Posted on 03/05/2013 12:35:05 AM PST by neverdem
With the Christopher Dorner case, the role of prescription psychotropic drugs in mass killings has again come to the forefront. Numerous articles have approached the role of so-called "psych meds" in causing depraved and indifferent violent behavior, but one in particular deserves attention because it highlights the fact that among psychiatric professionals there is no coherent understanding of what needs to be done after we take people off of drugs that are prescribed for their psychiatric illnesses.
The article -- Jon Rappoport's "Is Christopher Dorner Another Psychiatric Killer?" -- makes a number of important points about the former Los Angeles police officer's mental health. Dorner had been treated for severe depression since 2008, and Rappoport correctly proposes that the drugs Dorner was prescribed to treat his depression were almost certainly among the causes of his seeking violent revenge against members of the Los Angeles Police Department.
But there are problems with Mr. Rappoport's article that need to be addressed. Contrary to his assertion that brain chemistry is not a key to developing psychiatric illnesses, mood disorders and other psychiatric illnesses are in fact directly connected to the brain's ability to produce key neurotransmitters, including the relaxant serotonin, painkilling endorphins and enkephalins, anxiety-preventing GABA, and feel-good catecholamines such as dopamine. When the brain does not receive the necessary nutrients to enable neurons to assemble these neurotransmitters, or when other factors cause neurotransmitter production and transmission to break down, illnesses including depression, anxiety, ADHD, and bipolar illness, among many others, often result. When prescription psychotropic medications are used to treat these conditions, frontal lobe damage often ensues. Recently, the term "frontal lobe syndrome" has been brought into use to describe the effects of prolonged prescription psychotropic drug use that damages this portion of the brain and increases our propensity to act violently...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Association is not causation. "But here's the conundrum: while marijuana went from being a secret shared by a small community of hepcats and beatniks in the 1940s and '50s to a rite of passage for some 70% of youth by the turn of the century, rates of schizophrenia in the U.S. have remained flat, or possibly declined." - http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2005559,00.html
1]When they first start them
2] When dosage is adjusted up or down
3] When other medications are added
4] When other medications are subtracted
5] When a person stops taking them because he can't afford them anymore and/or he can't afford to see the doctor every month as required.
It’s not for kids. Not any more than alcohol is before the age of 20 or 21.
“I think it is more dangerous than heroin.”
Why is that? I’ve never heard of anyone OD’ing on pot or coming down with AIDS after sharing a joint or a bowl. You could say that because pot use is considered to be a “gateway” to other drugs like heroin but a pot smoker doesn’t necesarily say, “I’ve been there and done that with weed and now it’s time to move on to heroin.”. They get around to heroin whenever they get to it. Probably when they run out of ways to get prescription drugs like Oxycontin, Vicodin, Hydrocodone and Xanax.
Yep, the anti-depressants are at the root of every mass shooting. Dr. Whitacker even made it the subject of his March newsletter.
We can count on the pharma/poison vendors to do all they can to deflect this fact, but it isn’t going away.
Marijuana has been tied to manic behavior. If you are crazy, smoking dope makes you crazier. They were guys on my hall who became violent when they smoked it. Everyone else would be mellow and they would be paranoid freakouts or just plain mean.
>> “To my recollection, we have also not yet heard on the toxicology report on the Newtown Shooter and what ‘meds’ he was on.” <<
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And you most likely will not.
Looks like they plan on keeping all facts sealed ala-JFK/Warren Commission.
Thorazine? Don’t they usually give that to violent people?
>> “I wonder what psychotropic Lizzie Borden was on...” <<
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Yes, the strawman/deflection route is the way the thugs want to brush off this drug problem. No surprise.
>> “Thorazine? Don’t they usually give that to violent people?” <<
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No, thorazine was given to people they wanted to be violent.
It was the proximate cause of numerous beatings and deaths of attendants in mental hospitals.
>> “Marijuana IS associated with mental illness, especially amongst teenagers.” <<
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Looks like this thread is going to be filled with all the bullshit lies and myths that any kook can concoct, huh?
PBS:
Propaganda Bull Sh!t ministry.
>> “Marijuana has been tied to manic behavior. If you are crazy, smoking dope makes you crazier. They were guys on my hall who became violent when they smoked it. Everyone else would be mellow and they would be paranoid freakouts or just plain mean.” <<
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Much of the legend of canabis can be tied to the “angel dust” that unscrupulous vendors would add to it to give it the zing people were looking for.
Indeed - and one doesn't hear of that sort of thing being done to the legal, regulated mind-altering drug alcohol.
“If you are crazy, smoking dope makes you crazier.”
That all depends on what meaning of “crazy” is but I think you’re referring to a vast minority of smokers. Cancer patients who smoke are crazy with dread (no pun intended)but I sincerely doubt they are made crazy by cannabis.
Nah, we all smoked the same stuff.
“They”? Who are “they”? - I wasn’t violent back then OR now. - All I know was that it threw me into a deep, dark depression of the highest order; just sat and stared at the wall.
You’re lucky that you broke free of it, too many don’t ever get free.
Are you disputing the fact that marijuana use is associated with mental-illness, especially in teens?
There's no denying the association is made. It's also been associated with white women having sex with jazz musicians.
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