Why would you protest in front of the pharmaceutical companies?
The company does not prescribe the drug to the patient, nor do they monitor the patient while on the drugs...
Drug prescribing and dosing for various mental illnesses is tricky—parents and physicians need to be vigilant in monitoring patient to make sure patient is responding positively with necessary adjustments to prescriptions as needed.
Properly prescribed and dosed, they can allow normalcy for people with mental illness.
In the case of the Florida shooter, it was stated he was in a facility at one point and a relative said he was on a prescription drug at some point. IMHO it would be interesting to see a report of a drugs in his system at arrest, etc. analysis and find out if he actually had been taking his meds...
Having worked at a rehab facility where one of my clients was a woman who was a paranoid schizophrenic who shot her husband, I can say from personal experience that she was Jekyll/Hyde...she was reasonable/docile as could be AS LONG AS SHE WAS ON HER MEDS...but when she did not take them, she “snapped” as she would described it and became a very scary lady...
Mental health is clearly a problem in all these cases, but I am not sure pharma company culpability isn’t somewhat misplaced.
(I don’t own any pharma stock nor do I work for a pharma company.)
Glaxo was CRIMINALLY prosecuted for off label marketing of Paxil to children and paid a 3 Billion (with a B) dollar fine but no one was jailed.
Manufacturers still encourage and incentivize doctors to prescribe this poison shit to every kid that fidgets or is bummed he didn’t get a date.