Mainstream press such as the LA Times<\/span><\/a><\/em> and Reuters<\/span><\/a><\/em> are now reporting that antidepressant drugs can cause violent behavior, based on a new study published in a respected medical journal, PLOS Medicine<\/span><\/a>, which found that young adults between the ages of 15-24 were 43 percent more likely to be convicted of a homicide, assault, robbery, arson, kidnapping, sexual offense or other violent crime when taking\u00a0an SSRI antidepressant than when they weren’t taking the psychiatric drug.<\/p>\n This latest study, linking violence and antidepressants, only serves to support decades of CCHR’s research and efforts to elicit action by those in a position to make a difference. To date, 35 school shootings and\/or school-related acts of violence have been committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs and, between 2004 and 2012, there have been nearly 15,000 reports to the FDA’s MedWatch system on psychiatric drugs causing violent side effects.<\/p>\n Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Study Confirms Antidepressants Cause Violence Mainstream press such as the LA Times and Reuters are now reporting that antidepressant drugs can cause violent behavior, based on a new study published in a respected medical journal, PLOS Medicine, which found … Continue reading