Guns vs. Doctors vs Legal Drugs - Who causes the most death?

ACCIDENTAL Deaths:

DOCTORS:
(A) Number of physicians in the U.S. : 700,000
(B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year : 120,000
C) Therefore accidental deaths per physician : 0.171
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health, Human Services.

GUNS :
(A) Number of gun owners in the U.S. : 80 Million
(B) Number of accidental gun deaths per year, (all age groups) : 1,500
(C) Therefore, number of accidental deaths per gun owner : .000188
Statistics courtesy of the FBI


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Death by legal drugs:

At the time of the Columbine and similar incidents , President Bill Clinton commissioned a study to gather information as to the cause and trigger of these mass killings. Researchers were expecting to find common denominators such as children from broken homes , abuse , poverty etc.

Such was not the case. The research clearly showed the common denominator of these youth killers was that they were on prescription medications for treatment of ADD , depression etc.

The next question was along the lines of these youths having had previous mental and emotional problems that were the underlying cause of these violent acts.

Such was not the case. These medications had been prescribed because parents had complained to their doctors that these children were not paying enough attention in school , were too active at home etc. In other words these boys were typical normal children who wanted to be riding their bikes instead of doing homework etc .

Furthermore , historical clinical studies on some of these drugs had shown that one in ten patients were known to show abnormal levels of anger as a side effect caused by the drugs.

This information was presented to the President's office and he chose to bury it because of all the ramifications and harm to the pharmaceutical industry.

The lead researcher (an MD) went ahead and published the information herself . If I can find the documents I will provide the link. She published it in book form.

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Here it is:

Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.,
Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness
Website: www.drugawareness.org
Author: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare

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Here is her speech to the FDA:

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Dr. Ann Blake Tracy's Testimony before the FDA, September 13, 2004

I am Ann Blake Tracy, PhD, head of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness (www.drugawareness.org). I am the author of Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? -
Our Serotonin Nightmare and have testified in court cases involving antidepressants for 12 1/2 years. The last 15 years of my life have been devoted full time to
researching and writing about SSRI antidepressants.

Research on serotonin has been clear from the very beginning that the most damaging thing that could be done to the serotonin system would be to impair one's
ability to metabolize serotonin. Yet that is exactly how SSRI antidepressants exert their effects.

For decades research has shown that impairing serotonin metabolism will produce migraines, hot flashes, pains around the heart, difficulty breathing, a worsening
of bronchial complaints, tension and anxiety which appear from out of nowhere, depression, suicide - especially very violent suicide, hostility, violent crime, arson,
substance abuse, psychosis, mania, organic brain disease, autism, anorexia, reckless driving, Alzheimer's, impulsive behavior with no concern for punishment,
and argumentative behavior.

How anyone ever thought it would be "therapeutic" to chemically induce these reactions is beyond me. Yet, these reactions are exactly what we have witnessed
in our society over the past decade and a half as a result of the widespread use of these drugs.

In fact we even have a whole new vocabulary as a result with terms such as "road rage," "suicide by cop," "murder/suicide," "going postal," "false memory
syndrome," "school shooting," "bi-polar" - every third person you meet anymore - along with the skyrocketing rates of antidepressant-induced diabetes and
hypoglycemia.

Can you remember two decades ago when depressed people used to slip away quietly to kill themselves rather than killing everyone around them and then
themselves as they do while taking SSRI antidepressants?

A study out of the University of Southern California in 1996 looked at a group of mutant mice in an experiment that had gone terribly wrong. These genetically
engineered mice were the most violent creatures they had ever witnessed. They were born lacking the MAO-A enzyme that metabolizes serotonin. As a result
their brains were awash in serotonin. This excess serotonin is what the researchers determined was the cause for this extreme violence. Antidepressants
produce the same end result as they inhibit the metabolism of serotonin.

These are extremely dangerous drugs that should be banned as similar drugs have been banned in the past.

As a society we once thought LSD and PCP to be miracle medications with large margins of safety in humans. We have never seen drugs so similar
to LSD and PCP as these SSRI antidepressants. All of these drugs produce dreaming during periods of wakefulness. It is believed that the high serotonin levels
over stimulate the brain stem leading to a lack of muscle paralysis during sleep thus allowing the patient to act out the dreams or nightmares they are having.
The world witnessed that clearly in the Zoloft-induced murder-suicide of comedian Phil Hartman and his wife, Brynn.

Connecticut witnessed the Prozac-induced case of Kelly Silk several years ago. This young mother attacked her family with a knife, then set the house on fire
killing all but her 8 year old daughter who ran to the neighbors. As she stood bleeding and screaming for help she explained, "Help! My mommy is having a
nightmare!"


Out of the mouths of babes we will understand these nightmares for what they are. She understood that this was something her mother would do ONLY in a

nightmare, never in reality.

This is known as a REM Sleep Behavior Disorder. In the past it was known mainly as a drug withdrawal state, but the largest sleep facility in the country has
reported that 86% of the cases they are diagnosing are patients on antidepressants.

Because this was known in the past as a condition manifesting mainly in drug withdrawal you should see how dangerous the withdrawal state from these drugs
will prove to be. That is why it is so critical to make sure patients are weaned EXTREMELY slowly so as to avoid ANY chance of going into a withdrawal state.