Judith Warner

Pill Popping and Drug Companies: Does withdrawal drive people to acts of violence?

The shocking murder-suicide rampage of 27 year-old graduate student Steven Kazmierczak appears to have been completely out of character. Reports are that he had been a disturbed adolescent who would cut his arms' however, a year of hospitalization plus medication apprently set him on track to an apparently successful academic career and a two-year relationship with a fellow student. His girl friend when interviewed yesterday on CNN said that she he was an affectionate, positive person. The only thing out of the ordinary in the week's before the incident was that he stopped taking his meds.