Cruz was reportedly taking antidepressants.
Some of the side effects of antidepressants include aggression, agitation, changes in behavior, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts — and homicidal ideation.
Something I wrote in 2004.
It turns out that anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem in the United States. They are worth $46 billion a year to the pharmaceutical industry. You don’t suppose this fact has any thing to do with the pharmaceutical industries being in the forefront of the Drug Free America campaign do you? Of course not. They are just trying to keep you from being addicted to natural products at the cost of 1/10th of a cent per dose when they are more than willing to sell you an FDA and doctor approved, pharmacy sold product that will do the job for a dollar a dose. They have only your best interests at heart. Just ask their accountants.
It seems like we may need to be talking to their lawyers as well.
So was it the drugs? We don’t know for sure. But we have indications.
Update: 19 February 2018 0424z
Lew Rockwell has a list of mass shootings and the drugs involved.
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9 responses to “It Was The Drugs That Did it”
I was put on anti depressants. I went off them once I realized I’d become a maniac. They put me on a different one. I went off them again, same reason.
No, I am not on anti-depressants now, and no, I don’t want to kill anyone – unless they aim a weapon at me first…
That said – if it was the drugs, he could have done what I did.
Oh, and just FYI, I’m adopted too.
Blaming drugs has the same logical flaw as blaming guns. Both are inanimate objects which can do nothing without human agency.
After looking at the latest postings at Talk Polywell I got to thinking “I wonder how my old friend Simon is doing?” So I popped in here to see.
Imagine my shock to see the first post is about drugs!
🙂
I’m not in favor of doping up kids, except in the rare cases where it really helps. But, for every whack job like this one there are thousands of kids who aren’t going on shooting sprees. What made this one different? The kid was an obvious fuck up, there was plenty of warning. I don’t know what the correct approach should be to these violent whackos, but blaming drugs isn’t the answer. Drugs don’t kill people same as guns don’t kill people. Deranged whackjobs on shooting sprees kill people.
MMM,
Maybe if a person on these drugs is considering suicide or homicide it may be a good idea to look into the situation.
Known side effects:
“Some of the side effects of antidepressants include aggression, agitation, changes in behavior, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts — and homicidal ideation.”
Known side effects:
“Some of the side effects of antidepressants include aggression, agitation, changes in behavior, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts — and homicidal ideation.”
What they did to me is that they stopped me from dreaming (sleep dreaming). I became psychotic – but, I NOTICED that and refused to take them anymore.I’m not excusing him – I didn’t become totally insane – I knew there was something wrong and I stopped.
He didn’t. BUT – it wasn’t his fault so much as the fault of those who refused to pay attention to the warnings of those around him who tried to get the attention of ‘the authorities’. THEY failed big time.
Let us all bow down and worship the gods of Political Correctness.
Could be. I remember reading the side effect list for something, I think it was something relatively harmless, like blood pressure medication, and way down in the fine print for side effects was “syncope and sudden death”. Scary. I asked the doctor about it. She said a large part of the approval process includes large-scale testing on thousands of people, and everything that happened has to be listed, even if it’s not really connected.
OTOH the few times I’ve tried anti-depressants I felt like I had ants living in my head. Definitely no fun, but it didn’t make me want to go an a rampage so much as it made me want to tell the shrink to fuck himself. What works for me is a good job where my work is appreciated and a pleasant living situation.
Which drugs were the worst mass murderers in history taking? I mean the real thing, not some pissant shoot-up in a high school.
Hitler: check. Massive doses of amphetamine, and god knows what else.
Stalin: Weird Russian pipe tobacco, Russian champagne; I don’t know about anything else.
Mao??
Pol Pot? (besides the obvious pun)
Kids, if you really want to rack up the death count go into politics.