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Originally Posted by d-null
the point of the original question was that I was curious if it is a product of a certain generation that may have been the beginning of the usage of psychiatric drugs at a young age to treat all of the newfangled psychiatric conditions like ADD and ADHD, so I wonder if there might be a huge danger in messing with the brain chemistry of young developing children where they prescribe drugs to schoolkids which wasn't done to anywhere close to the same extent a generation before that
I wonder about how many of these shooters and what their histories were with psychiatric "meds" ??
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Between 1990 and 1995, use of methylphenidate more than doubled, according to a 1996 study at Johns Hopkins University. By mid-1995, it found, nearly 3 percent of American children and youths, or about 2.5 million, were taking it. And that number appears to have kept rising, so that by now, it may have hit 3.75 million, according to a rough estimate by Dr. Lawrence Diller, author of "Running on Ritalin" (Bantam, 1998).
From what I've read it seems the majority of kids who have shot up schools were on some kind of SSRI's.
http://www.ssristories.com/index.php?p=school