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I'm sorry but f* lawyers!!!! This Tracy is something called a "biological psychologist"; Marks is toiler in the field, a microbiologist. Neither one of them could suscribe so much as prescription strength ibuprofen to you. They are hired guns.
"Tracy continues, "Beyond the adverse reactions listed about Luvox, one of the first clues I had that these boys were on
antidepressants was when it was made public that Eric [Harris] and Dylan Klebold had both been in anger-management
classes. Anger-management classes equal antidepressants."
Well, Christ, I hope so! Some little punk about ready to motor around in a ton or two of steel has anger problems? Damn well better get him some help! Anti-depressents are certainly in order. Luvox is not the first depressent most doctors would prescribe so these kids had probably tried other drugs before this.
Notice the citations from the PDR? Without explanation, the use of words like "Frequent" and "Infrequent" would make you think that these drugs would be taken to hopefully induce the conditions cited in the various catagories of frequency. It's sort of like inflammable being taken for the opposite of flammable. If these drugs were dangerous to a significant percentage of the population then they would not be on the market. Drugs are not a "one size fits all" proposition.
These kids needed treatment. They were wastrels devoid of values. They were processed through the Anger Management courses because to do otherwise would have opened another set of people open to litigation.
And if the doctors treating deadheads hadn't prescribed anti-depressents for the bastards then you can be sure that they would be subject to suit in that case too. Bastard lawyers!

If these drugs were dangerous to a significant percentage of the population then they would not be on the market.

The same could have been said of Thalidomide in the '50s (Thanks, Mom for flushing it down the toilet. I may not be a perfect typist, but it could have been harder to reach the keys!)

Reality Check!!! Just because a drug has been deemed safe for the masses does not mean it will not have unforseen effects. Besides, if all the school shooters had had adverse reactions leading to psychotic breaks, murder, and mayhem, the percentage of users of the drug would be statistically insignificant. Fourty shooters out of 4 million users (of a single drug) would only be .001%--not even a blip on the FDA radar....