What causes extreme violence?
A reader asks about an epidemic of extreme violence among youth and what might be some of the causes of this kind of violence.
The cause of extreme violence is almost always early-stage alcohol or other-drug addiction.
I discussed this issue in the May edition of my online www.AddictionReport.com. In the top story, on mass murderer Cho, I used columnist Bob Unruh's misplaced blame on anti-depressants as a classic example of failing to identify the source the problem. I wrote: "he misses the boat in omitting the fact that of 20 school shooters listed in his article, at least eight were heavy alcohol users (i.e., alcoholics--and not mentioned by him) or on Xanax or Valium (alcohol in pill form for the alcoholic). ...
