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ADHD drugs... on HOMICIDES and SUICIDES

March 18 2005 at 2:46 PM
 


Response to MARCH 2005 UK NEWS: THE ADHD and RITALIN THREAD.

ON SUICIDES:

US site..

http://www.nfgcc.org/banritalin.htm

"...Ritalin is highly sought after by the drug-abusing population. According to Drug Abuse Warn Net (DAWN) it represents the greatest increase in drugs associated with abuse, and the highest number of suicides and emergency room admissions."

 

 

ON HOMICIDES:

A few of the homicides linked to ADHD drugs from a short search ("psychotic episodes" being a feature of ADHD drugs)...

Michael Carneal (Ritalin) a 14-year-old opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded, one of whom was paralyzed.

Young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic, chopping up his parents with an axe and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.

Andrew Golden, aged 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin)  shot 15 people killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.

Kip Kinkel, aged 15, (Ritalin and Prozac) of Springfield, Oregon murdered his parents and proceeded to his high school where he went on a rampage killing two students and wounding 22 others.

Shawn Cooper of Notus, aged 15, (Ritalin) of Idaho took a 12-guage shot gun to school and started firing, injuring one student and holding the school hostage for about 20 minutes.

TJ Solomon, aged 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia  opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.

Rod Mathews, aged 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.

James Wilson, aged 19, (Psychiatric Drugs - various) Breenwood, South Carolina, took  a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school  killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.

Young man in Amarillo, TX (Ritalin, Prozac and another antidepressant) burned down a church and pastor’s home.

Jeremy Strohmeyer, aged 18, (Dexedrine) raped and murdered a 7-year-old African American girl in Las Vegas, Nevada shortly after commencing dexedrine 'treatment'.

Ryan Ehlis, college student, (Adderall)
in North Dakota,  killed his infant daughter in a psychotic episode shortly after commencing adderall 'treatment'. 

 

And so on.  A SHORT search showed those up, not an extensive one.

Edit: the above are now incorporated into a growing list of homicides/homicides-suicide list (originally on SSRIs only) which can be downloaded here:

homicidesSSRISandADHDmedications.pdf



    
This message has been edited by peagee on Mar 24, 2005 3:31 PM


 
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