SAINT LOUIS: 19-year-old Robert Hawkins, who killed eight people and wounded five before committing suicide in an Omaha, Nebraska mall, appears to be the latest kid killer under the influence of psychiatric drugs (click here<\/font><\/a><\/span> for CNN video) documented to cause violence, mania, psychosis, suicide and \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201chomicidal ideation.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n With ten recent school shooters under the influence of psychiatric drugs, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) a mental health watchdog, says the government can no longer ignore the violence inducing effects of these drugs and must launch a federal investigation. With 39 dead and 84 wounded from these ten recent drug-induced shootings alone, CCHR produced a series of three startling new Public Service Announcements, called \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cGet the Facts – Fight Back\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d, depicting the consequences of prescribing violence and suicide inducing psychiatric drugs to children and teens (click here<\/font><\/a> to watch PSAs).<\/span> Despite the deadly side effects, antidepressants are commonly prescribed to children and teens, raking in $20.6 billion in profits worldwide in 2006. In the meantime, the senseless drug-induced violence continues, taking a heavy toll on our nation\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s children and teens.<\/span> CCHR has also published a report Psychiatric Drugs and Anger Management Curricula\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dA Perspective on School Violence<\/em>, which can be found by clicking <\/span>here<\/font><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Watchdog Says Omaha Mall Shootings Reflect Why They Launched Startling PSAs SAINT LOUIS: 19-year-old Robert Hawkins, who killed eight people and wounded five before committing suicide in an Omaha, Nebraska mall, appears to be the latest kid killer under the … Continue reading
\nThe group says the evidence of drugs causing violence, murder and homicide is overwhelming \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 yet ignored due to billions in drug company\/psychiatric profits. In September 2006, Dr. David Healy, director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, and colleagues published the findings of their study of the antidepressant, Paxil, in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine<\/em> stating: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cWe’ve got good evidence that the drugs can make people violent and you’d have to reason from that that there may be more episodes of violence.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d (link<\/font><\/a>)<\/span>
\nFox National News reporter Douglas Kennedy exposed the link between school shooters and antidepressant\/psychiatric drug use in his ground breaking expose \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cDeadly Drugs\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d as far back as 2002. (link<\/font><\/a>)\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0
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\nCCHR launched the PSAs to help galvanize the public to demand a federal investigation of the violence inducing effects of psychiatric drugs before more children and innocent bystanders are murdered.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The group fought for more than a decade against vested psychiatric and pharmaceutical interests to have black box suicide warnings added to antidepressants, and was the first to expose the suicidal effects of the drugs in 1991 \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 13 years before the government took action and finally issued the black box suicide warnings on all antidepressant drugs in 2004. Click here<\/font><\/a> to watch a video of the 1991 FDA hearing on antidepressants and violence\/suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n