School Shootings and What Psychiatrists Can Do to Prevent Them

By Ronald Pies, MD | January 1, 2007

Dr Pies is clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts University in Boston. His most recent books include Creeping Thyme, a collection of poetry (Brandywine Publishers); Zimmerman's Tefillin, a short story collection (PublishAmerica); and Handbook of Essential Psychopharmacology, 2nd edition (American Psychiatric Publishing).

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3. Swartz MS, Swanson JW, Hiday VA, et al. Violence and severe mental illness: the effects of substance abuse and nonadherence to medication. Am J Psychiatry. 1998;155:226-231.

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