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2025-04-15 Home Front: Politix

That's One - 49 to Go (Murder by Psychotropics)

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Posted by Mercutio 2025-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10332 views ] Top

#1 A lot of people do not take the medicine that gets prescribed for them.

So, when you hear that a killer was "on psych meds" there's a good chance that in fact the killer was not taking the medicine, or was taking it irregularly.

Just sayin

Posted by Marcus Quincey, MD 2025-04-15 02:28|| 2025-04-15 02:28|| Front Page Top

#2 And the presence or absence of drug in brain tissue at autopsy has never been studied systematically -- in killers, in non-killers, in any large groups of humans.

Nevertheless, this TN law is a start.

The unforfunate reality is that a lot of people -- young and old -- do not function safely responsibly peacefully in civil society.

That's the reality -- past, present, future.

Whether we like it or not.

Posted by Marcus Quincey, MD 2025-04-15 02:39|| 2025-04-15 02:39|| Front Page Top

#3 The truth is that you have no way of knowing anything about your child's classmates.

Your child might be seated next to a classmate who regularly fantasizes about mass murder. And might be "seeing a therapist" for it.

You would have no idea.

You are not permitted to find out.

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It has never been this way, up until recently.

Like it or not, American public schools are not safe.

Posted by Marcus Quincey, MD 2025-04-15 02:51|| 2025-04-15 02:51|| Front Page Top

#4 IMO, any shrink who prescribes Ritalin should be shot. And yes, I know that I'm talking about - I've taught math to a special class of ~~zombies~~ children on Psychotropics.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-04-15 03:51|| 2025-04-15 03:51|| Front Page Top

#5 there's a good chance that in fact the killer was not taking the medicine

Even though it's a daily maintenance drug, stopping to feel better really requires a 'stepdown' dosage.

Just sayin'

Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-15 10:58|| 2025-04-15 10:58|| Front Page Top

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