Prescription drugs are connected to school shootings and other violence

[Guest guest]

And yet it continues. The prescription drugs and songs

in their praise continue as before. Recently a book

review appeared on www.about.com/ The book is a new

one on childhood bipolar disorder. I read the review

with the intention to buy it provided it contained new

info on nutrition or allergies leading to bipolar. But

I was disappointed to read about new drugs. The drug

companies will not stop just as the gun-runners don't.

Ratan.

 

--- califpacific <califpacific wrote:

 

> http://www.newstarget.com/020394.html

>

> September 11 2006

>

> Prescription drugs are connected to school shootings

> and other

> violence, yet more drugs are touted as the solution

>

> The United States is gaining a reputation around the

> world for

> raising children who go on school shooting rampages.

> Earlier this

> year, we had another one with 16-year-old Jeff

> Weiss, who went into

> his school on an Indian reservation and blew away 10

> friends. And

> guess what? He was taking the antidepressant Prozac.

>

> Once again we see the link between antidepressants

> and violent

> behavior. I was raising the alarm about this in 1999

> following the

> Columbine schools shootings. At that time we knew

> that those

> students were on antidepressant drugs, but the rest

> of the world

> didn't take any notice of it. The rest of the world

> said, " These

> drugs are completely safe. They keep these kids

> happy and in a

> normal state so they don't feel depressed. " What

> they actually do,

> though, is detach these kids from reality to the

> point they can go

> on shooting rampages and not even have a clue that

> they're affecting

> the lives of real people. It basically transforms

> the world into a

> video game that these kids play out.

>

> It makes it very easy for them to cross that

> threshold and begin to

> display violent behavior. We've seen this in the

> studies and

> finally, after years and years of pounding this

> issue, some of it

> has started to come out in the popular press. We're

> seeing a lot of

> warnings now about antidepressant drugs and their

> ability to cause

> violent behavior. We're seeing some of these drugs

> pulled off the

> market. And slowly we're beginning to see the

> general public

> recognizing the link between antidepressant drugs in

> our youth and

> violent behavior, including school shootings.

>

> Back in 1999, they blamed guns. So if the students

> had picked up

> knives and stabbed people to death, it would have

> been a knife

> problem? Give me a break; it's not a knife problem,

> or a gun

> problem… it's a medication problem. These schools

> are supposed to be

> drug-free zones, and yet half the kids are doped up

> on

> antidepressants and Ritalin. How is that drug-free?

>

> If you're going to alter the brain chemistry of

> these children, you

> had better be prepared for the results. The result

> we're seeing now

> is mass killings. Elsewhere around the world, where

> children aren't

> doped up on all these drugs, we don't see this kind

> of behavior.

> This is what happens when you change children's

> brain chemistry; you

> get these results.

>

> Now, you can talk about other factors that may be

> involved. We can

> talk about violent video games, for example, and how

> some of these

> first-person shooter games are potentially training

> simulators for

> violent and aggressive behavior. However, I think

> you can only push

> that argument so far. If a child can distinguish

> between a video

> game and reality, then he's not going to be running

> around shooting

> people in the real world just because he played a

> video game.

>

> That doesn't mean these video games are healthy. I

> would certainly

> prefer that children played something a little less

> violent, but I

> don't think you can blame the video games for this

> behavior. You've

> got to go to the brain chemistry. It's when you

> alter the brain

> chemistry that bad things start to happen.

>

>

> Boosting brain health with nutrition

> Now, are there healthy ways to alter brain

> chemistry? Of course

> there are. Fundamentally, this is actually a

> nutritional problem. If

> a child is depressed, or if he or she is suffering

> from so-called

> ADHD -- which is a completely fictional disease, by

> the way -- you

> can resolve the vast majority of these issues by

> making changes in

> their diet.

> As much as 80 percent of children diagnosed with

> ADHD can be

> completely free of the " disease " in a matter of

> weeks just by taking

> certain metabolic disrupters out of their diet --

> most notably,

> refined sugars and refined grains, such as white

> flour and

> artificial food colors. Imagine how healthy

> children's nervous

> systems could be if we fed them good nutrition. What

> if they had

> some supergreens or just some basic vitamins,

> minerals and whole

> food concentrates? What could we do for the health

> of their brains?

>

> They would have stable moods, they would have

> non-aggressive

> behavior, and they would be more creative and more

> willing to learn.

> We could raise a whole generation of healthy,

> intelligent children

> if we started with nutrition, because the brain and

> nervous system

> are physical organs. People forget that. The brain

> is a physical

> organ, and just like any physical organ in your

> body, if you don't

> give it the right nutrients, then it won't function

> properly.

>

>

> Trying to raise a normal child without nutrition is

> akin to running

> a car without oil

> It's sort of like trying to run your car without any

> oil in it. I

> know that's a crude metaphor, but some people get

> the point that

> way. You have to have good nutrition for the brain;

> that means B

> vitamins and lots of minerals -- magnesium, zinc,

> calcium and the

> trace minerals as well. You have to have the

> phytonutrients, the

> pigmentation in these foods -- the blues in the

> berries and the reds

> in the tomatoes and peppers, the orange in carrots

> and so on.

> The colors of foods are actually potent

> phytochemicals, and these

> colors have highly protective effects on the nervous

> system. They

> also boost immune system function in the body and

> can help reduce

> arthritis and inflammation. They have a lot of

> beneficial effects in

> the body, yet children today are growing up on

> mostly processed

> foods and junk foods.

>

> You probably remember what you ate as a teenager.

> It's an atrocious

> diet. I know mine was a terrible diet. I can't

> believe I made it to

> the age of 25 based on what I was eating then. But

> some kids aren't

> making it, and they're not making it because they

> lack the basic

> nutrition they need to have healthy functioning

> nervous systems.

>

> So what does this organized medicine and psychiatry

> do to combat

> this problem? It doses teenagers up on prescription

> drugs as if

> drugs are the answer to every problem. Then they

> have another answer

> when these kids go out and shoot each other. The

> answer, then, is

>

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Ratan Singh

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Address: 7- NA- 16

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