The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

EDUCATION 311San Jose, California, police, who said she had “cannibalized”her eighty- seven-year-old mother while on Prozac.◆ In 1992, Lynnwood Drake III shot and killed six in San LuisObispo and Morro Bay, California. Prozac and Valium werefound in his system.◆ In 1993, sixteen-year- old Victor Brancaccio attacked and killedan eighty-one-year-old woman and covered her corpse with redspray-paint. He was two months into a Zoloft regimen.◆ In 1995, while on four medications, including Prozac, Dr. DeboraGreen set her Prairie Village, Missouri, home on fire, killingher children, ages six and thirteen.◆ In 1996, Kurt Danysh, eighteen, shot and killed his father seventeendays after his first dose of Prozac. He told authorities, “Ididn’t realize I did it until after it was done. . . . This might soundweird, but it felt like I had no control of what I was doing, like Iwas left there just holding a gun.”It would appear that German drug science and German psychiatryhave provided the foundation for action toward today’s schoolchildrenwho are being increasingly steered to drugs for any complaint, from trueantisocial behavior to mere daydreaming.And why hasn’t the “watchdog” media put these stories together andpresented it to the public? Direct-to- consumer pharmaceutical advertisinggrew from $791 million in 1996 to more than $3.8 billion by 2004.Those familiar with this subject claim media executives fear the loss ofadvertising revenues from the giant pharmaceutical corporations, someof the largest advertisers in the nation. Why haven’t physicians spokenout about this? Many have, but they don’t receive significant coverage inthe corporate mass media, and many more fear reprisals from both thedrug corporations and the federal government. Additionally, corporatedrugs are heavily promoted to physicians. “The pharmaceutical companiessend representatives to physicians’ offices talking about their drugs,giving free samples of their drugs, those types of things. That effort dwarfsthe [pharmaceutical corporations’] advertising expenditures,” explained