Effectively Putting an End to Senseless Violence Caused By Mental Health Drugs

Myron May was an attorney and former Prosecutor in New Mexico.  Having trouble concentrating at work, he turned to a psychologist for help. He was prescribed two psychiatric drugs that carry FDA-mandated warnings that the drugs can cause panic attacks. Predictably, he then experienced a panic attack at work.  He returned to the psychologist and got “an adjustment” to the drugs. With his new combination of drugs, he began exhibiting paranoia, hearing voices, experiencing hallucinations. He couldn’t sleep, and began experiencing homicidal ideation.  He checked himself into a psychiatric ward, was given another drug and released, only to continue to have homicidal ideation.  When May’s friends called the mental health practitioner they were told that the doctor “couldn’t do anything”.

This story is a real-life example of what you can find almost every single day of the week, somewhere in the world, with a simple Internet search.

As the clock ticks and as the page of the calendar turn, and as we all continue our daily routine, the likelihood of these types of real-life tragedies only increases.  The likelihood that they will touch each one of our lives increases.

Can we agree that it is time to really be effective in getting our fellow man, woman and child educated on the FDA warnings regarding mental health drugs?

Can we agree to get them educated on the valid alternatives for their troubles, i.e. Lack of focus, anxiety, sleeplessness and more?

If we can agree on those two things, then please contact our office and learn how simple it is to get your community educated.

Probably 10 minutes a day of your time, would change the world and the odds, in your favor. If you spend 10 minutes a day effectively communicating to another person in your community about the basic facts having to do with mental health drugs, it will help add up to all Floridians ware and able to make informed decisions.

A simple education step from our office will get you ready to do so. Please call or email to get started! 800-782-2878 or info@cchrflorida.org

NYC Police Officers’ Killer Had Taken Psychiatric Drugs

Yet one more killer who was taking mental health drugs, at one point, and had been in a psychiatric facility.  Ismaaiyl Brinsley killed two New York City Police Officers in December, 2014.

The New York Times reported, “Mr. Brinsley had also suffered from mental problems. Relatives told the police he had taken medication at one point, and when he was asked during an August 2011 court hearing if he had ever been a patient in a mental institution or under the care of a psychiatrist or psychologist, he said yes. He had also tried to hang himself a year ago, the police said.”

Yet one more tragedy that will never be completely viewed by the public, for what it is.  It is another example of an individual who had been on psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs, who brutally killed the two members of law enforcement.

The FDA could not be more clear in its warnings of homicidal ideation, aggression and violence.

When are we, as citizens, ready to get the facts far and wide, so more tragedies can be prevented?

The sooner, the better!

Facts: In an FDA clinical study of adverse events from drugs, there were “780,169 serious adverse event reports of all kinds. This total included 1,937…cases meeting the violence criteria. The violence cases included 387 reports of homicide, 404 physical assaults, 27 cases indicating physical abuse, 896 homicidal ideation reports, and 223 cases described as violence-related symptoms.

Among 484 evaluable drugs, 31 drugs met the study criteria for a disproportionate association with violence, and accounted for 1527…(79%) of the violence cases… They include varenicline (a smoking cessation aid), 11 antidepressant drugs, 3 drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and 5 hypnotic/sedatives.”

 

The clinical studies involve real-life people and statistics that talk about “1937 cases meeting the violence criteria”, represents 1937 actual acts of violence caused by drugs (most of which are mental health drugs that a great deal of our population is taking).

 

 

FDA clinical study: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0015337

Mental Health Drugs and Violence Go Hand in Hand

It is a fact that the majority of mass shootings over the past fifteen years were carried out by individuals who were on mental health drugs or withdrawing from them.  While the government and other groups are targeting guns as the problem, what about other types of violence like stabbings?  Guns can be banned entirely, but it won’t stop violence from occurring when mental health drugs are a factor.  It doesn’t matter what the method is, because mental health drugs and violence go hand in hand.

Recently, a man named John McFarland apparently stabbed a random man in a Jacksonville Walmart with a hunting knife.  He stated that he was a schizophrenic, put the knife on the shelf and waited for police to arrive.  This is not the first time he has stabbed someone or attempted to do so.  Since 2001, he has been arrested four other times.  Each time he was found mentally insane and never spent any time in jail.

Of course any irrational behavior is insane, but what made him pick up a knife in the first place, walk into a Walmart in the middle of the night and stab someone he didn’t know?  It doesn’t matter what weapon was used, what does matter is the source of the violent behavior which preempted getting that weapon.  The idea to be violent comes from the mental health drugs.  In some people, just one dosage can change the brain chemistry to give the person the unavoidable urge or thought to be violent.

Generally, people with “mental issues” are not violent.  But as just stated, once on the drugs, they can become so.  Mental health drugs do have side effects of mania, aggression, psychosis, violent reactions and homicidal ideation.   There are many documented cases of people becoming violent after taking mental health drugs when they had no prior history of any violence whatsoever.

John McFarland was diagnosed as having schizophrenia, so one can only assume he was prescribed medication.  He said he wasn’t taking medication at the time, but it is more than likely that he did at some point or he could have been withdrawing from it.  In either case, these drugs just don’t wash out of your system overnight and can affect you, your body and your behavior for an undetermined amount of time after the last dosage.

Consequently, it is no surprise that he became violent on multiple occasions.  Why he was declared mentally insane at the time of each incident was pointless, as it was the mental health drugs that were the cause of his behavior.  What is ridiculous but almost comical is the fact that the court released him on the condition that he takes his meds.  Instead of helping the man, the court was basically ordering him to go take some more pills so that he could become violent again.

Just to emphasize this point, a recent study found thirty-one prescription drugs disproportionately linked to violent behavior.  In the top ten, five were antidepressants and two were drugs used to treat ADHD.  What other proof could anyone demand when seven out of the top ten drugs disproportionately linked to violence are mental health drugs?  It’s time people realize that it’s not the weapon and it’s not the “mental illness,” it’s the drugs.  It’s time people consider the fact that drug companies don’t have our best interest in mind, but only profits.

With the above information in mind, it is outrageous that a clinical psychologist thinks people like John McFarland need long-term treatment (which means mental health drugs), but that treatment is unavailable due to lack of funding.  The risk of suicidal or homicidal ideation is clearly stated in the FDA Black Box warnings or at the end of TV ads for mental health drugs, yet these people are still promoting drugs that can cause violence.  Do you want your tax dollars funding violence?

The Jacksonville Community Council (JCCI) says Northeast Florida is one of the most underfunded areas compared to the rest of the country.  They say the lack of services for people like John McFarland is detrimental to the health and well being of all residents.  They say only forty-one percent of those in the area with diagnosable mental illnesses are treated.

This may sound reasonable, but what is behind their story is something else.  The JCCI is promoting a community program based purely on psychiatry.  Psychiatry uses no medical test of any kind to diagnose a “disorder” yet it is legal for them to prescribe mind-altering drugs with severe adverse side effects to manage a condition based only on their opinion.  That means that the JCCI wants a few hundred thousand residents of northeast Florida to be on mental health drugs without any regard to potential risk of violent side effects.

If you read their booklet, Unlocking the Pieces: Community Mental Health in Northeast Florida, you will find a solid backing of psychiatry and their unfounded practices.  For someone like John McFarland, diagnosed with schizophrenia, the treatment listed is ECT, electroconvulsive therapy.  This is one of the most barbaric treatments that still exists in modern society today.

Therefore it is a good thing that Northeast Florida is “underfunded” and doesn’t have the services to treat people like John McFarland.  John McFarland needs real help, not mental health drugs.  What is needed is that people realize that it is the mental health drugs that do cause violence.  The health and well being of all residents anywhere depends on realizing this fact.

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/news/local/suspect-walmart-stabbing-claims-have-schizophrenia/nh63S/

 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/02/top-ten-legal-drugs-linked-to-violence.aspx

 

http://issuu.com/jcci/docs/mhi_report_executive_summary_/1?e=3421855/9720899

 

http://www.corbettreport.com/medicated-to-death-ssris-and-mass-killings/

 

17 Involuntary commitments, mental health drugs and murder!

News from Florida Times Union

 

“A frequently institutionalized Jacksonville man repeatedly deemed mentally ill by authorities and feared by his mother for a decade of abuse is now charged with suffocating her in her Regency-area apartment Wednesday.”

 

This man had been involuntarily committed, placed on mental health drugs, and yet, none of that prevented him from committing this heinous crime. Mental health drugs carry homicidal ideation warnings.  Involuntary commitment, typically, leads to the prescribing of more mental health drugs.

These are the facts and one additional fact is that every person has the right to know the risks of the proposed treatment and the alternatives to that treatment, prior to ever agreeing to take any drug.

 

Full story: http://members.jacksonville.com/news/crime/2014-10-30/story/jacksonville-womans-fears-her-violent-mentally-ill-son-end-her-slaying

CCHR News Update: Psychiatric drugs and homicide once again!

 

 

Suspect in School Attack Once Turned to Victim for Help, Friends Say

Chris Plakson, 16, is accused of fatally stabbing classmate Maren Sanchez in the hallway of a Connecticut school.

 

“Those who were closer to him suspected he was still struggling with mental illness, said Tyler Curtin, 16, who counted Mr. Plaskon among his best friends early on in high school. They knew he took medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and he told a friend last year that he once had been about to kill himself. He continued to come to class with cuts, friends said.”

Former Military Mom–Mental Health Meds–On Trial for Double Murder!

Psychiatric drugs carry FDA warnings of homicidal ideation!
Time to get people educated about their rights to alternatives.

 

Tampa Bay Times Listen: Julie Schenecker offered rambling statement to police “In the hours after she was taken into custody on suspicion she had murdered her two children, Julie Schenecker let two Tampa police detectives interview her. … She was taking lithium and as many as 10 other medications, the names of which she struggled to pronounce. She was bipolar, she said. …

 

 

 

The recordings contain more than 30 minutes of her conversation with the detectives, an interview that ranged from questions about whether she was taking her medications to inquiries about her decade-long military career as a Russian linguist and interrogator.”   Full Article: http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/after-her-kids-deaths-julie-schenecker-offered-rambling-confusing/2174092

 

 

 

 

School Attack Linked to ADHD Meds

In the year 2000 a Bill was introduced in New York that read as follows ”

There is a large body of scientific research establishing a connection between violence and suicide and the use of psychotropic drugs in some cases. This research, which has been published in peer reviewed publications such as the American Journal of Psychiatry, The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and The Journal of Forensic Science, has shown, among other things, that: certain drugs can induce mania (a psychosis which can produce bizarre, grandiose and highly elaborated destructive plans, including mass murder);. . .and certain drugs can produce an acute psychotic reaction in an individual not previously psychotic.”

 

It is not new news!  In 2014 the loss, the horror and deaths that have occurred at the hands of those who were on psychiatric drugs, is unspeakable.

Suspect in School Attack Once Turned to Victim for Help, Friends Say

Chris Plakson, 16, is accused of fatally stabbing classmate Maren Sanchez in the hallway of a Connecticut school.

 

“Those who were closer to him suspected he was still struggling with mental illness, said Tyler Curtin, 16, who counted Mr. Plaskon among his best friends early on in high school. They knew he took medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and he told a friend last year that he once had been about to kill himself. He continued to come to class with cuts, friends said.”

 

 

Psychiatric Drugs carry FDA warnings of homicidal ideation and the majority of mass-killings were done by individuals who had taken these drugs.

Too Much Mental Health vs. “Not Enough”- The life of a murderer

Paul Merhige entered the mental health system in his early 20s, due to difficulties he was having with depression and obsessive behaviors. The mental health community would have and probably did, applaud his parents for introducing him to the range of “services” mental health has to offer.  Psychotropic drugs, involuntary commitment and the circular route of more drugs and more confinement. When all this was not “working”, Paul tried to kill himself with a gunshot to the chest that lacerated one of his lungs.

According to the Palm Beach Post “That attempt came after the first of two times his family had him involuntarily confined under the state’s Baker Act. Afterward, Michael Merhige visited local gun shops and begged them not to sell a gun to his son.

“Merhige tried suicide again in 2005, swallowing all the pills left in his extensive cache of psychotropic medicines.”

With the horrendous mass shootings our nation has experienced, there is much legislative and political talk of “not enough” mental health for those who committed the mass-murders/suicide. Yet, what each of us may benefit from doing, is to question that idea, immediately.  Paul Merhige was thickly embedded in the mental health system, on psychotropic drugs with side effects such as, hallucinations, delusions, psychosis, mania, suicidal and homicidal thoughts. He was involuntarily committed multiple times and yet, was this seemingly helping him or was it perpetuating his already out-of-control symptoms.

According to the Sun Sentinel, “ Merhige had previously been involuntarily committed three times under the Florida Mental Health Act, commonly known as the Baker Act. He had also shown violent tendencies throughout his life”, when he was invited to Thanksgiving dinner “during which he shot dead four relatives including a 6-year-old girl.”

Paul Merhige is now in prison serving multiple life sentences.  He does not stand alone in the long list of those who all share two things, use of psychotropic drugs and murder.

Psychotropic drugs are mind-altering and the Food and Drug Administration places the warnings clearly on the package insert for each of the drugs.  Involuntary Commitment has not once evidenced a cure or a betterment of condition for an individual.  In Paul’s case this is all clearly illustrated.  Lives were ended by his actions and yet our nation continues to feed the large mental health/pharmaceutical industry and cry for more funding.

In one county alone, in Florida, there has been a grant given of $1.2-million to supposedly alleviate some of the burden, this one county experiences in all the work it takes to involuntarily commit people.  What a business, money, drugs and no evidence of curing or alleviating the problem.  During one 30-day span late last year, this one county’s Sheriff’s office handled 46 involuntary commitments.

The time to be knowledgeable on this subject is now.  Each of us can simply look at the facts and by doing so, we can learn that we all have the right to alternative, non-psychiatric treatment.  For people like Paul Merhige, if that right had been exercised long ago, we may have a very different real-life story to share with you.

The New York Times has reported on the thyroid as being one of the physical causes of depression. Many medical researchers and professionals have a wealth of information on the physical ailments that can be evidenced with medical science, that lead up to mental health symptoms and when tested for, treated and cured, result in the elimination of all mental health symptoms.

Let’s not fill our jails, our hospitals, our cemeteries with the ill-gotten results of the mental health communities’ failure to do what they so largely promote they can do, all the while earning billions of dollars.

A Clinical Look At Senseless Violence

A recent Gallup poll found that 80 percent of Americans blame the mental health system for mass shootings. Additionally, Drug use remains the third-highest-ranking factor in gun violence.
Until a decade or more ago, the subject of abuse in the field of mental health would only be relevant to those individuals and families who have had or do have the potential for mental health situations to arise.

Yet today, the subject of abuse in the field of mental health has everything to do with EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US, NO MATTER HOW WELL WE ARE ORCHESTRATING OUR LIVES!

Why, you may ask, is this the case?

One answer – violence, aggression and homicidal ideation, which are drug side effects listed on the package insert of many psychiatric drugs.

The majority of mass-shooters were on the drugs at one point. A mass-shooting is a variable that is even less controllable then a family situation of a relative who is experiencing mental health symptoms.

We are now, all of us, open to the risk of the violence from someone who is or has been on the psychiatric drugs. This issue belongs to all of us!

In an article, titled “Suicidality, violence and mania caused by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs): A review and analysis”, Dr. Peter Breggin talks about the violent effects of psychiatric drugs and several studies that evidenced this.

(Note: Fluoxetine is Prozac)

“The report provided a clinical window into the development of obsessive violence and a school shooter mentality.  A twelve-year-old boy on fluoxetine developed nightmares about becoming a school shooter and then began to lose track of reality concerning these events. This case occurred in a controlled-clinical trial and the investigators did not know that the child was getting fluoxetine until they broke the double-blind code. The child’s reaction occurred long before any of the well-known school shootings had taken place. Therefore, his reaction was not inspired by the school shootings; it was not a ‘copycat’:

Thirty-eight days after beginning the protocol, F. experienced a violent nightmare about killing his classmates until he himself was shot. He awakened from it only with difficulty, and the dream continued to feel ‘very real.’ He reported having had several days of increasingly vivid ‘bad dreams’ before this episode; these included images of killing himself and his parents dying.  When he was seen later that day he was agitated and anxious, refused to go to school and reported marked suicidal ideation that made him feel unsafe at home as well. ”

It’s time to get every-single person informed on the FDA warnings on psychiatric drugs and it’s time to inform the public about their right to alternative treatment.

Naval shooter on antidepressant–known homicidal side effects

FACT:  “Evidence from many sources confirms that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) commonly cause or exacerbate a wide range of abnormal mental and behavioral conditions. These adverse drug reactions include the following overlapping clinical phenomena: a stimulant profile that ranges from mild agitation to manic psychoses, agitated depression, obsessive preoccupations that are alien or uncharacteristic of the individual, and akathisia. Each of these reactions can worsen the individual’s mental condition and can result in suicidality, violence, and other forms of extreme abnormal behavior.”

(Dr. Peter Breggin, author of “Suicidality, violence and mania caused by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs): A review and analysis.)

New York Times Report, 17 Sept. 2013: “Mr. Alexis said he could not sleep for more than a few hours. Doctors there prescribed him an antidepressant pill commonly prescribed for insomnia, Trazodone, the official said.

Five days later, Mr. Alexis went to a Veterans Affairs hospital in Washington, where he had traveled to work on a job at the navy yard. Mr. Alexis, who had not been given many Trazodone pills in Providence, said to the medical personnel in Washington that he was still having trouble sleeping and the doctors prescribed him more Trazodone, said the official.”

Associated Press Report 17 Sept. 2013: “The former Navy reservist who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard had been hearing voices and was undergoing treatment in the weeks before the shooting rampage, but was not stripped of his security clearance, officials said Tuesday.”

 

FACT: The majority of all mass-shooters were or had been on psychiatric drugs.

FACT: Some psychiatric drugs carry FDA warnings of homicidal ideation.

OUR RIGHTS: To get this information to every single person we know.  Along with the facts regarding the individual’s right to alternative treatment