A spring morning at Columbine High School, Colorado, 1999. By the afternoon, 12 of its schoolchildren and one teacher lay dead, gunned down by two of it's pupils. Cases such as Columbine are occurring with increasing regularity and guns are not always involved. In Japan in 1998, a 13-year old schoolboy murdered his teacher in a frenzied knife attack - one of many similar crimes that has shocked that country. In Britain street crime has escalated beyond our worst fears, and teenagers account for a large proportion of violent robberies in their desperation to steal must-have items like mobile phones and sports clothes. What is happening in society that young people are running amok, fuelled by hatred and nihilism? Crime expert Antonio Mendoza investigates this worldwide problem and comes up with some shocking findings.
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Antonio Mendoza is a respected authority on true crime and runs a popular website www.mayhem.net which gets 20,000 hits per day. He has written for the LA Times among other newspapers and magazines.
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Totally missing the point.,
This review is from: Teenage Rampage: The Worldwide Youth Crime Phenomenon (True Crime Series) (Mass Market Paperback)
If the author had researched in the right places he may have decided the book would be more realistically called
"Teenage Rampage: The Worldwide Psychotropic Prescription Phenomenon." As for "Intermittent Explosive Disorder" - it would be far nearer the truth to introduce the term "Iaotrogenic Homicidality Disorder". These are the reasons why, to name but a few: Kip Kinkel (Prozac and RITALIN) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment. Luke Woodham aged 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others. Boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 who in seizure activity from Zoloft had a stand off at the school. Michael Carneal (Ritalin) a 14-year-old opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded, one of whom was paralyzed. Young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another. Andrew Golden, aged 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others. TJ Solomon, aged 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates. Rod Mathews, aged 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat. James Wilson, aged 19, (Psychiatric Drugs - various) Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers. Elizabeth Bush aged 13 (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) - school shooting in El Cajon, California Another boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) had a stand off at the school. Jarred Viktor aged 15 (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times. Chris Shanahan aged 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman. Eric Harris aged 17 (Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 in Colombine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado, killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and injured 23 others, before killing themselves. Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic's file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister Neal Furrow, (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications. Cory Baadesgaard (Paxil then 300 mgs Effexor) in Matawa, WA school shooting. This was not long after being taken off Paxil cold turkey and changed over to Effexor. Shawn Cooper of Notus, aged 15 (SSRI and Ritalin) took a 12 guage shot gun to school and started firing, injuring one student and holding the school hostage for about 20 mins. There have been further similar cases of children and teenagers involved in homicides while on prescription psychtropic drugs, though the book was already published by that time: Jeff Weise, 16, (PROZAC) Minnesota School Shootings March 2005, killed his Grandfather and Grandmother, then went on a rampage at the school killing a teacher, a security officer, 5 students (and wounding 7 others, 2 critically), before exchanging gunfire with police and then shooting himself. Christopher Pittman, aged 12, (Paxil then Zoloft). Known amongst family as 'pop-pops shadow', he had always been very close to his grandfather. Shortly after being prescribed Zoloft he shot both his grandparents dead and burned the house down. What relationship does homicidality have with prescription mind altering drugs? Could it be drug companies behaving like the three below? http://www.socialaudit.org.uk/58096-DH%20to%20WARK.htm Extract of correspondence from Professor David Healy to the UK drug regulatory body, the MHRA. "...Reports on these [clinical] trials list patients who have committed suicide, and list those patients as being of a certain age and as having committed suicide at a certain point during the trial, when the patient in question has a very different age and the event in question happened at a completely different point during the trial". "Miscoding of suicidal act as emotional lability." " Lilly have resorted to treatment non-response and a range of other headings to code what happened." [re coding/mislabelling suicidal acts happening on clinical trials] "...records on Prozac, Seroxat/Paxil and Lustral/Zoloft, you will find cases of homicidality coded as nausea for instance." "Discontinuation of patients from studies for primary adverse effects such as nausea when in fact there has been a suicidal act;" "But it is also worth adding specifically that this has been a feature of all trials of Zoloft/Lustral, Seroxat/Paxil and Prozac throughout, as far as I can make out... "
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