{"id":194345,"date":"2019-09-06T05:44:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T05:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=194345"},"modified":"2019-09-08T07:08:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T07:08:20","slug":"psychiatry-in-charge-of-gun-control-utter-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=194345","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatry in Charge of Gun Control: Utter Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Rappaport \u2013 Activist Post Sept 5, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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During the reign of Barack Obama, mass shootings prompted a White House declaration that community mental health centers would be created across America, in order to spot and treat persons before they committed violent acts. Now, under Trump, we are seeing a similar reaction, with a twist.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Daily Caller, Aug 22, 2019: \u201cTrump Admin Is Considering Using Amazon Echo And Apple Watch To Determine If Citizens Should Own A Gun\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trump administration is considering a proposal that would use Google, Amazon and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could lead to violent behavior, The Washington Post reported Thursday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe proposal is part of an initiative to create a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), which would be located inside the Health and Human Services Department, the report notes, citing sources inside the administration. The new agency would have a separate budget and the president would be responsible for appointing its director.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHARPA would develop \u2018breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence,\u2019 according to a copy of the proposal. \u2018A multi-modality solution, along with real-time data analytics, is needed to achieve such an accurate diagnosis\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe document lists several technologies that could be employed to help collect information, including Apple Watches, Amazon Echo and Google Home. Geoffrey Ling, the lead scientific adviser on HARPA, told reporters Thursday the plan would require enormous amounts of data and \u2018scientific rigor.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Translation: Use all available resources to spy on Americans; and by deploying psychiatric definitions of mental disorders<\/em>, somehow intercede before potentially violent individuals can legally obtain a weapon. Whether or not you favor gun control, creating this new federal agency would be on the order of injecting poisons in people to prevent poisoning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why?<\/strong> Because some of the most popular psychiatric drugs, given for \u201cmental disorders,\u201d cause people to go over the edge and commit violent acts, including murder. Once diagnosed, an uninformed person is at the mercy of psychiatrists who refuse<\/em> to admit what their drugs are creating.<\/span><\/p>\n

NOTE: Withdrawing from the drugs without expert supervision can result in effects which are even worse than those resulting from taking the drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is an excerpt from my 1999 white paper, \u201cWhy Do They Do It? School shootings Across America<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

The massacre at Columbine High School took place on April 20, 1999. Astonishingly, for eight days after the tragedy, during thousands of hours of prime-time television coverage, virtually no one mentioned the word \u201cdrugs.\u201d Then the issue was opened. Eric Harris, one of the shooters at Columbine, was on at least one drug.<\/span><\/p>\n

The NY Times of April 29, 1999, and other papers reported that Harris was rejected from enlisting in the Marines for medical reasons. A friend of the family told the Times that Harris was being treated by a psychiatrist. And then several sources told the Washington Post that the drug prescribed as treatment was Luvox, manufactured by Solvay.<\/span><\/p>\n

In two more days, the \u201cdrug-issue\u201d was gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Luvox is of the same class as Prozac and Zoloft and Paxil. They are labeled SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). They attempt to alleviate depression by changing brain-levels of the natural substance serotonin. Luvox has a slightly different chemical configuration from Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft, and it was approved by the FDA for obsessive-compulsive disorder, although many doctors apparently prescribe it for depression.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prozac is the wildly popular Eli Lilly antidepressant which has been linked to suicidal and homicidal actions. It is now given to young children. Again, its chemical composition is very close to Luvox, the drug that Harris took.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Peter Breggin, the eminent psychiatrist and author (Toxic Psychiatry, Talking Back to Prozac, Talking Back to Ritalin<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>), told me, \u201cWith Luvox there is some evidence of a four-percent rate for mania in adolescents. Mania, for certain individuals, could be a component in grandiose plans to destroy large numbers of other people. Mania can go over the hill to psychosis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Joseph Tarantolo is a psychiatrist in private practice in Washington DC. He is the president of the Washington chapter of the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians. Tarantolo states that \u201call the SSRIs [including Prozac and Luvox] relieve the patient of feeling. He becomes less empathic, as in `I don\u2019t care as much,\u2019 which means `It\u2019s easier for me to harm you.\u2019 If a doctor treats someone who needs a great deal of strength just to think straight, and gives him one of these drugs, that could push him over the edge into violent behavior.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In Arianna Huffington\u2019s syndicated newspaper column of July 9, 1998, Dr. Breggin states, \u201cI have no doubt that Prozac can cause or contribute to violence and suicide. I\u2019ve seen many cases. In a recent clinical trial, 6 percent of the children became psychotic on Prozac. And manic psychosis can lead to violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A study from the September 1989 Journal of Clinical Psychiatry<\/em>, by Joseph Lipiniski, Jr., indicates that in five examined cases people on Prozac developed what is called akathesia. Symptoms include intense anxiety, inability to sleep, the \u201cjerking of extremities,\u201d and \u201cbicycling in bed or just turning around and around.\u201d Dr. Breggin comments that akathesia \u201cmay also contribute to the drug\u2019s tendency to cause self-destructive or violent tendencies \u2026 Akathesia can become the equivalent of biochemical torture and could possibly tip someone over the edge into self-destructive or violent behavior \u2026 The June 1990 Health Newsletter<\/em>, produced by the Public Citizen Research Group, reports, \u2018Akathesia, or symptoms of restlessness, constant pacing, and purposeless movements of the feet and legs, may occur in 10-25 percent of patients on Prozac.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Other studies:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEmergence of self-destructive phenomena in children and adolescents during fluoxetine [Prozac] treatment,\u201d published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1991, vol.30), written by RA King, RA Riddle, et al. It reports self-destructive phenomena in 14% (6\/42) of children and adolescents (10-17 years old) who had treatment with fluoxetine (Prozac) for obsessive-compulsive disorder.<\/span><\/p>\n

July, 1991. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Hisako Koizumi, MD, describes a thirteen-year-old boy who was on Prozac: \u201cfull of energy,\u201d \u201chyperactive,\u201d \u201cclown-like.\u201d All this devolved into sudden violent actions which were \u201ctotally unlike him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

September, 1991. The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Author Laurence Jerome reports the case of a ten-year old who moves with his family to a new location. Becoming depressed, the boy is put on Prozac by a doctor. The boy is then \u201chyperactive, agitated \u2026 irritable.\u201d He makes a \u201csomewhat grandiose assessment of his own abilities.\u201d Then he calls a stranger on the phone and says he is going to kill him. The Prozac is stopped, and the symptoms disappear.<\/span><\/p>\n

The well-known Goodman and Gilman\u2019s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics reveals a strange fact. It states that Ritalin [given for ADHD] is \u201cstructurally related to amphetamines \u2026 Its pharmacological properties are essentially the same as those of the amphetamines.\u201d In other words, the only clear difference is legality. And the effects, in layman\u2019s terms, are obvious. You take speed and, sooner or later, you start crashing. You become agitated, irritable, paranoid, delusional, aggressive.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his book, Toxic Psychiatry<\/em>, Dr. Breggin discusses the subject of drug combinations: \u201cCombining antidepressants [e.g., Prozac, Luvox, Paxil] and psychostimulants [e.g., Ritalin] increases the risk of cardiovascular catastrophe, seizures, sedation, euphoria, and psychosis. Withdrawal from the combination can cause a severe reaction that includes confusion, emotional instability, agitation, and aggression.\u201d Children are frequently medicated with this combination, and when we highlight such effects as aggression, psychosis, and emotional instability, it is obvious that the result is pointing toward the very real possibility of violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1986, The International Journal of the Addictions published a most important literature review by Richard Scarnati. It was titled, \u201cAn Outline of Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin (Methylphenidate)\u201d [v.21(7), pp. 837-841].<\/span><\/p>\n

Scarnati listed over a hundred adverse affects of Ritalin and indexed published journal articles for each of these symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

For every one of the following (selected and quoted verbatim) Ritalin effects then, there is at least one confirming source in the medical literature:<\/span><\/p>\n