Have you read some of the side effects of those meds? YIKES!
Don’t know which is better to be on them or not.
I think the meds are given to the patient as an alternative to not being locked up.
It's a gruesome decision to take away someone's freedom. But the world would be better off if Mr. Holmes had been sedated and hugging a rock in some nice, quiet, supervised place...
We've been warned in this thread not to jump on the doc. We've been reminded that mental illness can be difficult to treat. But in most cases, meds do nothing except create problems when they are skipped. The treatment of mental illness requires professional counseling for thought process modification. The meds are mostly a tool to get over some immediate hurdles and get to the counseling. Meds without a plan (e.g. counseling) do nothing.
The facts in this case are not all known, but we do know that the doc failed. We also know that the perp had considerable higher level education and that failed to teach any morals. It is possible the parents knew their kid was a time bomb and sent him to college rather than deal with it. it is also possible that nobody could have done anything, not the parents, not the school as a whole, not the doc. But how likely is that really?