Additionally 60 Minutes had a segment that exposed the fact that there “is no therapeutic effect” from these. So, in view of this and the fact that the use of these powerful mind altering drugs are implicated in virtually every one of these horrific events why is the focus not on banning these drugs?
The world wonders.
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One day in 1996, I found myself in the hospital waiting room. My 2 month old was having heart surgery on the 5th floor and my Dad was having quadruple bypass on the 8th. The next week I found myself in the middle of the grocery aisle, crying over which paper towel to buy. My doctor prescribed Zoloft and within days I was able to cope again. I truly believe that the degradation of our society has more to do with the lack of civility, distain for a “honest living” attitude and failure to accept personal responsibly than pills. Like my favorite Sister used to say. “todays youth cannot cope because they have never learned how to struggle”
“is no therapeutic effect”
That’s just not true. They’ve done scientifically randomized controlled drug trials, and had antidepressants failed we’d know it, and not just from some 60 Minutes episode.
Then again, who the heck knows what “depression” is, anyway, or if it even exists? It isn’t exactly diagnosed with scientific precision, so it’s inherently arbitrary to say whether it’s gotten better. However, antidepressants aren’t only used for depression, and have therapeutic value for a number of disorders and diseases.
You go ahead and put your stock in 60 minutes. I'll trust in the first hand results.
Because the drugs “put you out of everybody else’s misery”, that’s why.
It’s better for some to have their loved ones doped up and quiet than expressing their issues in an annoyingly vocal but healthy way.
Is your 8 year old son acting like a normal, active boy?
Give him Ritalin.
That’ll shut him up and calm him down so he’s more ‘manageable’.