Anti-Depressants

Commenter Paul sent me a link to this article that speculates about the drug use of the Amish School killer.

There were MANY clues in this case! This is the list I sent to the reporters covering this case:

You have a normal, average guy who is even a good husband and father, who, out of the blue, goes on a shooting rampage.

You have the horrifying and vivid nightmares that become so real that you cannot tell the difference between them and reality.

You have a fellow who clearly began acting out the nightmares he was having - technically known as a REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD). We now know that 86% of RBD is antidepressant-induced or perhaps more politically correct would be to say that we know that 86% of those being diagnosed with this are on antidepressants.

You have the reason for most docs to give one of the drugs due to the way Charles Roberts felt about losing his baby daughter.

The article goes on to look at a few other interesting connections between ant-depressant use, loss of contact with reality and crime.

You have the claims of molesting people who are completely unaware that it ever happened and have now denied it ever happened - signs of hallucinating, which higher levels of serotonin produce.

You also have another sign of high serotonin - the thoughts of pedophilia - yes that is scientifically documented. Why do you think we have so much pedophilia now to insure Bill O'Reilly's job of chasing sex abusers on Fox News? Oh my, what would Bill do without these drugs?

You also have reports coming from Sarah Glick, the little old Amish woman who runs Glick's Heath Store, that he was preparing to visit one of her daughters, who are natural practitioners (both lost family members in this tragedy) because he was sick of how he was feeling and wanted to try the natural way. Doesn't that indicate to you he had tried the medical way and it was not working?

Now pot is an anti-depressant. The worst thing pot smokers do on the drug is go to sleep. If pot induced rampages were common the DEA would be running TV commercials on the subject.

So why aren't we looking into substituting a safer drug for a more dangerous one? Well it would interfere with big pharma profits. Which might explain all the drug companies who back the "Drug Free America Campaign".

A well known secret discusses a doctor who tries to treat an "addicted" patient.

Addiction or Self Medication? discusses the self medication aspects of illegal drug use and the drug companies involvement in the "Drug Free America Campaign."