Sunderland Echo

Uninformed!

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I would rather be writing about something positive or ground-breaking, but I'm writing again on the subject of school shootings.

The thoughts of people around the world will lie with the families affected by the latest tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Texas.

As the search for answers begin, the cause of violent behaviour will again go under the spotlight, along with gun laws in the United States.

While there is never one simple explanatio­n for what drives a human being to commit such unspeakabl­e acts, all too often one common denominato­r has surfaced in hundreds of cases, prescribed psychiatri­c drugs that are documented to cause mania, psychosis, violence, suicide and in some cases, homicidal ideation.

The general public remain uninformed about the well-documented links between psychiatri­c drugs and violence.

At least 37 school shootings and or schoolrela­ted acts of violence have been committed by those taking or withdrawin­g from psychiatri­c drugs, resulting in 175 wounded and 82 killed.

Following the latest shooting in Texas, another 21 tragic deaths are going to be added to the abysmal death toll.

Internatio­nal drug regulatory warnings and studies reveal the link between psychiatri­c drugs and acts of violence and homicide.

There are also hundreds of cases where high profile acts of violence and mass murder were committed by individual­s under the influence of psychiatri­c drugs.

But despite 27 internatio­nal drug regulatory warnings on psychiatri­c drugs, there has yet to be a federal investigat­ion on the link between the drugs and acts of senseless violence.

The dangers of

psychiatri­c drugs have been known for decades so, as responsibl­e citizens, we have to continue to repeat this message so that the populace is informed and so that school shootings become confined to the history books rather than being the headlines.

“We need to confine school shootings to the

history books.”

Brian Daniels, National Spokespers­on, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (United Kingdom).

 ?? ?? The latest tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Texas.
The latest tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Texas.

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