The school shootings in Red Lake, Minn., leave one feeling a little sick. While everyone is looking for someone or something to blame, I believe there is a hidden culprit.
Most blame has to fall on the shooter, Jeff Weise, but the fact Weise was on psychiatric drugs definitely is a factor. Weise was on Prozac, an antidepressant known to cause suicide and violence. The Food and Drug Administration requires a “black box” warning about the increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in children and adolescents taking antidepressants.
The Star has noted that Prozac “is the only antidepressant found to be safe and effective for children.” That Prozac somehow escaped the FDA’s black box labeling is irrelevant when one looks at the long list of Prozac killing sprees and suicides. The list starts as early as 1989 with Joseph Wesbecker in Louisville, Ky.
If one looks, one can find many experts speaking out on the dangers of Prozac. The New York Psychiatric Institute’s Prozac testing on 6-year-old children found “some patients have been reported to have an increase in suicidal thoughts and/or violent behavior” and/or “wild manic episodes.” This was published in the New York Post.
Weise had been treated for depression in a psychiatric ward. He had attempted suicide at least once and was taking Prozac. There are mounds of evidence that Prozac increases the risk of suicide and/or violent behavior. The psychiatrist who was treating Weise must be questioned for his part in this recent tragedy.
The psychiatrist should be held accountable. His failure was one of grave and irrepairable magnitude, for this psychiatrist not only failed his patient, Weise, but in his failed treatment, he contributed to the deaths of nine people and ensuing grief and fear of a nation.
— Carol Horton, Ventura
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