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Dr. Tracy says the Columbine killers’ brains were awash in serotonin, the chemical which causes violence and aggression and triggers a sleep-walking disorder in which a person literally acts out their worst nightmare. Harris became obsessed with homicidal and suicidal thoughts “within weeks” after he began taking Zoloft, according to Dr. Tracy. Due to his obsession with killing, Harris was switched to Luvox, which was in his system at the time of the shooting, according to his autopsy. However, the change from Zoloft to Luvox is like switching from Pepsi to Coke, Dr. Tracy said.

A growing number of school shootings and other shooting rampages were committed by individuals under the influence of, or in withdrawal from, psychiatric drugs known to cause mania, psychosis, violence and even homicide. Consider this list of 13 massacres over the past decade or so, resulting in 54 dead and 105 wounded – and these are just the ones where the psychiatric drugs are known. In other cases, medical records were sealed or autopsy reports not made public or, in some cases, toxicology tests were either not done to test for psychiatric drugs or not disclosed to the public. But this is what we do know about the mental health “treatment” of those who committed these acts of violence:

Dekalb, Illinois – February 14, 2008: 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak shot and killed five people and wounded 16 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amount of Xanax in his system.
Omaha, Nebraska – December 5, 2007: 19-year-old Robert Hawkins killed eight people and wounded five before committing suicide in an Omaha mall. Hawkins’ friend told CNN that the gunman was on antidepressants, and autopsy results confirmed he was under the influence of the “anti-anxiety” drug Valium.
Jokela, Finland – November 7, 2007: 18-year-old Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School in southern Finland, then committed suicide.
Cleveland, Ohio – October 10, 2007: 14-year-old Asa Coon stormed through his school with a gun in each hand, shooting and wounding four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon had been placed on the antidepressant Trazodone.
Blacksburg, Virginia – April 16, 2007: 23-year-old Seung Hui Cho shot to death 32 students and faculty of Virginia Tech, wounding 17 more, and then killing himself. He had received prior mental health treatment, however his mental health records remained sealed.
Red Lake, Minnesota – March 2005: 16-year-old Jeff Weise, on Prozac, shot and killed his grandparents, then went to his school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation where he shot dead 7 students and a teacher, and wounded 7 before killing himself.
Greenbush, New York – February 2004: 16-year-old Jon Romano strolled into his high school in east Greenbush and opened fire with a shotgun. Special education teacher Michael Bennett was hit in the leg. Romano had been taking “medication for depression”.
El Cajon, California – March 22, 2001: 18-year-old Jason Hoffman, on the antidepressants Celexa and Effexor, opened fire on his classmates, wounding three students and two teachers at Granite Hills High School.
Williamsport, Pennsylvania – March 7, 2001: 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was taking the antidepressant Prozac when she shot at fellow students, wounding one.
Conyers, Georgia – May 20, 1999: 15-year-old T.J. Solomon was being treated with antidepressants when he opened fire on and wounded six of his classmates.
Columbine, Colorado – April 20, 1999: 18-year-old Eric Harris and his accomplice, Dylan Klebold, killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 26 others before killing themselves. Harris was on the antidepressant Luvox. Klebold’s medical records remain sealed.
Notus, Idaho – April 16, 1999: 15-year-old Shawn Cooper fired two shotgun rounds in his school, narrowly missing students. He was taking a prescribed SSRI antidepressant and Ritalin.
Springfield, Oregon – May 21, 1998: 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his parents and then proceeded to school where he opened fire on students in the cafeteria, killing two and wounding 22. Kinkel had been taking the antidepressant Prozac.

Filmmaker Michael Moore, who directed the documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” has said this, following his extensive look at the Columbine tragedy:

“In Bowling for Columbine,” we never really came up with the answer in terms of why this happened. I think we did a good job of exposing [that] all the reasons that were given were a bunch of B.S. ….And none of it really made any sense. That’s why I believe there should be an investigation in terms of what…prescribed pharmaceuticals these kids were on….

“It just would be shocking…to the millions of parents who prescribe this for their kids if it was finally explained to them, if this is the case, that this perhaps occurred for no other reason other than because of these prescriptions. “Imagine what that would do, imagine how people would totally re-think things – grasping for every little straw they can to explain why something like Columbine happens, when in fact it may be nothing more than this. How else do you explain two otherwise decent kids, very smart, no history of violence to other kids in the school – why them, why did this happen? It’s an extremely legitimate question to pose, and it demands an investigation.”

Alle Menschen mit Autismus [Laut Forenregeln diskriminierender Begriff] in Deutschland und ihre Angehörigen und Freunde mit ihnen, fühlen sich durch eine derartige Berichterstattung diskreditiert.

autismus Deutschland e.V. vertritt als Bundesverband die Belange von Menschen mit Autismus [Laut Forenregeln diskriminierender Begriff] und dem Asperger-Syndrom

Bevor ein Jugendlicher zum Amokläufer wird, glaubt Jens Hoffmann, Leiter des Instituts Psychologie und Bedrohungsmanagement in Darmstadt, gibt es oft eindeutige Signale. Werden diese frühzeitig erkannt, lassen sich Gewalttaten möglicherweise verhindern. Zu diesem Zweck hat der deutsche Kriminalpsychologe ein Computerprogramm zur Risikoeinschätzung von potenziell gefährlichen Schülern und ehemaligen Schülern entwickelt. Es heisst Dynamisches Risikoanalyse-System, kurz Dyrias.

Zürich hat Dyrias im Jahr 2009 als erste europäische Stadt in einem Präventionsprojekt getestet; seit September 2010 ist es definitiv implementiert. [...]

Die Grundlage des Programms bildet ein verhaltenspsychologischer Vergleich von Dutzenden Amokläufen in den USA und in Deutschland. Laut Hoffmann liessen sich dabei erstaunliche Parallelen feststellen. Die Benutzer von Dyrias müssen 30 Fragen zum auffälligen Schüler beantworten.

Jedes Jahr sterben durch Schusswaffen in den USA mehr als 30.000 Menschen und es ist fraglich, ob bessere Behandlungsmöglichkeiten für psychisch Kranke diese Zahl deutlich senken würde. Nicht wenige meinen, es sei die mächtige Waffenlobby, die die Debatte auf Missstände in der Behandlung von psychischen Erkrankungen einzuschränken versucht.

So hielten sich in den letzten Tagen selbst republikanische Senatoren, die sonst lautstark für Waffenrechte eintreten, auffallend bedeckt. Eine bekannte politische Talkshow, die am Sonntag 31 von ihnen ins Studio lud, kassierte 31 Absagen. Wenn Republikaner dieser Tage aber doch einmal im Fernsehen auftreten, dann reden sie stets über ein und dasselbe Thema: psychische Erkrankungen.