\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that your average person would be shocked,\u201d says Dr. Harte, \u201cespecially those who, automatically, blame guns. Those who do are more political than analytical. Guns do not kill people. Deranged people kill people. What if that derangement, that produces such violent acts, comes from those prescribed drugs, or is made worse by them?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember the Columbine High School shooting, back in 1999,\u201d says Dr. Harte. \u201cThe death toll was 13, with 20 wounded. It was widely reported that both shooters were on legally prescribed psych drugs.\u201d Dr. Harte explains, \u201cBoth of these drugs are anti-depressants in the class of SSRI\u2019s (selective serotonin uptake inhibitors.) In the Physician\u2019s Desk Reference, they carry the most serious warning, the \u2018black box warning\u2019 specifically for children and young adults, of both suicidal and homicidal ideation. In other words, potentially deadly, for the patients AND others.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Harte charges the mass media with fraud by omission. \u201cFor some time afterwards, with the news of every mass school shooting, the psychiatric medications that those shooters were on were reported, almost always these dangerous SSRI\u2019s. But no longer. But for the last several years, there seems to be a media blackout, likely from pressure from Big Pharma.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur so-called public health agencies,\u201d Dr. Harte explains, \u201chave demonstrated, over a long period, to have a blind eye to any iatrogenic, physician-caused, injuries or illnesses. You have to wonder, if they were transported back in time, 250 years ago, what they would say about blood-letting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bottom line is that children are given legally prescribed drugs, like candy, basically medicalizing childhood, driving what might just be a family problem to actual mental illness, to worsening mental illness, to senseless acts of violence emerging from those chemically-altered young minds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Harte reminds us, \u201cBack in 2022, the whole \u2018biochemical imbalance\u2019 theory of mental illness, for which these dangerous drugs were supposed to correct, was discredited. Are SSRI anti-depressants still regularly prescribed, including being prescribed for children at obvious risk? You betcha!\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Harte gets right into it: \u201cThe truth is opposite this current gun-shaming. Guns do not load themselves, point themselves, and pull the trigger. It is time to point the finger at the pediatricians and child psychiatrists, and, of course, Big Pharma, who are the root cause of this level of insane violence by children, upon children. This is a long-known danger, that no one discusses, let alone does anything about.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe beginning answer is for parents to say \u2018No!\u2019 to these drugs for their children,\u201d says Dr. Harte. \u201cThey, and the general public, needs to be shaken out of the myth that their doctor, and Medicine, in general, knows best. Much of what Medicine does is unscientific and harmful. In this case, the harm that these doctors and pharmaceutical companies cause is not limited to their unknowing patients. The dead and wounded of this and other school shootings, who may have never taken these drugs, are obvious victims not just of the shooters, but also of the unbridled, truly irresponsible medical system.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Harte reminds us all: \u201cWhen a baby is born, parents marvel at him or her as the miracle that he or she is. That baby came together, beginning as one fertilized egg. That egg replicates and replicates. Cells begin to migrate and differentiate, until, at around nine months, you have a perfectly formed human being. Yes, a miracle of nature, NOT done by medical intervention.\u201d He concludes: \u201cSo, do you think that this baby, as he or she grows, will have a deficiency of psych drugs? I think not.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the case of a child\u2019s problems, be they physical or mental, look inside, specifically to the nervous system. If there is interference to that nervous system, things can go wrong, including in the brain. Why not consider correcting those interferences, safely, rather than running to legally prescribed, but clearly dangerous drugs?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPersonally,\u201d Dr. Harte concludes, \u201cI consider making political hay upon dead children, purposely ignoring scientific fact, is despicable. For the sake of the children, it is time to challenge the established medical paradigm that has proved deadly instead of healthful and helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Don Harte, former medical student, is a principled, traditional chiropractor serving Marin and the Greater San Francisco Bay Area since 1981. He is an activist in the struggle for free speech for chiropractors. Dr. Harte was named 2006 \u201cChiropractor of the Year\u201d by the World Chiropractic Alliance (WCA). He has served on the Boards of the WCA and the Council on Chiropractic Practice. His articles have been published in OMNI magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Marin IJ, North Bay Biz, the Chiropractic Journal and the Journal of the California Chiropractic Association.<\/p>\n