Kirstie Alley criticized for speaking out against psychiatric drugs: ‘This tweet smells like Scientology’

Kirstie Alley is defending her faith in Scientology — and its stance on what she calls “psychiatric abuses” — after her tweet linking psychiatric drugs to the latest round of mass shootings got pushback online.

The Cheers actress, who has been a member of the Church of Scientology since 1979 and credits it with helping her overcome a cocaine addiction, shared a report titled “Psychiatric Drugs Create Suicide & Violence” on Twitter, which blames such medication for “self-harm” and “homicidal ideation.”

Alley first shared the report after Roseanne Barr posted a YouTube video in which her son, Jake Pentland, vented about the reaction to the El Paso and Dayton shootings and accused the media of overlooking the impact of psychotropic drugs.

“I’m tired of people thinking it’s guns or that someone posted on f****** 8chan and likes anime, or maybe they’re bullied,” he said. “Everybody’s looking at the wrong f****** s*** and I’m tired of it. Nobody f****** wants to talk about the fact that somewhere between 90 and 95 percent of these shooters are on psychotropic medication.”

While experts tell The Poynter Institute’s fact-checking arm Poltifact that there is “no scientific basis” for Pentland’s “unproven” claim about mass shooters and prescription drugs — which he insists in his video is not a “conspiracy theory” — Alley is among those who feel otherwise.

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