Maybe Rethink a Lot of Things

To Stop Mass School Shootings, Rethink Antidepressants

But if you want to get at the real cause of these horrific events, don't ignore the potential impact of a type of antidepressant medication that should probably not be given to teenagers at all, and has been associated with an increase in the type of violence seen at Columbine, Newtown, Aurora and — perhaps — at Parkland, Florida.

These and similar attacks have a common pair of elements: The assailants were all late adolescents or young adults, and they were all taking a particular type of antidepressant called an SSRI.