Antidepressants and Mass Killings

E-Mail from July 26 2015

Pfizer Canada (2004 May 26) Stronger warning for SSRIs and other newer antidepressants regarding the potential for behavioural and emotional changes, including risk of self-harm, see, e.g., http://antidepressantsfacts.com/2004-05-26-HC-suicid-self-harm-zoloft.htm

Dysphoric mania or agitated depression, is a condition during which features of mania and depression -such as agitation, anxiety, fatigue, guilt, impulsiveness, irritability, morbid or suicidal ideation, panic, paranoia, pressured speech and rage - occur simultaneously or in very short succession, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_state_%28psychiatry%29

E-mail from Brian N. Connors, Chief Deputy State Public Defender at the Office of the State Public Defender in Denver, Colorado, August 19, 2012

David Healy, List of School and Mass Shooters and Drugs

e-mail from May 29, 2015

e-mail from July 14, 2015

The USA labels for all antidepressants as of August 2004 note that "anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity, akathisia (psychomotor restlessness), hypomania, and mania have been reported in adult and pediatric patients being treated with antidepressants for major depressive disorder as well as for other indications, both psychiatric and nonpsychiatric", see http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/UCM173233.pdf

see, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Rating_Scale_for_Depression or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery%E2%80%93%C3%85sberg_Depression_Rating_Scale

E-mail from May 29, 2015

see: http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=298 or see: http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=295 or see http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/prozac-defence-stands-in-manitoba-teens-murder-case

64 see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564177/pdf/pmed.0030372.pdf or see http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/showciting?cid=16737698

David Healy, Let them eat Prozac, New York University Press, 2004, pp. 124-148