ORIGIN OF MODERN PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
The roots of psychopharmacology as a scientific discipline
can be traced to the late 19th century when drug
treatments such as lithium were used for inmates of insane
asylums, though the mechanisms of both the illnesses and
the drugs being used to treat them remained poorly understood.
In the early 20th century, experimental testing of
the scientific basis of psychoactive effects of drugs with
opioid alkaloids led to coining of the term psychopharmacology.
1 This period also witnessed many attempts to treat
depressed patients by using psychoactive substances. As
only marginal success was seen with stimulants and
chemical shock treatments, electroconvulsive therapy remained
the treatment of choice for depressed patients
throughout the first half of the 20th century. It was not until
the 1950s that major breakthroughs in psychopharmacology
occurred (Figure 1).

The molecular manipulation of antihistamines led to the
first important breakthrough: synthesis of phenothiazines
by Charpentier at Rhone-Poulenc and the development of
chlorpromazine as an antipsychotic agent.2 Chlorpromazine
was found to exert potent tranquilizing effects and relieve
symptoms such as aggression and hallucinations. Researchers
in molecular chemistry took great interest in the
development of chlorpromazine and began to systematically
alter the structure of antihistamines and other psychoactive
agents in the search for potential therapies. Despite
these systematic efforts, serendipity played a large role in
the discovery of the first modern antidepressant agents.

Recent article about the shoting in Omaha, Nebraska

Infowars.net | December 7 , 2007
Steve Watson

Robert Hawkins, the 19 year old who killed himself and eight other people with an assault rifle last night in Omaha, Nebraska had a history of treatment with psychiatric drugs for depression and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and was on prozac according to press reports .

Of course the headlines will once again focus on how evil and dangerous guns are, how the second amendment should be reevaluated and will once again ignore the fact that this young man was subject to dangerous brain altering chemicals for a number of years prior to this tragic incident.

Hawkins is the latest in a long line of shooters all of which were on prescribed antidepressants before they suddenly snapped and decided to kill as many people as they could before taking their own lives.

Investigators believe that Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia Tech murderer, had been taking anti-depressant medication at some point before the shootings last April, according to The Chicago Tribune .

Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, as well as 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, the Oregon killer who gunned down his parents and classmates, were all on psychotropic drugs.

Jeff Weise, the Red Lake High School killer was on prozac , "Unabomber" Ted Kaczinski, Michael McDermott, John Hinckley, Jr., Byran Uyesugi, Mark David Chapman and Charles Carl Roberts IV, the Amish school killer, were all on SSRI psychotropic drugs.

Antidepressant drugs have never been tested on children nor approved by the FDA for use on children, however, Scientific studies proving that prozac encourages suicidal tendencies in young people are voluminous and span back nearly a decade.

In 2005, it was revealed that Eli Lilly had full knowledge of a 1200% increase in suicide risk for takers of their Prozac. This evidence came in the wake of findings published in the British Medical Journal a year previously.

In 2006 a report was published outlining the fact that anti-depressant drug Paxil doubles the risk of violent behavior . Another study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry revealed that teens taking antidepressant drugs are more likely to commit suicide.

However, prescriptions of antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs among schoolchildren has more than quadrupled in that time, while use of behaviour-altering drugs, including Ritalin, for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Modafinil, for daytime sleepiness, has soared ten-fold.

It is a well known fact among the makers of these drugs that they are directly linked to behavioural disturbances including agitation, panic attacks and extreme aggression, yet their use is so commonplace that they have now even found their way into our drinking water .

Since these deadly drugs are prevalent in almost all mass shooting incidents, where is the call to ban prozac? Where is the investigation into these drugs and the big pharma corporations that are pushing them and gaining record profits? Why is the knee-jerk reaction always to attack the 2nd Amendment rights of Americans to self-defense, a right that was exercised in January 2002 when students subdued a shooter at another Virginia university before he could kill more than three people because they were allowed guns on campus?