That question may be answered soon.
Tennessee just adopted a new law, HB 1349 and SB 1146, mandating that mass murderers who kill at least four people must be autopsied, with an eye toward finding out exactly what psychotropic drugs were swimming around in their systems before they opened fire.
In effect, the law stops such information from being hidden behind the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), which protected even the medical privacy of mass murderers until now in Tennessee.
“Research has linked violence toward others with 11 different antidepressants.”
The new law also stipulates that the killer’s “mental health providers” will be consulted, that the University of Tennessee will study psychotropic drugs and other substances in the killer’s blood and that this crucial information will be provided to the public by request.
Sheila Matthews, co-founder of AbleChild, a group advocating for informed consent and the right to refuse psychiatric drugs, said: “The truth belongs to the living. No industry should be allowed to hide behind HIPAA when lives are at stake.”
Passage of the bill strongly hints at a positive and seismic shift in awareness about the dangers of psychiatric drugs and their ability to set off extreme violent reactions resulting in deadly tragedy.
Wyoming legislators are looking at adopting similar legislation.
“There’s no time in American history or human history that kids were going to schools and shooting their classmates,” said Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “It really started happening conterminous with the introduction of these drugs—with Prozac and the other drugs.”
One example is Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who murdered six people—three children and three adults—in 2023 in Nashville. From the age of six, Hale, 28, had been under psychiatric treatment and prescribed various psychotropic drugs, including Lorazepam, Buspirone, Lexapro, Hydroxyzine and Prozac.
There are many such examples.
“Sadly, the mental health industry believes that throwing chemicals at the brain will make the patient ‘better,’ despite being fully aware that the known possible side effects are deadly serious,” AbleChild wrote. “If the public was to get its hands on Hale’s complete mental health/psychiatric drug record, it would make the angels weep.”
In 2023, a six-year-old child shot and nearly killed a teacher at Richneck Elementary in Newport News, Virginia. The child was taking at least one psychotropic drug prescribed for ADHD.
Mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) stated: “Since 2000, there have been at least 27 acts of mass violence in schools committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs or having undergone unnamed mental health treatment, resulting in 33 deaths and 83 wounded. At least seven of the killings involved stabbings. Something drove them to kill.”
“This is about preventing the next tragedy. Ignoring the role of experimental psychotropic drugs helps no one.”
Indeed, CCHR notes that psychotropic drugs can result in “debilitating withdrawal effects” that are “documented to include violent and suicidal behavior.”
In February, the White House signed Executive Order 14212, instructing a new commission to “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin uptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants and weight-loss drugs.”
The psychiatric lobby objected—violently.
“Research has linked violence toward others with 11 different antidepressants,” Dr. Gretchen LeFever Watson, clinical psychologist, wrote. “Antidepressants double the risk of violence and suicide. Why would people be afraid of more research?”
Money, of course. Big, big money. It is estimated that the revenue from drugs prescribed to “treat” ADHD was $14.3 billion in 2023. By 2030, it is expected to reach $18.6 billion.
“This law isn’t just about Tennessee. It’s a blueprint for dismantling the wall of secrecy protecting industries that profit from ignorance,” AbleChild’s co-founder said. “When someone commits mass murder, the public has a right to know if mind-altering drugs played a role.”
Amy Miller, former director of a program called Reform Pharma, helped draft the Tennessee legislation and emphasized its broader mission: “This is about preventing the next tragedy. Ignoring the role of experimental psychotropic drugs helps no one—except corporations profiting from the status quo.”
“The law amends Tennessee codes to prioritize transparency over privacy in cases of mass violence, directly challenging pharmaceutical and behavioral health industries to confront potential links between their products and practices and public safety risks,” AbleChild wrote. The bill helps “ensur[e] public access to critical drug histories, expose conflicts of interest between mental health organizations and pharmaceutical funding and combat off-label prescribing and unsafe psychotropic drug use in vulnerable populations, including children in foster care.”
All of which begs the question: Who says our kids have “mental illnesses” like ADHD?
Who says ADHD even exists?
And who says that any of these drugs “cure” it?
Psychiatry operates in a fantasy world, but bullets are very real.
