Suprise: Judges bought off by big Pharma... you trust these people too much!
It’s not that easy. I knew one of the top biochemical psychiatrists in the country back in the 1980’s. He was a high grade genius type, and his take on psychiatric drugs explains a lot.
“Neurochemistry is incredibly complex, and science is just starting to make inroads into understanding it. Drugs are a shotgun solution to bb gun problems. But people are so incredibly desperate for something, anything, that can help them, that they are more than willing to try extremely powerful drugs on just the off-chance they might help.”
The situation isn’t helped by brain individuality, which is extensive. Some people are killed by a slight concussion; whereas others have had more than half their brain removed yet not lost entirely any single function.
His estimate then was that if research continues at a breakneck pace, in somewhere between 50-200 years we might figure out the whole system. But until then, science does what it can, because the alternative is truly awful.
Now this being said, Peter R. Breggin, M.D. appears to be one of those individuals who are no longer scientists, but advocates, that no longer look to science for proof, preferring anecdote and opinion. In his case, he has embraced the same line of thinking of those who abhor vaccination against communicable disease.
It’s a numbers game. If six people out of 10,000 get a horrible effect from a life saving drug, it is a cause for concern, but not a good reason to ban it for the other 9,990.