- In a follow-up to our April 25 story about how the federal
government is able to track those who are prescribed anti-depressant controlled
drugs, we have learned that the capability to track such drug users is
far more widespread than first reported. ABC News first admitted that senior
federal sources revealed that federal records were checked to find out
about Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung Hui's history of anti-depressant use
-- the search having turned up negative results. ABC News then reversed
itself and said there was no such tracking system.
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- Under Progressive Community Treatment (PACT) laws, individuals
enrolled in mental health programs are automatically reported to authorities
when they either fail to renew their anti-depressant prescriptions or fail
to keep a mental health appointment. The first such mental health reporting
program, called the Texas Medication Algorithm Program (TMAP), was initiated
in Texas by then-Governor George W. Bush as a program to screen mental
patients for mandatory psychotropic drug use. According to our sources
in the mental health community, a private company, Comprehensive NeuroScience,
Inc., tracks mental health patients and their psychotropic drug prescriptions
and, furthermore, law enforcement has access to this data. Comprehensive
NeuroScience (CNS) is a subsidiary of Big Pharma firm Eli Lilly, a company
that has close financial links to the Bush family. As far as the federal
government reporting to ABC News that Cho had no records in their systems
concerning anti-depressant use, they failed to consider the records of
CNS, which tracks those who have prescriptions for anti-depressants. If
Cho's drugs were legally prescribed, our sources say the records would
be held by the CNS system. Patients who stop their anti-depressant drug
use often become extremely violent, a condition known as "discontinuation
syndrome."
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- A number of school shooters were later discovered to
be on legally-prescribed psychotropic drugs. Columbine High School shooter
Eric Harris was on Luvox; Springfield, Oregon high school shooter Kip Kinkle
was on Prozac; and Conyers, Georgia shooter T. J. Solomon was on Ritalin.
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- Cho would have been tracked in his anti-depressant drug
use if his prescriptions were legal.
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- http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
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