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Plus, because of a cocktail of vicious side-effects, anti-psychotics almost triple a person’s risk of dying prematurely.

Ah, but tripled from what baseline? that of a typical "healthy" person of the same age and gender or that of an unmedicated person with the same psychosis? (ses?).

If the question came down to "you are a clear danger to yourself and the community. We can sequester you in a hospital or, with the use of anti-psychotics, can let you rejoin society but you might die sooner," which do you choose? That's a whole different kettle of fish. I don't see the article being clear on that.

"What? time for another pill? just a second while I post this ..."

Later, FRiends :)

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well, it would seem one would have to add some version of, the psychiatric establishment, underpinned by the pharmaceutical industry, has glossed over studies showing that anti-psychotics cause extensive damage, the most startling being permanent brain atrophy to that question for a truely informed consent to be obtained.