Stephen Kazmierczak
Authorities Identify Former Student Who Killed 5 in Attack at Northern Illinois University
Police: Illinois campus gunman reportedly off medication
College shooter stopped taking his medications
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February 15, 2008 at 2:06 pm
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February 17, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Psychiatric medications, of course, are well known to cause extremely violent thoughts and behavior in young males. This is actually acknowledged by the FDA and is found in the black-box warnings printed on the packaging for such drugs. In Europe, the prescribing of many such drugs to children and teens is actually illegal. But in the United States, where psychiatric medications have become the “new medicine” for American youth, nobody seems to pay attention to the simple fact that every school shooting we’ve seen in the last decade has been committed by a young male with a history of treatment with psychiatric medications.
The mainstream media, of course, is trying to spin the story by claiming Stephen snapped because he stopped taking his medications. MSM headlines proclaim, “Illinois Shooter Stopped Taking His Medications.” What these headlines fail to communicate is the fact that psychiatric drugs cause long-term disruptions in the brain which lead to a strong dissociation with reality.
http://www.naturalnews.com/022656.html
February 17, 2008 at 8:48 pm
hi disinter,
Yes, psychiatric drugs cause many of the problems that you mentioned. However, Stephen was not a “young male” according to medical definition with side affects of these drugs. Stephen was 27 years old. According to all of the published content on the story, it wasn’t the medication that made him act erratic, it was the lack of (stopping) his medication.
just my $0.02
February 24, 2008 at 8:52 am
Two of the medications Steven was on can cause terrible problems in anyone of any age. I have sleep problems. I was advised by a sleep specialist to take Ambien. I avoid reading side effects before taking a drug so it doesn’t influence me. After a few days on it not only did it keep me awake all night but on a job that required extreme detail, and which I’d been doing for four years, I was having total memory lapses and actually stared at my computer screen and could not remember how to do my job. I finally read the side effects and found out Ambien causes amnesia, but “not to worry” the amnesia USUALLY occurs while you’re sleeping. Well, newsflash, it was causing amnesia in me during the day. This drug is dangerous.
Prozac was touted as an antidepressant that would also make you lose weight. People were begging their doctors for it when it first came out so they could lose weight. My sister went on it for obsessive-compulsive disorder. It did help clear up her thinking BUT she gained nearly 50 pounds on it.
The bottom line, is nothing that you put in your mouth comes for free. Everything right down to aspirin has a side effect. These drugs don’t necessarily “fix” people and often make them worse. Even tho a certain age group might have more problems with suicidal thoughts on Prozac, that doesn’t rule out other age groups having them. Many people on these drugs go off of them because the side effects are worse than the benefits.
Steven’s “crime” is what was going on in his head at the moment he started shooting. But going “off of his medication” was not necessarily wrong. It could just as well be that the medications caused his problem. Don’t make what he did a failure to comply to taking medications. I could go on for pages on what I’ve seen “beneficial” medications do to people.