WHAT'S THE ROLE OF DRUGS IN THE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS?

Guns have always been a part or this country from our frontier days to
present time. What has changed is the prevalence of drugs since the 1960s,
brought on by the wholesale introduction and acceptance of mind-altering
prescription drugs by psychiatrists. Today's street drugs that we are
spending millions and millions of dollars to eradicate were originally
hailed by the psychiatrists as society's cure-alls.

The common thread of virtually all of these school-yard shootings is that
the student killers were on drugs prescribed be psychiatrists. The latest
killer, Kipland Kinkel, was on Prozac. I recall the violent acts that were
associated with Prozac when it originally came out years ago. A vigorous ad
campaign successfully distracted our attention from that and led to a boom
in the use of Prozac and its newer relatives. The other student killers
were on various anti-depressants or ADD drugs, such as Ritalin, which is
similar to methamphetamine and cocaine.

It doesn't make sense to me that we make such an effort to get our children
off street drugs and then at the drop of a hat allow psychiatrists to put
them right back on prescription drugs that are probable even more dangerous.

Daniel R. Shapiro-Irvine

Checked-by: Mike Gogulski