Writes Greg Privette:

Lew,

This weekend I read the Brian Wilson article “The Missing Link” posted on LRC. It recounts a long list of otherwise “unexplainable” killings primarily by teenagers, often killing their parents. I have seen similar lists before that point out in nearly all, if not all, of these cases the youth have been doped up with highly recommended prescription drugs.

Many writers on LRC have written about Americans being brainwashed into believing in rule by “experts”. The vast number of people who believe we should accept a lower standard of living to combat “global warming” is a great example of this. However, I think the mass drugging of children may be one of the greatest threats to our future. I believe we are just beginning to see the effects of people being on these drugs for years starting at increasingly young ages. How can any “expert” possibly know the effects of taking these drugs for 20 or 30 years? And in many cases mixing more than one. Two of the incidents listed in his article stood out as great examples of parents being willing to accept the opinions of experts while making life altering decisions about their children’s futures:

• Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on Paxil when she hung herself from a hook in her closet. Kara’s parents said “…. the damn doctor wouldn’t take her off it and I asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil…”)
• Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on Paxil when he committed suicide in 2002, (Gareth’s father could not accept his son’s death and killed himself.)

“the damn doctor wouldn’t take her off it”. Really? So the parents, even seeing it was causing problems for their daughter, had no say in this? If you aren’t lying unconscious being intravenously drugged, how does a doctor take you off medication? Did the doctor force them to fill the prescriptions and then force them to feed the drugs to their daughter? No. The parents in this case simply deferred to the opinions of “expert” doctor rather than believing what they were seeing with their own eyes and trusting their own judgement.

I think the difference between the two tragic events listed above are in the first case the parents are still in denial about their responsibility for letting this be done to their daughter. I think the father in the second event must have realized that ultimately he was responsible for letting this be done to his son and not recognizing what it was doing to him.