major pharmaceutical companies have developed a set of drugs called selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) to 'manage the symptoms' associated with stress and depression. You might know them as Prozac®, Zoloft®, Paxil®, and numerous others. Prozac is widely prescribed for children—many children under the age of 3 have already been given Prozac. Thanks to millions of dollars in marketing and promotion, and our own marvelous tendency to believe in magic bullets, we have become a 'Prozac Nation.'

But not without cost. SSRIs cause mania and delusions of grandeur in one out of every twenty-five children taking the drugs, as cited on the warning label for Luvox in the Physicians’ Desk Reference. Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of Prozac, had strong indications it caused violence as early as the 1980s, but suppressed the information until it was leaked to the British Medical Journal in 2004. In 70 percent of all murder/suicides involving women and children, the women were on SSRIs. There are many other examples of the detrimental effects of antidepressants and SSRIs:

• In July 2004, Emiri Padron was on Zoloft when she smothered her ten-month-old daughter with a stuffed animal and then stabbed herself.
• Specialized testing during the autopsy of Eric Harris, one of the shooters at the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, showed 'therapeutic' levels of Luvox in his blood. In addition, he was also taking cough syrup. The interaction between cough medications containing dextromethorphan (found in Robitussin, for example) and the SSRIs can greatly increase the possibility of a toxic reaction known as serotonin syndrome, leading to reactions similar to those who have PCP (Angel Dust) reactions.
• Kip Kinkle, who in 1998 killed his parents and two classmates and then wounded 25 others at Thurston High School in Oregon, was on SSRIs.
• Brynn Hartmann, the actor Phil Hartmann’s wife, was on Zoloft when she shot her husband and then committed suicide in May 1998.
• In March 1998, Matthew Beck went on a bloody rampage at his office, the Connecticut Lottery Corporation headquarters, killing four senior lottery officials before committing suicide. He was on two antidepressants, including Luvox.
• In October 1997, Luke Woodham was on an SSRI when he killed three people, including his mother, and wounded six others in Pearl, Mississippi.
• In April 2007, Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people and wounded a further 29 at Virginia Tech University before committing suicide in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. He too was on antidepressants."

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