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April 20, 2013

Pulling Our Hearts out of Our Brains

While everyone blames the recent shooting sprees on access to weapons, few writers noticed how many shooters were on psych meds.

The American pharmaceutical industry makes over $300 billion a year—compared to only $12 billion for America’s allegedly “powerful” and “well financed” gun industry—so there’s a real economic disadvantage to questioning the efficacy of prescription drugs. I think celebrities avoid this topic because they are so high on their own pills, the hypocrisy would give them a bad trip. -- Taki's Magazine

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 20, 2013 2:19 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Millions, perhaps tens of millions of people, are prescribed antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs. For most people, they work well enough.

Given the histories that we know about concerning the shooters, it would be news if they hadn't been prescribed some of these drugs. The fact that among millions of patients a few who were already sick got sicker, doesn't mean a damn'd thing.

Posted by: Punditarian at April 20, 2013 5:25 PM

Antidepressant drugs don't actually help with depression. All they do is reduce the symptoms of depression, and if depression is not dealt with it will eventually drive you mad. Masking the symptoms and going on as if things are fine is a recipe for disaster.

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