FSU shooter like many other killers was on psychiatric drugs

As seen online in the Examiner

There has been a fairly detailed account emerging about Myron May, who was a lawyer and Florida State Alumnus (FSU), as the most recent in a long line of mass shooters who was under the influence of psychotropic drugs. Headlines in the syndicated press have focused on May’s alleged paranoia and deteriorating mental state.

However, May's friends have offered more detail about May’s life in the events leading up to the attack. Keith Jones, May’s former roommate, says there's more to the mental health status of May which may have been responsible for this. Jones says May was taking medications which caused paranoia at the time of the shooting.

May's old girlfriend Danielle Nixon has also said May was taking prescription drugs. Although the exact number of drugs May was taking still is not clear, according to ABC Action News there was a half-filled prescription for Hydroxyzine inside May’s apartment. This is commonly known as an antianxiety drug.

May had recently been practicing law in New Mexico when the shooting took place. He had no history of violence or self-harm until he suddently shot three people in the FSU Library. This is a characteristic story of a mass shooting by someone on psychotropic drugs wherein friends and family report they were shocked with the shooter’s uncharacteristically very violent actions.

There is a long list of mass shooters who either were on or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs at the time of their deadly attacks. There are accounts of at least 18 people who committed acts of violence when they were under the influence of psychiatric drugs. Four of these people were seeing either a psychiatrist or psychologist at the time. And this account does not include the 34 school shootings and/or school associated acts of violence that have been committed primarily by minors or teens who were taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs.

There has been a common denominator in these mass killings wherein the psychiatric drugs they were taking or withdrawing from are documented by 22 international drug regulatory warnings to actually cause mania, hostility, violence and even homicidal ideation. Furthermore, between 2004 and 2012, there have been 14,773 reports to the U.S. FDA’s MedWatch system dealing with psychiatric drugs causing violent side effects which have included 1,531 cases of homicidal ideation/homicide, 3,287 cases of mania and 8,219 cases of aggression. All along the FDA has admitted that less than 1 percent of side effects are reported to them.

This all makes it shocking that psychiatrists and psychologists continue to nevertheless prescribe these poisons daily after making cursory unscientific diagnoses of people unfortunate enough to see them as patients. Clearly, these type of unethical professionals only care about the huge profits they earn with such conveyer belt unscrupulous practices which have been made legal by careless and incompetent lawmakers and judges.