Perhaps it is the opposite. They should have been treated with some sort of medication and were not.
The opposite? EVERY SINGLE MASS SHOOTING has been committed by someone on one of these medications.
All of them.
So, when you say opposite.......
We are not doctors and we don't know if the shooters were taking the prescriptions appropriately. To be fair, we have to know if those medications have probably have helped more people that caused harm. If these medications were culprits in mass shootings and suicides to such a degree as to show a cause-effect, the FDA would have recalled them.
No, we are not doctors. Cause doctors are always trust worthy? Well, they do have white coats. They never think about ancillary benefits?
The FDA?
BILLIONS.....of dollars. Billions with a *B.*
Not saying that they have not helped people. They have probably helped many people. However, people react differently to chemical alterations. Do I need to be a doctor to say that?
Since you bring up doctors, and do not want to take my word for it, let me list some people with the ethos you are seeking.
Are Antidepressant Warnings Causing Harm?
Federal warnings about potentially dangerous and even deadly risks of antidepressant drugs may be doing more harm than good, new research suggests.
Since the FDA issued its first in a series of warnings in October 2003 about increased risk of suicidal thoughts or actions in children and teens taking antidepressants, diagnoses of new cases of depression have plunged in youths and adults, according to a study in the June 2009 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
What's more, prescriptions written for antidepressants also have dropped significantly, and these "unintended" consequences of the FDA's warnings are continuing, study researcher Robert J. Valuck, PhD, of the University of Colorado Denver's School of Medicine, tells WebMD.
"We think it's worrisome," says Valuck. "The warnings have had a chilling effect on diagnosing depression and on the choice of therapies." And that could be dangerous, he says, because the warnings have frightened parents of children with depression and kept many from seeking help.
The warnings, Valuck tells WebMD, also have given the jitters to pediatricians and other primary care doctors, who often make the diagnoses of depression in children and young adults.
Antidepressants and Suicide Risk
The FDA issued another advisory in October 2004, directing manufacturers to put a "black box" alert -- its highest warning level -- on packaging, advising parents and patients that children and adolescents who use the drugs have an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior. In February 2005, the advisory's recommendations were implemented.
The lead author of the new study, Anne M. Libby, PhD, also of the medical school in Denver, says the warning was extended to young adults 18-24 in May 2007, even though "large and significant declines in depression treatment [already had] spilled over to the adult population."
She says her team analyzed a national integrated managed care claims database covering July 1999 through June 2007, finding that new episodes of depression were found in 91,748 young people ages 5-18, 70,311 adults ages 19-24, and 630,748 people ages 25-89.
Between 1999 and 2004, the rate of diagnosed depression increased in people ages 5-18, 19-24, and 25 to 89, the study shows. But after 2004, the national rate of pediatric diagnoses "fell significantly," and declines have persisted in all age groups.
The researchers write that primary care clinicians have continued to diagnose fewer cases of depression, with a 44% lower rate of diagnosis among pediatric patients, 37% lower among young adults, and 29% among other adults.
The findings could spell danger, Valuck tells WebMD.
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Plus, the fact that no news network is even working the angle of the drugs aspect. The POSSIBLE side effects. The POSSIBLE cause of the mass psychotic episodes. I mean considering ALL OF THE incidents involve a person on one of these, you would think they would.
Yes, it is a left and right thing at the end of the day. Why? Cause a majority of the MSM does not even hint at these. They go to the cliches and use it as an opportunity to push their left wing agendas.
They have left wing agendas. Regardless of how blind a left wing loon like Jasonnfree wants to be.
