The families of five Columbine High School shooting victims are suing the maker of the antidepressant drug one student gunman was taking when he went on a killing rampage at his high school in 1999.

            According to the Jefferson County Coroner’s office, “ A therapeutic amount of the drug Luvox was found in Eric Harris’ system after he died.”

            The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court, states, “ Solvay Pharmaceutical Inc., failed to warn Harris’ doctor about the side effects of the drug;” and further states Luvox caused Harris to become “maniac and psychotic.”

            Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and one teacher and wounded 26 other people before taking their own lives, April 20, 1999.

            Nearly 6 million children in the United States between the ages of six and 18 are taking such drugs for alleged mental illnesses- and the list of school-age children who have gone on violent rampages are growing at a disturbing rate; yet, the mental health community is reluctant to face the apparent link between such drugs and violent acts.

            In addition to Harris, 15-year-old Shawn Cooper of Notus, Idaho, and 15-year-old T.J. Soloman of Conyers, Georgia were both taking Ritalin when they open fired at their schoold; Kip Kinkel, was prescribed both Ritalin and Prozac, when he murdered both his parents and then opened fire in his school cafeteria later that day, killing two and wounding 22.

            All of these students were labeled as suffering from mental illness and were prescribed psychotropic drugs, already known to cause adverse reactions in children.

SOURCE: The Chiro Pediatric Times, December 2001,pp.1,14

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