Were These Knife Murders Provoked by Prescription Drugs?

[ellenrr]

It's a crime to jolt the most jaded Chicago TV News watchers. Last week, a 14-year-old girl in a Chicago suburb allegedly stabbed her 11-year-old half sister 40 times, killing her. News reports say the 14-year-old was angry over an argument the night before, set her alarm, got a kitchen knife and entered her sister's room. The suspect allegedly uttered that the younger girl was not thankful for what she had done with each stab wound, said police. The older sister's unappreciated services included cooking dinner, doing the 11-year-old's chores for her and keeping the household running, said news reports.

The stabbing comes a little over a year after another shocking Chicago area stabbing. Elzbieta Plackowska in the Chicago suburb of Naperville was charged with fatally stabbing her 7-year-old son 100 times and fatally stabbing a 5-year-old girl she was babysitting. Plackowska felt her husband "truly did not appreciate how fine a wife and mother she was," DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said. "She told the detectives that she thought by killing (her son) Justin she would make her husband hurt the way she hurt in their relationship," reporters were told. Plackowska also stabbed the two family dogs to death.

Are there two psychiatrists somewhere out there wishing they had not prescribed SSRI antidepressants, linked to such bizarre violence, to the suspects? We will probably never know. But bizarre knife murders--excessive, inexplicable and without clear motive--are increasingly associated with the widely-prescribed drug class which includes Prozac, Luvox, Zoloft, Paxil, Lexapro and Celexa. Bizarre violent acts are also associated with SNRI antidepressants (which include Effexor and Cymbalta) the antismoking drug Chantix and Lariam, an anti-malaria still in use in the military.



http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/martharosenberg/were-these-knife-murders-provoked-prescription-drugs

[Duckhunter935]

1. I think it is a big part

or it could be this


of course it was the knife, we all know.

[Barack_America]

2. This is a serious question?

From your article:

“The kind of energy, rage and insanity seen in a lot of crimes today was not seen before SSRIs appeared,” Rosie Meysenburg, founder of the website SSRI Stories told me in an interview shortly before her death.

That's apparently the "evidence". What SSRI was Lizzie Borden on, pray-tell?

[antiquie]

4. Wasn't Lizzie acquitted? ~ nt

[unblock]

5. not disagreeing with your point, but lizzie borden was acquitted.

[unblock]

3. there's also this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2053463/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[Eleanors38]

6. More likely the National Knife Association's "knives-for-everyone" campaign.

[madokie]

7. I remember upon my first visit to the VA

with a blood clot in my left leg. For some reason the doctor thought I needed Paxil. luckily I only took 1/2 of the pill. It was the worst three days of my life. Upon returning for a follow up on my blood work I told the doctor if he ever slipped shit like that onto me again I'd choke him to an inch of his life and I meant it. How any one can take the second pill is beyond me. I'm listed as having an allergic reaction to that now. It sucked and it still pisses me off thinking about it.