All of these school shooting's (a new phenomenon in recent years) perpetrators have been on SSRI's and other psychiatric medications.
It seems to me that there is really something going on with the "opiate crisis", demonizing opiates while these other "alternatives" are WAY worse. Let's look at benzodiazepines alone, something that I also have to use a very low daily dose of -1mg clonazepam.
I went for a few days without the 1mg clonazepam and was out of my freaking mind. The withdrawal from those was WAY worse than withdrawal from morphine.
Look at this article I found here:
arrests and sudden deaths of combat veterans. Known by soldiers as “Serokill,” it is often prescribed to treat insomnia, an indication for which it is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Not that another brand of antipsychotic would be preferable—a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that all drugs in this class double the risk of sudden cardiac arrest.
And when these drugs are given to large numbers of military personnel, what begins as a risk can lead to wide-scale tragedy. According to investigations by neurologist Dr. Fred Baughman, Jr., as many as 351 soldiers have died from cardiac arrest after ingesting drug cocktails containing antipsychotics and antidepressants. This phenomena is no coincidence when contrasted to a 2004 study that found only 59 non-traumatic cardiac deaths related to exercising among U.S. military recruits from 1997 to 2001.
Yet with unexplained deaths seemingly at every turn, psychiatrists continue to prescribe antipsychotics such as Seroquel in record numbers. Between 2001 and 2011, the U.S. Veterans Administration and the Defense Department spent more than $850 million on Seroquel, yet another huge profit center for the psycho-pharmaceutical industry at the expense of active-duty troops and vets." -
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So yeah Squeaky, these other medications are way worse and more dangerous. I don't want to be a zombie or chemically lobotomy,
I just need to manage severe, irretractable, chronic pain. I think I will stick with what I have got. Although I need to talk to my doctor about a possible dose increase after 10-11 years of being on the same dosage of MS Contin. It has worked great up until recently, considering the crippling level of pain I am in.