Posted by Larry Hoover on March 26, 2005, at 21:24:00
In reply to the press does it again, posted by cubbybear on March 26, 2005, at 7:17:59
> I realize that this note might get re-directed, but I couldn't help commenting on the news story that I read on the Yahoo website tonight, re: the Minn. school shootings. Those good old reporters positively "have to" mention in the lead paragraph that the shooter was taking an anti-depressant, namely Prozac, prior to the rampage. For once I can empathize with the drug manufacturers over this useless sensationalist garbage. I mean, the FDA has already mandated a black box warning on every AD about administering them to young people, so what is mentioning the shooter's taking of Prozac in the article intended to accomplish now? Am I missing something?
This was a deeply troubled young man, who called himself "Todesengel", the Angel of Death. What is most tragic is that his violent writings and drawings were ignored, and that he had access to firearms. Obviously, treatment with a pharmacological antidepressive agent was insufficient to help him. Seeking to isolate that one factor from among all the others is pointless, and trivializes the torment in his mind.
Lar
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