Psychiatric Drugs Causing Violence

Psychiatric Drugs Causing Violence

A NYC police officer shot up his girlfriend's apartment while on anti
depressants. (TATIANA DELIGIANNAKIS, ALEX GINSBERG and HASANI GITTENS, "'SHOOT'
COP OFF MEDS," New York Post, July 25, 2006) The New York Post reports that he
stopped taking his medication. Journalists and police officers remain unaware of
the causal connection between this family of drugs and violence.

--
Roy Bercaw, Editor
ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA

'SHOOT' COP OFF MEDS
New York Post
By TATIANA DELIGIANNAKIS, ALEX GINSBERG and HASANI GITTENS

July 25, 2006 -- A depressed cop who, while off his medication, pumped 11
bullets into his girlfriend's apartment door in Brooklyn told arresting officers
that he did it because he caught her cheating on him, sources said yesterday.

Joel Rodriguez, who has worked as a cop for two years at the 90th Precinct in
Williamsburg, had just recently stopped taking an antidepressant drug when he
went to Elizabeth Ortiz's Kent Avenue apartment in a jealous rage Sunday,
sources said.
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