s. According
to a study done by president Clinton after the Columbine shooting, six million
children in the us between the ages of six and eight-teen are on mind altering drugs
prescribed for mental illness (Grapes 91). The most popular of these types of
psychiatric drugs are Ritalin, Luvox and Prozac. At the time of the Columbine
shooting Eric Harris eight-teen had been under the influence of Luvox along with
and antidepressant to control obsessive-compulsive disorder. Oddly enough four
days prior to that shooting Shawn Cooper, a fifth-teen year old sophomore at
Notrus Junior High in Idaho was taking Ritilan for a bipolar disorder when opening
two shotgun rounds nearly killings students and staff. Within the past year five
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