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Neighbor says Lanza was on meds, links between SSRIs and violence

Neighbor says Lanza was on meds, links between SSRIs and violence.

As the world continues to search for answers to the senseless violence and police say they are leaving no stone unturned, reports surface on the links between certain psychiatric medications and homicidal violence.

The Washington Post has reported that a neighbor of Adam Lanza, the suspected shooter in the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings, said that Lanza was on some form of medication. Police have issued search warrants to determine if Lanza was being treated with any drugs prescribed for mental illness.

Police have said that so far a search of the Lanza home has turned up no such medications. The shootings take place as warnings grow louder within the medical profession of dangerous and possibly violent side effects of a class of psychiatric drugs known as SSRIs, "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors." One study from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices has identified 31 drugs that are disproportionately linked with violent behavior.

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60 Minutes has interviewed friends of Adam Lanza's mother, Mark and Louise Tambascio. Ms. Tambascio also suggested that Adam Lanza was on psychiatric medication. She told CBS reporter Scott Pelley “I know [Adam Lanza] was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn’t deal with the school classes sometimes,” The comment came after Mark Tambascio told Pelley that “friends told us that [Asperger's syndrome] did dominate the Lanzas’ lives.” READ MORE AT DIGITAL JOURNAL ... Neighbor says Lanza was on meds, links between SSRIs and violence