PAXIL May Have Driven NY City Council Killer's Rage
Posted on Tuesday, July 29 @ 12:57:26 EDT
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Antidepressants May Have Driven Killer's Rage, Reports NY Post
SSRI Drugs Induce Psychosis, Suicidal Aggression, Says Disinformation's ABUSE YOUR ILLUSIONS.
Could prescription drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline's antidepressant Paxil, now banned for children in Britain and France, have fuelled the New York City Hall shooter Othniel Askew's vengeance?
So reports the New York Post. Following the murder of NYC Councilman James Davies, police investigators found prescriptions for Paxil in the Askew's Brooklyn townhouse. Davies' July 23 assassination is one of the highest profile tragedies yet in a disturbing trend of violence perpetrated by users of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor antidepressants, as outlined by ABUSE YOUR ILLUSIONS contributor Richard Degrandpre.
DeGrandpre's 'The Lilly Suicides' presents the hidden case studies and corporate secrets behind SSRI manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Eli Lilly. Shattering the marketing myths accepted as conventional wisdom, DeGrandpre cites evidence that
- Prozac increases suicide rates among patients
- Paxil induces a range of physical and psychological agitations
- Drug companies like Eli Lilly have resorted to secret cash settlements and legal subterfuge to evade damaging verdicts and bad publicity. "The scary part is that [the patients] focus in on one individual and they begin to have a paranoid reaction towards them - a hatred," said Lisa Van Syckel, whose 15 year-old daughter mutilated herself with a razor and attempted suicide several times after being placed on Paxil. "One moment they're calm and the next they hate you."
Precedents exist for multi-million dollar awards against GSK, and judges have recognized SSRI antidepressants as factors influencing violent behavior. A Wyoming family successfully sued GSK for $8 million dollars after Donald Schell, a 60 year-old grandfather, murdered his sleeping wife, daughter and infant granddaughter before turning the gun on himself. In May 2001, an Australian court acquitted a 74 year-old man of strangling his wife only two days after starting Zoloft.
Askew's rage and violence snowballed in the days leading up to his attack. "He was just more and more obsessed that this was his seat," said Anthony Herbert, a Brooklyn candidate for City Council and a confidante of Askew.
Said Dr. David Healy, a University of Wales professor whose testimony led to the banning of Paxil in Britain, "The drug can make you more anxious, more anxious than you have ever been in your life."
Richard Degrandpre, a visiting professor at St. Michael's College in Vermont, is the author of "Ritalin Nation" and "Digitopia." For more information on Richard Degrandpre or The Disinformation Company, please contact Ralph Bernardo at 212-691-1605 (tel), 212-473-8096 (fax) or [email protected]