Prescription drugs are connected to school shootings and other violence

[Guest guest]

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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

prison time. " We'll lock these kids away because they're dangerous

to society. "

 

Instead of spending a few dollars on nutrition to raise a healthy,

balanced human being with a functioning nervous system, we spend

hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of dollars, over

the life of this person to keep them incarcerated. We build more

prisons. We put them on more drugs, and we do nothing to create a

productive member of society.

 

It only takes a few dollars worth of nutrition each month to support

a healthy child. Of course, there's more to it than just nutrition;

there are things like good parenting, a great living environment, a

challenging learning environment and so on. But in terms of the

nutritional aspect, it only takes a few dollars. Nutrition doesn't

have to be expensive.

 

 

Investing in the health of our children is a bargain

To cover the nutrition basics only costs a few dollars a month, and

that investment would pay off so much in our society. It would be

returned many times over very quickly because every kid that we can

save from the prison system and give a new opportunity, in terms of

being able to learn and take on a skill and have real job

opportunities out there, produces a windfall of returns for society.

That child is going to grow up and be a productive member of

society. He or she is going to pay taxes, possible raise a family

and be part of a community. Instead, we put them in prison, dose

them up on drugs and blame them for their actions when I believe

they've actually been instigated by the prescription drugs and toxic

chemicals in their foods.

The don't need to be punished as mush as they simply need to be

nourished. I know this stands at odds with the current " incarcerate

everybody " mentality that dominates the culture here in the United

States, the land of prisons -- but it's the truth. Why are we the

country with the greatest prison population in the world? It might

be the same reason we are the nation with the worst health problems

in the world. They are connected, you know. People who are unhealthy

are unhappy, moody and can display aggressive, violent behavior.

Change their diets and you can turn many criminals into normal

people. Not all of them, of course, but a large number.

 

 

Modern society is addicted to drugs

Someday historians will look back on this era and wonder with great

bewilderment how we could poison our children with such toxic

chemicals, how we could poison an entire generation with

prescription drugs and how we could keep all our senior citizens in

a zombie state, dosed up on mind-altering drugs. They will

wonder, " How could we do this as a society? Were we insane? Were we

completely out of our minds? What was wrong with this society? "

At that time, society will have moved way beyond chemical-based

medicine. We will be focused on disease prevention, and we'll have

electro-medicine. We'll be using non-local medicine, for example, to

help people stay healthy. We'll have outstanding nutrition available

at a very reasonable cost in formats people can enjoy taking.

Someday, nutrition will be recognized as the number one way to

prevent disease and keep people healthy.

 

 

Belief in chemicals as a cure-all is just one more sign that we are

living in the dark ages of medicine

Today, however, we're living in the Dark Ages of medicine. We're

still living in the chemical-based medical society where everybody

says that chemicals are the solutions to health problems.

" Does your head hurt? You need a chemical. Blood pressure too high?

We have a chemical for that, too. Do you feel nervous speaking in

front of groups? We have a chemical for that one. Having trouble

with your relationships? Chemical. Got a little bit of joint pain?

Yup, there's a chemical for that. " Then they'll tell you, just in

case, " We have chemicals for stuff that you haven't even experienced

yet. We have chemicals that you can take to make sure that you never

have pain or heart disease. You should take all these chemicals

right now, just in case, and keep taking them for as long as you

live. "

 

How's that for a con? The con of pharmaceutical-based medicine is

the biggest con ever perpetrated on the American people. That con

has effects in our schools, and unfortunately, some of those side

effects are fatal.

 

 

The silent holocaust of pharmaceutical deaths

Let's look at this in perspective: We're talking about 10 children

being killed in this particular incident, and there are a lot of

headlines about these 10 children being killed. Certainly, it is a

tragedy. None of those children deserved to die, and it didn't have

to happen if only we were able to actually take care of our children

and feed them right in the first place. But let's compare those 10

deaths to how many Americans have been killed by prescription drugs

this year alone. Even the Journal of the American Medical

Association says in a peer-reviewed study that prescription drugs

cause 100,000 deaths a year in this country.

Ten children die in this school shooting, and it gets a lot of

attention. Why? It's violent; people pay attention to violence.

Meanwhile, we have 100,000 Americans (and that's a conservative

number) dying every year just from prescription drugs side effects,

and it gets no attention. Why? It's not violent. These 100,000

people die separately, and they die quietly. They die in homes or in

hospitals. There's no fiery crash, there's no late-night footage for

the news, there's no big explosion and there's nothing to report to

the tabloid papers. It's just 100,000 people dying silently.

 

Also, more than 16,500 deaths a year are caused by over-the-counter

pain medications. Non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)

kill more than 16,500 people a year by gastrointestinal bleeding.

Then the COX-2 inhibitors, which were supposed to be safer than the

NSAIDs, came along, and according to studies by chief drug

researcher Dr. David Graham at the FDA, they've caused more than

144,000 heart attacks, more than 40 percent of which have been

fatal.

 

So what are we talking about here? We're talking about drugs killing

more Americans than the entire Vietnam War. We're talking about it

happening every year -- twice a year, in fact. You want to talk

about a war; this is war on the people, and it's being waged by the

pharmaceutical industry. They're willing to trade your life for

their profits, in my view. They can get away with it because, again,

there's no big event. People are dying separately and quietly, and

many of the people who are dying were in their old age anyway,

right? They figure no one will blame the drug.

 

We have a disturbingly drug-addicted society here, folks. We've got

to get back to health and basic nutrition by raising children with

healthy, functioning nervous systems. If we don't do that, no amount

of chemistry is going to save us. In fact, these chemicals are

already responsible for untold pain, suffering and death in our

society.

 

The solution is not more chemicals. The solution is to change the

paradigm and get back to nutrition, healthy foods and disease

prevention while getting the poisonous ingredients out of our food

supply. If we don't do that, we're going to continue to be a society

of violent criminals and degenerates -- a society of people who

don't have good cognitive function and who are chemically dependant

on a system of medicine that is actually killing them at a rate that

makes the Vietnam War look like a Boy Scout skirmish in the woods.

 

That's the truth about modern medicine today. It's a crime against

our own children, and if we are to have any real hope of surviving

as a nation for another generation, this practice must be stopped.

 

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