10 Anti-Depressant Related Killings

Here are the last major school shooters and the link under each name is a reputable news source that connects them all with SSRI's (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) like Prozac, Ritalin, Zoloft, Luvox, Paxil, and others:

1) May 20 1999: T.J. Solomon, a 15-year-old wounds six at Heritage High School in Conyers, Ga.. http://add.about.com/health/add/library/weekly/aa052599.htm CNN Reports That T.J. Solomon was on Ritalin.

2) April 16 1999: Shawn Cooper, a 15-year-old sophomore wounds one at Notus Junior-Senior High School in Notus, Idaho. http://www.boiseweekly.com/archive/v7i42/cope/cope_col.html Reports that Cooper was abused and medicated.

3) April 20 1999: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill thirteen and wound twenty three at Columbine High School. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/april99/antisocial04299.htm Eric Harris, The apparent leader of the attack had been on Luvox.

4) May 21, 1998: Kip Kinkel, a 15-year-old kills four and wounds twenty three at Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore.. http://www.drugawareness.org/washtimes.html Kinkle Had been taking Prozac.

5) March 24, 1998: Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, opened fire on their classmates and killed five and wounded eleven at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark..

Arkansas Online http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/jonesboro/brygolden24.html Andrew Golden's Medical Records released to Courts but not open to the public!

From Jon Rappaport of the Truthseeker foundation: http://www.nfgcc.org/schoolviolence.htm A Doctor from Georgetown University commented on Network television that one of the boys had previously been treated for violent behavior. (Treated with what?)

AND According to Arianna Huffington the following events are linked to Anti-Depressants as well:

6) Julie Marie Meade from Maryland who was shot to death by the police when they found her waving a gun at them. http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/files/070998.html

7) Ben Garris, a 16-year-old in Baltimore who stabbed his counselor to death. http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/files/070998.html

8) Kristina Fetters, a 14-year-old from Des Moines, Iowa, who stabbed her favorite great aunt in a rage that landed her a life sentence. http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/files/070998.html

9) Pfizer, The Manufacturer of Zoloft is being sued by a Kansas family for the Suicide of their 14 year old son on Zoloft. http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/files/061099.html

10) The estate of Brynn Hartman, Wife of the Saturday Night Live Comedian, Phil Hartman, is also suing Pfizer, since Mrs. Hartman had been on Zoloft when she killed her husband and herself! http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/files/061099.html

Paxil Not Safe for Children & Teens

In 2003, the FDA broadcast a warning about the dangers of teens and children using Paxil, an antidepressant drug. But still the TeenScreen program and its pharmaceutical sponsors force children and teens to take Paxil (among other drugs) under the presumption that they (the teens) are mentally ill. But considering the public warning below posted by the FDA, it leaves you to wonder: Who really IS mentally ill?

FDA Warning of 2003
IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT PATIENTS TAKING PAXIL (paroxetine hydrochloride) DO NOT SUDDENLY DISCONTINUE USE OF THE DRUG. ANY CHANGES MUST TAKE PLACE UNDER MEDICAL SUPERVISION. More on the warning here

Deceitful Laurie Flynn: TeenScreen Director

You'll be amazed at how unprofessional TeenScreen directors and key players act while not being watched. Case in point, Ms. Laurie Flynn, TeenScreen Director. An email by Laurie Flynn was obtained and made public. See how Ms. Laurie Flynn feels about the children, and the TeenScreen programs manupulative ways. Flynn, well connected to pharmaceutical companies through NAMI, now works diligently through the media and her connections in Washington, DC, to expand TeenScreen using every possible avenue. One of the tactics, which was contrived by one of TeenScreen’s PR firms, is to keep track of teen suicides all over the country and then write letters to the editors of those local newspapers to market TeenScreen and take advantage of vulnerable communities in mourning. Flynn has “authored” most of those letters and comes across as very professional and caring in these letters. However, this is how she really talks with fellow marketing allies.

Laurie Flynn's Email -
“I'm looking for a horse to ride in here! ... I need to get some kids screened—if the schools are a road block we are interested in community organizations. Next week we are talking with the Boys and Girls Club in Pinellas. ...I also think we should see if local agencies or businesses could be engaged in ‘community screenings.’ Issue here is assuring the link to follow-up…”

—Laurie Flynn, from an email to Jim McDonough

TeenScreen Documents Exposed

The goal of TeenScreen, the very controversial child screening program, is to do a mental suicide screening of every U.S. child before they graduate from high school. According to their website, they utilize screening instruments called the Diagnostic Predictive Scales (DPS) and the Columbia Health Screen (CHS).

Children as young as 9 years old are asked to answer the DPS or CHS questions. Afterwards, summary forms are then filled out by a clinician. TeenScreen's high false positive rate has many schools and parents alarmed that normal children will be labeled with mental disorders. For example the San Francisco Chronicle has just reported that "Local public schools have resisted TeenScreen. San Francisco Unified School District, for example, passed on TeenScreen because it can generate false positives and drain counseling resources. Other critics worry TeenScreen could send kids unnecessarily into treatment and land too many on psychiatric drugs."

Certainly pharmaceutical companies will benefit from mass screening of our children.

Below you can find links to all 4 documents: The DPS, DPS Summary Form, the CHS and the CHS Summary Form

The documents are being made available for educational purposes, to advance understanding of the ramifications of mass mental screening as related to human rights, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice issues. This material is distributed without profit.

The Washington Post reported in an article entitled Suicide-Risk Tests for Teens Debated on June 16, 2006. "Shaffer said the screening test he developed is now in the public domain".

Shaffer, is the psychiatrist who invented TeenScreen.

CHS-Summary Form.pdf

CHS-Questionnaire.pdf

DPS-Summary Form.pdf

DPS-Questionnaire.pdf

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No Justice for Nikki

Nikki was a vibrant 16 year old high school sophomore. Nikki had her whole life ahead of her. Her parents had planned to send her to one of the best colleges in their state. But Nikki never made it to college. In fact, Nikki never made it to the end of her sophomore year. Soon after being diagnosed as mentally ill, Nikki was prescribed several anti-psychotic drugs to help "heal" her perceived mental illness. And just as quickly, the light in Nikki's eyes started to dwindle, the innocence in her face turned gloomy. Five months after Nikki started on the medicine prescribed by doctors after taking the TeenScreen survey. Nikki was dead. A victim of a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. In her suicide note she said: "I never thought I was crazy, but the doctors said I was. The medicine they gave me made my head hurt and I began to hear voices telling me to kill myself and spare my parents the pain of having a crazy daughter. Mom, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to turn out crazy. Maybe you and dad can have a better child. One better than me..." With those words, Nikki ended her life.

Another victim of TeenScreen

School Shootings Map

This map shows school shootings all over the United States within a 10 year period of 1996-2006. The Columbine High School shootings and the Padukah, Kentucky shootings are including in this map. Mind you, it is almost 2010 and several other school shootings have taken place since then. The most shocking fact that alot of these shootings were drug induced and the children were on mind altering adult psychiatric drugs! We are in no way trying to excuse the violent acts, we are just trying to show you the REAL culprits behind all of this school shooting violence. The Bush imposed Teen Screen program and the pharmaceutical drug companies that fund them

Shocking Facts

If you are still one of those parents who do not think TeenScreen is "all that bad", take a look at these shocking facts that are the end result of a false positive result on the Teen Screen survey. Remember, it's highly likely that your adolescent normal teen will get a false positive and then put on some serious psychiatric drugs:

Did you know that:

• Eight out of 13 U.S. school shootings were committed by teens taking psychotropic drugs known to cause violent and suicidal behavior.

• At least five teens responsible for school massacres had undergone a psychiatric program called “anger management” or other psychological behavior modification programs such as “death education.”

• For decades, schools around the world have used “death education,” a psychological experiment in which the children are made to discuss suicide, what they would like placed in their coffins, and made to write their own epitaphs in an effort to “get kids more comfortable with death.” Anger management aims at stopping aggressive or violent behavior but virtually no reliable information exists to prove it can eliminate the problem. In one class, a boy beat up a classmate so badly that six days later the boy was still in the hospital.

• 18-year-old Eric Harris (right) and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold took “anger management,” “death education” and psychiatric drugs. As students at Columbine High School, Colorado, they were asked to imagine their own death. After that “exercise” Harris had a dream where he and Klebold went on a shooting rampage in a shopping center. In addition to attending these classes, Harris was taking an antidepressant drug known to cause violent behavior. He even wrote about his killing spree dream and handed it in to the psychology teacher. Not long after, Harris and Klebold acted out the dream by shooting and killing 12 students and a teacher, and wounding 23 others.

• On May 21, 1998, in Oregon, USA, 14-year-old Kip Kinkel shot and killed his parents and then went on a wild shooting spree at his high school, which left two dead and 22 injured. He was taking a psychiatric drug and had undergone a psychological “anger management” program.

• April 16, 1999: Notus, Idaho: 15-year-old Shawn Cooper fired two shotgun rounds in his school narrowly missing students; he was taking a mix of antidepressants.

• May 20, 1999, Conyers, Georgia: 15-year-old T.J. Solomon was being treated with a mix of antidepressants when he opened fire on and wounded six of his classmates.

• March 7, 2000, Williamsport, Pennsylvania: 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was on the antidepressant Prozac when she blasted away at fellow students wounding one.

• March 22, 2001, El Cajon, California: 18-year-old Jason Hoffman was on two antidepressants, Effexor and Celexa, when he opened fire at his high school, wounding five. Hoffman had also undergone an “anger management” program.

• April 10, 2001: Wahluke, Washington: 16-year-old Cory Baadsgaard took a rifle to his high school, and held 23 classmates and a teacher hostage. Cory had been on a high dose of an antidepressant.

• March 21, 2005: 16-year-old Native American school shooter Jeff Weise was the 8th school shooter who had been taking a mind-altering antidepressant. He killed 9 people, injured about 10 others before shooting himself.
  

TeenScreen Parents Speak Out: Miranda Wilson

Hello, my name is Miranda Wilson. I was given the opportunity to tell you how I feel about the Bush Administration's "Teen Screen" program. I'm grateful for this opportunity because I feel it's important for parents and families to be educated about the TRUTH behind Teen Screen's "mental health screening" in schools. And it's not a pretty side of the truth whatsoever.

Miranda's View---

What saddens me as a parent about teen screen is that they are only out for themselves they do not seem to out here trying to help our children neither to they seem to be concerned about the welfare of these kids. During one of their interviews a child is asked this question, “Do you ever feel nervous in front of an audience?”

Many adults are nervous in front of an audience and that does not mean that we have mental disorders. So why should it mean that for a child? Why would anyone put to question a child’s mental state in their time of peek growth? Some kids act out for attention, or because they’re being bullied at school.

This does not mean that they need a "mental check up" or that they need medications. Sometimes just sitting down and talking with your child instead of at him can really be helpful. These days, being a teen is hard enough and it’s harder when they have someone other than their parent questioning them about personal issues or a "doctor" drugging them up.

I cannot put my child through such harsh treatment and I wouldn't expect any other loving parent to do so either, I will not allow these pharmaceutical companies to get rich on my child. Parents need to think twice before allow these people to change the lives of their children forever. Once you get into this situation it’s hard to get out.

Jake's Diary

Dear Diary,

I honestly think it's stupid to write in a diary. After all, diary writing is for girls. But my counselors told me that students "like me" with mental issues need to record their feelings. So here I go:

It all started when my parents started fighting. My stupid dad cheated on my mom and she found out about it. Man! I was so mad at him. How could he take that beautiful woman that God gave him and toss her out with the garbage...? Anyways, he started on my case, and it made me depressed. I couldn't sleep at home, so I slept at school. I couldn't eat at home, and pure worry about my mom, caused my stomach to feel not hungry.

I became angry every time I saw her cry and angrier when I saw him in town one day with his girlfriend. I confronted him when he came home and told him how I felt. I wanted him dead. Then one day I get called to the office and the counselor gives me this form to fill out. I said NO WAY whatever! But they gave me a free movie ticket to go see anything I wanted to see. I took the survey.

Later I was contacted at home by a doctor of So called Medicine and Psychiatry. My mom was very worried, but I assured her: "There's nothing wrong with me, Mom!" Or at least I thought there wasn't. A week later I was on these kick ass drugs that make me feel invincible. I almost feel strong enough to take on my dad. He's going to pay for what he did to us. I'll make sure of that.

Anyways, I'm getting tired of writing... These meds make me numb in the brain. I can't stop thinking about hurting my dad more now. Maybe the test was right. Maybe I do have a mental problem. Who knows. I'm going to go get a drink now. A glass of booze and a pill makes me fly. And I like that feeling. At least I don't have to hear my mom crying.

Peace out,
Jake

TeenScreen: A Parent's Testimonial

Teen Screen wants to reward my child with free movie passes in order to sign a waiver for him to get screened for mental health disorders. It's called a mental physical. If I want to take my child to get any type of physical I will do that on my own. Teen screen has put into my child's head that he has a mental problem.

NOW he is acting very depressed and frustrated because he thinks that there is something wrong with him. How dare these people put this worry and falsehoods in my child's head!! Kids have enough to worry about as it is, now they have to worry that if they have a bad day at school, their teachers are going to assume that they are mental.

I do not believe that these children are being helped. I do not believe that they are in this out of concern for our children, but I do believe that teen screen is out for their own personal gain. That is to combine their clinical knowledge with pharmaceutical companies to diagnose kids with some fake mental disorder in order to get the big bucks. Teen Screen is not the best way to go in order to find help for our children they are in this business for selfish reasons and the children are not benefiting from what ever it is these people are trying to accomplish.

I would never allow my child to go through such torture. If my child needs help, I will go through the proper channels to get my child the help he needs; and drugs aren't always the answer. The children can become depended on these drugs for their whole life and if you read up on the side effects of the medications, they are worse then the actual problem!!! I will keep my child away from any type of teen screening.

Harriette Miller, California

Drug Induced Shootings?

These poor kids are put on psychotic drugs and are induced into a violent state of mind. Teen Screen and it false positive results cause all of this. Watch and Learn...

Pharmaceutical Drug Pushers

When we think of pharmaceutical companies, we may think of them as a positive influence on our economy and society as a whole. After all, they provide us with some of the best medicines and remedies when we are ill. They provide our children with cold relief when needed, and pain relief when necessary. When we are sick we count on the pharmaceutical companies.

But what about when we are not sick. What usually happens when you give a person who is not sick medicine for a particular ailment that they do not have? Usually it will make them sick. Well, another side effect that could happen, if given the "right" kind of drugs is that the person will experience a drug high.

These days, kids and teens are getting hooked on prescription drugs that are being prescribed to them for their "mental illness" that is not there. Parents think that marijuana is a big problem with kids, but think again. Prescription drugs are becoming the most popular drugs in school. Most of these prescription drugs are being prescribed by these pharmaceutical companies under the pretense that the child is mentally ill. The child or teen then gets hooked on the medications such as Xanax and Zoloft, and in turn shares with their friends, and so on and so forth... A vicious cycle begins!

The Teen Screen program is very dangerous for America's youth. Many American teenagers and youth are being misdiagnosed as Mental Ill and put on these mentally crippling drugs. It's time to wake up to what is really going on here with the Teen Screen program.

Drugs and Teen Screen

What role does drugs play is this screening, most of these teens screened are eventually medicated so the pharmaceutical companies rack in some serious cash through these teens. Insured or not the pharmaceutical companies are also working with these mental health professionals to continue to make money.

The sale of anti-depressants will continue to rise even after some of these drugs are said to cause suicidal tendencies. Isn't that what they are supposed to prevent? This is a multi-billion dollar industry drugging up children.It is supposed to prevent harmful tendencies or actions to themselves. These drugs may in fact cause them to harm themselves anyway. How is it (medicating the child) in the child's best interests at this time?

In a British Journal it said that "antidepressants are eroding our well being and dismiss life as a simple spark of synaptic electricity." Point blank we should see these kids as the normal energetic kids that they are, not some robotic, zombie-like individual that depends on a drug that is supposed to help them to function better. All the while making the pharmaceutical companies richer.

Teen Screen makes the pharmaceutical companies richer, at the expense of our children. Is it worth it

More Parents are Getting Hip to the Scam

As the years progress, more parents are getting hip to the scam of Teen Screen. Teen Screen among many American protesters has received the nickname, "Teen Scam", and rightfully so according to thousands of parents and kids who protest the government program. Recognizing it as a way to put more kids on psychiatric drugs, more parents are saying NO to Teen Screen.


Protesters in Anaheim, CA and Nevada


Niagara Falls, NY

Westhaven


The overall message that these parents and thousands of others across the country are trying to relay is: "We love our children! Stop misdiagnosing them to boost your drug sales!"

The Funding Source Behind Teen Screen

The Teen Screen program started making headlines as an ill-conceived and unscientific method of screening for mental illnesses among school aged children and teenagers. The first claims were that the Teen Screen Program could identify children at risk for volatile behavior and suicide. Of course they would need a pretty strong argument in order to get funding for this unscientific method of personality profiling. Someone came to their rescue however. It may shock you, then again it may not shock you to know who it was that came to the Teen Screen Program's aid - The pharmaceutical drug industry.

That's right! Monies filtered into the program can be directly tracked back to the pharmaceutical drug industry. What is more, certain members of those drug companies actually helped develop the survey questionnaire which is given to youngsters who participate in the Teen Screen Program.

Does that really surprise you that the main program that puts young children on medicines like: Ritalin, Zoloft, Paxil, and Xanax; is funded by the very pharmaceutical companies that manufacture these drugs. Is it really a coincidence that the developers of the Teen Screen Program are paid members and contributors of these very companies?

Many parents of young children are waking up to the fact that the Teen Screen Program is just an elaborate way to bolster the sales of prescription psychiatric drugs in America. Now is the time to wake up and realize the conspiracy. Join the "No to Teen Screen" Petition and let your voice be heard!

The Face behind TeenScreen

Teen Screen was developed by psychiatrist Dr. David Shaffer. Dr. Shaffer is one of the best in his field, and he is the developer of the program, yet he cannot back the Teen Screen program 100%. Why? Because this governmental funded program is full of inconsistencies, and even its founder knows this. Case in point, here are two quotes from a few years ago by the good doctor himself.
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Dr. David Shaffer is not only the developer of the TeenScreen Program, but also a spokesman for the manufacturer of Prozac, and is also a paid consultant for 3 pharmaeutical companies, most notable GlaxoSmithKline.

Dr. David Shaffer on False Positive Results
Shaffer says that Teen Screen "does identify a whole bunch of kids who aren't really suicidal, so you get a lot of false-positives. And that means if you're running a large program at a school, you're going to cripple the program because you're going to have too many kids you have to do something about."

When asked how he talks to people who express concern over False-Positives being prescribed medicine, he says: "I think that standing by itself that criticism is meaningless because we don't know what harm the antidepressants do, if any, and we don't know who they do harm to".

Shocking BBC Radio Broadcast on TeenScreen

Some may wonder if all the major school shootings could have been prevented. It is alarming that many of them could have been prevented! If we look back on the school shootings that made headlines in America and abroad, it's scary to admit that all of the children were on some kind of medication utilized by the FDA. For instance, the Columbine High School shooters were both on antidepressants. Eric Harris, one of the shooters, was on the strong medication Zoloft and then later Luvox at the time of the killings. The other killer, Dylan Klebold was on Zoloft and Paxil - two very strong adult medications!

Take a moment to listen to these alarming statements by the BBC radio. (8:23)

Why is TeenScreen So Controversial?

TeenScreen came onto the scene as something that was state of the art and revoluntionary for screening for mental illnesses in school-aged children. Soon however, the truth was revealed. The Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia stated that the suicide rate for children ages 10-19 is rapidly declining. This fact contradicts the claims that TeenScreen can screen and identify a child (or teen) at risk of suicide. In fact, TeenScreen interferes with the workings of the American family. The US government and its TeenScreen program is putting its business where it doesn't belong - In the American family's household.

A computer is used to screen our children for high risk behavior such as suicide. Computers have been known to be wrong. The US government is making grave mistake by entrusting the future well-being of our children to computers. The result of the TeenScreen test will follow your child for the rest of his or her life, affecting future relationships, jobs, opportunities and more. Are you confident enough in this program to allow your child to take it? If you are, how well will he or she do? The honest truth is: There isn't a way to know for sure how the child will fair for the test. But as stated before, the results will follow them well into adulthood.

TeenScreen Loses Court Battle, Teen Victorious

Chelsea Rhoades, was a 15-year-old sophomore at Penn High School in Indiana in 2004, when she was given the TeenScreen "psychological assessment". Chelsea says she was pulled out of class, told to sign a form, and never informed that the TeenScreen "test" was voluntary.

When Chelsea had completed the screening, she was informed that she had "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and social anxiety disorder, and that she should seek treatment from a specific group.

Her psychiatric disorder diagnosis, after TeenScreen's 10 minute questionaire, and it surprised Chelsea and her family. The "diagnosis" came because of Chelsea's answers on the test stating that she liked to clean and didn't like to "party."

Her psychiatric disorder diagnosis, after TeenScreen's 10 minute questionaire, and it surprised Chelsea and her family. The "diagnosis" came because of Chelsea's answers on the test stating that she liked to clean and didn't like to "party."

"TeenScreen" is a public school program that subjects teenagers to psychological evaluation, labeling, stigmatizing and ultimately mind-altering medications. TeenScreen is marketed as a "voluntary mental health check-up," ostensibly to identify teenagers at risk for suicide in order to channel them into profitable and potentially harmful medication. It is a marketing dream-come-true for the drug industry anxious to increase sales. Though supposedly voluntary, and despite assurances that parental rights would be respected, the psychological evaluation is given to students without meaningful notice and consent. Schools in 43 states have adopted TeenScreen or other, similar mental health screening programs.

Chelsea Rhodes and her parents, Teresa and Michael Allen Rhoades, filed suit against the school explaining that their rights under Indiana (and constitutional) law were violated when the school gave the test without obtaining their consent. The Rhoades family sought damages due to the defendants' not obtaining affirmative consent before testing, and for their diagnosing Chelsea without due care.

Chelsea was never told the screening was "voluntary".TeenScreen says that Chelsea consented because they (teenScreen) printed a form in the November issue of the school's newsletter. TeenScreen uses a ruse known as "passive" consent, whereby the school presumes consent unless parents happen to notice and fill out this form and return it to the school. The school also has the child sign a consent form before the test, stating that the teen screen was voluntary. But NO student in the whole school was shown to have said "no" to the TeenScreen test!
The public school defendants moved for summary judgment, expecting to win. They insisted that "TeenScreen" was optional and confidential, and that there was no compulsion or harm.
The court rejected its motion and held in favor of parental rights in Rhoades v. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp.

The court was impressed by the absence of any evidence that any students were able to decline taking the test. The court also found it significant that the form signed by the students stated, "If I have any further questions about this project, I may call NAME, NUMBER OF PROJECT COORDINATOR." The name and number of a project coordinator had not been filled in, and apparently no one had read the form closely enough to realize this. "Therefore, it is a further indication that the students simply signed the form because they were told to do so, and did not understand that they had a choice," the court held.

The court expressly rejected the Ninth Circuit's "no-rights-beyond-the-threshold-of-the-school-door" approach taken in Fields v. Palmdale School District. Instead, the court recognized that a Third Circuit decision, which quoted Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund's amicus brief, declared that Fields' rejection of parental rights is "not of comparable gravity to [the parental rights] protected under existing Supreme Court precedent." (C.N. v. Ridgewood Board of Education, 2005)

This case proceeds to trial if the school does not offer an attractive settlement to the family.