They may try to prescribe these meds to ALL Americans.
Part of the “new” regulation of the ACA, you know.
I think this is actually more a case of correlation than causation.
People who kill are more likely to abuse/use drugs but it doesn’t mean the drugs make them kill.
“Finally the government has a legitimated reason to disarm all of these potential murderers.”
Yep, I think more than half of the population has used these drugs at some point
This news is giving me a lot of anxiety...
The timing of this study is HIGHLY suspect. Alcoholics get a pass!
Remember, all they have found is a correlation, and correlation does not equal causation. It could well be, for example, that they have a condition that makes them both more likely to kill and more likely to be prescribed these kinds of medications, rather than the medications being the culprit.
piss test Congress
It’s been a long time since we had an hysterical anti-depressants thread!!!
There was a warning in an article in the WSJ, at least two years ago that the Obama administration was making plans to deny second amendment rights to people who take anti-depressants or anti-anxiety medications and that the electronic medical records would make that easy to do.
it’s not that it would drive you to kill anyone... it’s just that it would reduce your inhibitions by increasing your apathy towards the death of a person
if you don’t care whether someone lives or dies... and a person gets in your face while you’re holding a steak knife... well...
From the article:
“In the new study, the researchers looked at data collected from about 960 men and women in Finland, ages 13 to 88, who were all convicted of homicide.
They then compared each person who committed homicide with 10 other people who had not committed homicide, but who were the same age and gender, and lived in the same town.
The findings showed that tranquilizers increased the risk of committing a homicide by 45 percent and antidepressant use increased the risk by 31 percent.
But the researchers were surprised to find that the use of anti-inflammatory pain relievers was tied to an increase of more than 200 percent in the risk of committing homicide. Opioid pain relievers elevated risk by 92 percent, Tiihonen said.
The researchers speculate that tranquilizers may weaken people’s impulse control. Other studies have suggested that using certain painkillers may dull processes responsible for processing emotions.
The study is published in the journal World Psychology.”
Maybe these people would have killed MORE people if they had not been on these meds.
Obama, by decree, is using the FBI to classify “mentally ill” people via visits to shrinks and/or drug use, in order to keep them from gun ownership.
This “study’ means anyone with a history pain killers or anxiety meds can be classified as homicidal and therefore mentally unfit to have second amendment rights.
Cute, huh? We will be seeing a lot more of this abuse.
I also read on Drudge that the FBI is conducting a new study on internet “terrorism.” It has lumped “right wing internet groups” with Islamic terrorists on the internet to target dangerous individuals who “incite violence.”
The hatred and persecution of their political enemies runs deep with this mob in power. They are communists or fascists in transition - not sure which - but they are anti-American big time. They should be ashamed of themselves but Leftists know no shame. See the Soviet Union, Cuba, Viet Nam, North Korea and China for the content of character among the government people involved here.
They know darn well leftists are violent - actually orchestrating riots (paying rioters) and inspiring the murder of cops and the murder of white people. It’s all just left wing radical political abuse and pure hate. Hate rots one’s guts so they will pay the natural and spiritual consequences of what they host inside of themselves.
Just for a review: Homeland inSecurity and the DOD has named Vets, Tea Party organizations, constitution supporters, Ron Paul voters/third party voters/libertarians, the State of Texas, etc. terrorists. Obviously they have added Harley rider clubs to the mix.
So now someone who has been a decent, law abiding, gun owning citizen, who ends up with cancer, and starts taking pain relievers and anti anxiety Rx is going to get put on the anti-gunners hit list. Worse, there are FReepers falling for this bs.
Another thread where the prescription addicts get together to pretend they are superior to run of the mill junkies.
Anti-inflammatories (aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, et. al.) increase the tendency to commit homicide by 200%.
Yeah, right.
How long before that becomes an excuse for murder?
Benzos can be very bad news. I had a high-stress job where I was throwing up from stress every day when I knew a higher-up would be coming through and nothing was ever good enough.
Doctor gave me some Xanax, which cured my throwing up, but also put holes in my memory like a shotgun going off.
Dropped the job with the insane narcissist and then doctor with the pills and feel much much better.
All you need to know about this bogus “science” is that taking ibuprofen increased the chances of committing homicide by 200%.