But giving mentally ill people psychotropic meds is only going to make things worse.
So all psychotropic medications make everything worse? You want to make sure mentally ill people never take medications? No more antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics for anyone! Mood stabilizers for people with bipolar? How absurd!
Little Jimmy just has to say he has trouble focusing on homework (who fucking doesn't?) and he can hop on board the meds train. Let's hope he doesn't have a family history of schizophrenia
The article is blaming SSRIs, not stimulants. The paper never mentions how long they were on these medications, the doses or other underlying factors that could've participated in these incidences. The article is saying, "oh hey, look, they mentioned they were on this drug and they did this. OBVIOUSLY IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE DRUGS!!!" No, the paper is prematurely blaming the medications without looking at any other factors. There is no background or depth or any relevant information to any case because "person x was on x and killed x people." Yes, there is an increased risk of suicide and violent behavior when kids are put on these medications, but what about their earlier history of suicide and violent behavior or other participating factors? Let's not forget that roughly 30,000,000 Americans are on these medications and many more in Europe and around the world, too.
Also, the article also goes out of its way to blatantly lie, stating:
"that SSRI drugs ( Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors ) have well known, but unreported side effects, including but not limited to suicide and other violent behavior." Unreported? These medications have some of the most famous black-box warnings there are. Yes, kids that go on these medications have a higher risk of suicide of violent behavior. Patients starting these medications, increasing doses or switching medications need to be properly monitored and evaluated for the first 4 weeks and periodically thereafter. At the earliest sign of these abnormal behaviors or if the medication is not therapeutic, then switch them off.
The article is incredibly narrow-minded and biased. You think a website called Ammoland for grass-roots guns rights is interested in deflecting the blame of school shootings from guns to drugs? Maybe if all these psychotic kids didn't have access to guns or other weapons, the issue would take care of itself.
