(12-16-2012, 05:05 PM)turtledude23 Wrote: Have you considered that people who would be violent anyways are at higher risk of requiring psychiatric attention?
That may be true in some cases, but I don't think it's an explanation for most of these. There are many, many cases of very good people who were just depressed and had never shown any signs of violent tendencies before, suddenly become violent or commit suicide, after taking those drugs.
'Sudden, overwhelming compulsion to commit suicide or violence' is even listed on the drug insert, as possible side effects. Can you believe still take that garbage after reading that? And parents still give it to their kids?? Unbelievable but true!
And even if your theory is correct, those drugs still shouldn't be used at all, ever, period, because if even 1 person who is susceptible slips by the screening process and is given drugs they shouldn't have, innocent people suffer the consequences.
It's like the autism/vaccination debate. The vaccine-is-poison deniers say 'well not every child gets autism...only the ones who are susceptible' well, even so, the vaccines obviously cause autism in a certain segment of the population who is susceptible, and that's too high a price to pay.