How Many Must Die

How many people must die before our courts recognize the truth?

L.S.D. , angel dust and antidepressants are all drugs that effect serotonin levels in the brain. People react differently to antidepressants. some hallucinate as with L.S.D. and some become violent as with angel dust.

Just a few of the people who committed homicide on antidepressants

Christopher Bernaiche, 26, (Prozac) of South Rockwood in 2002. Two days after Prozac dosage doubled, fired wildly around killing 2 men, and wounded 3 others after pool game argument. (Defense pleaded mentally ill and prozac induced rage, jury verdict 1st degree murder. Judge has recently ordered a retrial as prosecution withheld info sent to them relating to evidence linking prozac and violence. Retrial Pending)

David John Hawkins aged 76, Australia (Zoloft) strangled his much loved wife with no warning. (Judge found: "I am satisfied that but for the Zoloft he had taken, he would not have strangled his wife").

Andrew Myers, 28 (Zoloft) Within two weeks of starting on Zoloft he hit a long-time friend in the head with a spiked, pronged brass knuckle-type weapon known as a "ninja key ring" during an argument. Attempted murder charges. (Acquitted - zoloft induced).

Leslie Demeniuk, Florida, (Zoloft then Paxil) killed her four-year-old twin sons in 2001. (Trial is on hold while prosecutors appeal a judge’s ruling that two defense experts could testify that Demeniuk was “involuntarily intoxicated” and “psychotic” as a result of taking Zoloft and then Paxil.).

Donald Schell, (Paxil). 48 hours after starting Paxil, he killed his wife, daughter, granddaughter and himself. (Jury found Paxil at cause and ordered GlaxoSmithKline to pay $6.4 million to surviving family members.).

Barbara Mortenson aged 66 (Prozac) attacked her 81-year-old mother, biting her more than 20 times and leaving chunks of flesh strewn on the floor after being on prozac for two weeks.

Merrilee Bentley Australia, (Paxil then Effexor) attempted murder (with suicide) of her young daughters. (Judge ruled that Effexor had "gravely impaired" Merrilee Bentley's capacity for rational thought and action. He imposed a two-year suspended jail sentence and told her she was free to go home.).

Christopher Pittman, aged 12, (Paxil then Zoloft). Known amongst family as 'pop-pops shadow', he had always been very close to his grandfather. Shortly after being prescribed Zoloft he shot both his grandparents dead and burned the house down. Imprisoned, he waited 3 years for trial, and was then tried as an adult - a practice acceptable in the USA. (Defense pleaded involuntary intoxication. Preparing for the expected homicidality-zoloft link, Pfizer lawyers involved themselves early into the case with prosecution. Jury opted for murder verdict).

Victor Brancaccio (Zoloft) aged 16, Florida, Learning disability. 2 months into Zoloft & with increasing hostility and anger, killed a woman who said something which upset him while he was taking a walk to try to calm down. (Judge refused to instruct the jury re involuntarily intoxication, Victor was convicted of 1st degree murder, life sentence)

Daryl Dempsay, 35, (Zoloft) stabbed his wife and two children at their home in Burlington, Kan., then shot and killed himself.

Mark Barton, Atlanta day trader, (Prozac) killed his family and others in a shooting spree before taking his own life.

Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister

Neal Furrow, (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.

Young man in Amarillo, TX (Prozac, Ritalin and another antidepressant) burned down a church and pastor’s home.

Sergi Babarin (Luvox withdrawal) The Salt Lake Family History Library shooting leaving three dead.

Dr. Debra Green (Prozac) Kansas City, MO, set her home on fire, killing her children.

Eric Harris aged 17 (Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 in Colombine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado, killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and injured 23 others, before killing themselves.

Shawn Cooper, (SSRI) Notus Idaho, stand off at school.

Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) - school shooting in El Cajon, California

Another boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) had a stand off at the school.

Jarred Viktor aged 15 (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.

Chris Shanahan aged 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman.

Matthew Beck (Luvox) shooting at the lottery in Connecticut that left five dead in a murder/suicide.

Edward Leary aged 49 (prescribed combo of Prozac, Effexor, and 2 other psych drugs) computer consultant. Bombings in NY subway, 50 injured. (Defense pleaded drug intoxication, verdict of guilty, 94 years prison sentence).

Elizabeth Bush aged 13 (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania.

Little Timmy. 10 year old (Prozac) in southern Florida.

Nick Mansies (Paxil) in New Jersey who was convicted of killing a little boy selling cookies door to door.

Sue Gray, Orange County, CA (Paxil) who co-workers described as a very caring nurse, killed several elderly people.

Officer Stephen Christian (Prozac) one of the finest officers on the Dallas Police force, who ran into a police substation shooting at fellow officers and was killed;

Williams Evans (Zoloft) shot one co-worker at the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services before shooting himself in Columbus, OH.

Christina Fetters aged 14 (Prozac) in Iowa who killed her favourite aunt.

David Rothman (Prozac) killed two co-workers and himself at the Dept. of Agriculture in Inglewood, CA.

Christopher Vasquez (Zoloft) killed Michael McMorrow in Central Park.

Megan Hogg (Prozac) duct taped the mouths and noses of her three little girls and took a handful of pills.

Steven Leith (Prozac), teacher of Chelsea, Michigan, shot dead the school superintendent and wounded two others including a fellow teacher.

Vera Espinoza (Prozac) in Randolph, VT shot her small son and daughter before shooting herself.

Mr Cunningham (Prozac) in Layton, UT axed his wife and daughter to death.

Margaret Kastanis (Prozac) used a knife and hammer to kill her three children before stabbing herself to death.

Adrea Yates (Remeron-Effexor) of Houston, TX, drowned her five children in the bathtub. The drugs had been prescribed at one and a half times the maximum dose.

Elderly man (Paxil) in Dallas, TX strangled his wife before shooting himself twice in the chest.

Lynwood Drake III, (Prozac and Valium) of California, shot and killed six people before shooting himself.

Larry Ashbrook (Prozac) killed seven people and himself in a Forth Worth, Texas, church.

Larramie Huntzinger (Zoloft) ran his car into three young girls killing two in Salt Lake City, UT.

Mary Hinkelman (Prozac), a nurse in Baroda, MI shot her two small daughters and her sister before shooting herself.

Lisa Fox (Prozac) shot her small son and her dog before shooting herself in Brighton, MI.

Debi Louselle (Zoloft) shot her daughter and then herself in Salt Lake City, UT.

Gloria B. (Prozac) in Pleasant Grove, UT killed her 17 year old son with a sledge hammer while he slept before she attempted suicide by drinking drain cleaner.

Larry Butzz, (Prozac) a superintendent of schools in Ames, IA shot his wife, son and daughter before shooting himself.

Michael McDermott (Prozac) - Software tester who walked into work and shot seven co-workers.

Joseph T Wesbecker, Kentucky (Prozac) went into work with an AK-47 and a couple of pistols, killed 7 co-workers injured 12.

Gail Ann Ransom. (Prozac) Became increasingly violent after beginning Prozac treatment culminating in the strangulation of her mother.

Kip Kinkel (Prozac) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.

Hank Adams: (Prozac) Former San Diego Deputy Sheriff shot his wife and himself to death in front of his seventeen-year-old daughter.

Reginald Payne (Prozac) UK teacher aged 63, eleven days into Prozac suffocated his wife and then committed suicide by jumping off a cliff.

Duncan Murchison, (Prozac) threatened to murder his girlfriend while on a rampage.

Jeff Franklin (Prozac/Ritalin) , Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work. He used a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister

Luke Woodham aged 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.

Larry Gene Ashbrook (Prozac) killed seven people and himself in church in Fort Worth Texas.

Boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 who in seizure activity from Zoloft had a stand off at the school.

Chris Shanahan aged 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman.

Mrs. Phil Hartman (Zoloft, but also taking Cocaine) , killed her husband and then herself. (Wrongful death court case was filed but settled by the Zoloft manufacturer).

Marilyn Lemak (Zoloft) of Naperville, IL killed her three children.

Young man in Amarillo, TX, young man (Prozac, Ritalin and another antidepressant) burned down a church and pastor’s home.

Kristine Marie Cushing, age 39 (Prozac) shot and killed her two children, then shot herself in failed suicide attempt.

Kenneth Seguin (Prozac) drugged his two children, cut their wrists and dumped their bodies in a nearby pond before driving home and killing his wife with an axe while she slept.

Ryan Ehlis, college student, (Adderall)

in North Dakota, killed his infant daughter in a psychotic episode shortly after commencing adderall 'treatment'.

Corey Baadsgard Given Paxil then EFFEXOR for social anxiety disorder: woke up after first day of full Effexor dose in juvenile detention center. He couldn't remember it, but he had "taken my high-powered rifle that I use for hunting to my third period class, took 23 of my classmates hostage and 1 teacher hostage."

Jame Tierney was given (EFFEXOR) for migraines. When the dose was raised to 150 mg/day, "I thought daily about suicide and hurting myself. I felt void of normal emotions. I was so belligerent, agitated, and filled with hate - hate for my family, my friends, and most of all myself. Rage consumed me. I felt trapped. I said and did things I had never done before and never would do now. I had little control and little inhibition. It was as if I was watching a movie and some villain was destroying all the relationships around me. I spent my time alone and viciously fighting with my parents. They would ask what was wrong and what had happened to me. I could not answer them because I did not know or understand myself. I was terrified. I had never had these feelings before I took Effexor, I have never had these feelings since I stopped taking the Effexor.."

Christopher Pittman 14 year old writes the FDA "I would like to tell you what happened to me, what the medication did to me and how it made me feel."When I was taking ZOLOFT, I took the lives of two people that I loved more than anything, my grandparents. I went to the doctor and he gave me a sample pack of Zoloft. He told me to take 50 milligrams once in the morning and another 50 at night."I didn't notice a change in my behavior until I was completely off the medication. It made me hate everyone. The smallest things made me blow up, and I started getting into fights, which was not me. I would usually avoid fights. Before the medication, I had only been in two fights my whole life. I just hated the whole world for no apparent reason."A week after the doctor gave me the sample packs, he increased my dosage to 200 milligrams a day. Everything just kept getting worse. Then, I snapped. I took everything out on my grandparents who I loved so very much."When I was lying in my bed that night, I couldn't sleep because my voice in my head kept echoing through my mind telling me to kill them until I got up, got the gun, and I went upstairs and I pulled the trigger."

Todd Shivak 11 yr old son given (PAXIL). "It is impossible to describe the pain and utter helplessness we all felt watching Michael suffer, watch him cry, take up weapons against us, and beg us to let him die. How do you erase the picture of your child trying to run in front of a moving car?"

Lance R. Ossman, 37, (effexor) Fired a barrage of bullets into a truck when it pulled up behind him, killing its driver.Ossman who told police after being arrested that he was possessed by a demon, is charged with homicide, but has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Prosecutors have said Ossman should be found guilty but mentally ill. Ossman had been diagnosed as bipolar,

Douglas Fathke,(ANTIDEPRESSANTS) accused in the shooting death of his 8-year-old daughter Kelsie in 2003, accepted a plea agreement in which he was found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder.

Dawn Serrena Young (EFFEXOR) Accused of murdering her toddler, told detectives that she killed the child to protect her from spirits that had been sexually abusing the baby.

Eric Jeror, 20, Attacked his father with an ax will likely receive in-patient psychiatric help rather than serve time in state prison for attempted murder. Prescribed twice the recommended dosage of effexor, which is not supposed to be prescribed to teens and is under wide scrutiny in the legal and psychiatric communities.

Robert W. "Wes" Boner (EFFEXOR)(bipolar disorder) strangled his girlfriend. Boner told police he was agitated at the time of the slaying on April 2, 2004, but did not know why.

Cheryl

My Boyfriend Committed Murder Thanks to Effexor

“(His doctor) cut him off his medication ‘cold turkey’ and put him directly on Buspar.”

My boyfriend, who had been on 225 mg of Effexor for over a year, started having severe headaches. . Steve has always been such a kind caring person. . .

Vince Gilmer, 42, of Fletcher, N.C. strangled his father and mutilated the corpse. Withdrawal from an antidepressant medication left him unable to resist the impulse to kill.

Arthur James Charland, 42, Effexor, Shot to death Linda Faye Owens, with whom he had an 11-year affair.

A 10-year-old suspected of fatally shooting his father, Dr. Rick Lohstroh, has been charged with murder. The boy, who was taking the antidepressant Prozac at the time his father was slain, The week before the shooting the boy started taking a once-a-week, time-release dosage of 90 milligrams. He took his second 90-milligram pill just hours before the shooting.

Lakeisha Adams, 18 Killed her 3-month-old son by putting him in a clothes dryer and turning it on for several minutes. A bottle of antidepressant medication was found in the home. "she remained calm throughout the whole situation and never really showed much emotion."

Bizarre behavior and a lack of emotion are often noticed in people suffering from antidepressant psychosis.

Eric Attwood, 82, antidepressant Wellbutrin. Twelve days after taking the first pill, Eric attacked his wife, and was planning to kill himself, court documents say. His family, now aware of recent governmental warnings about potential risks associated with antidepressants, suspect there is a connection between the drug and Eric’s violent outburst. ::: Margaret Attwood’s eyes opened just as her husband of 60 years thrust the kitchen knife into her neck.

She had little time to react, not even out of disbelief. She turned over in bed to see her husband, Eric, his face with no expression, no emotion, preparing to strike her again with the knife.

At that moment, as she looked into that vacant, cold face, she knew she had to survive — not only for her daughters, her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren.

She had to survive to be his witness. Only she could describe that vacant expression, the proof to her that something had gone terribly wrong in his mind. “If I don’t stop him, if he kills me, there won’t be anybody to know how he looks,” said Attwood, as she recalled her thoughts on the early morning of Oct. 3. “There was no sign of an expression on his face. It was just blank, just like a zombie