Teen Idolized Columbine killers

[Gman]

Psychotropic drugs are a lot of "what's changed".

We also don't keep the seriously mentally ill off the streets these days.

[MED]

Psychotropic drugs are a lot of "what's changed".

We also don't keep the seriously mentally ill off the streets these days.

This is pretty much how I feel about it.

[rbeau30]

Psychotropic drugs are a lot of "what's changed".

We also don't keep the seriously mentally ill off the streets these days.

Nowadays we give the seriously mentally ill a bunch of pills, and leave it up to the seriously ill person to make sure he/she takes them.

[SamuraiCO]

Nowadays we give the seriously mentally ill a bunch of pills, and leave it up to the seriously ill person to make sure he/she takes them.

As a pharmacist I can not argue. The SSRI's (Zoloft, Paxil, etc) were touted early on so effective that general MD's could prescribe. There was a lot of education put out for providers to help them identify their patients who might need an SSRI. What was seriously missing was pallative care that is provided by mental health professionals.

I also find it amazing whole generations of children were raised w/o ADD/ADHD meds.

But we all really know it was the evil black rifle wispering into his ear.

[MED]

Nowadays we give the seriously mentally ill a bunch of pills, and leave it up to the seriously ill person to make sure he/she takes them.

I feel as though a lot of the shit given to kids is poison and completely fucks with their head. It's insane that these drugs like Ritalin are used to control unwanted behavior; God forbid that we work with their excitement or distraction; nope, lets just drug them so we can make the problem go away...at least until they snap and go off the deep end.