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by ryanmarsh 4469 days ago
Next can we talk about SSRI's? My little brother was prescribed Paxil as an adolescent. Now he's in prison for murder. Now Paxil is not allowed to be prescribed for adolescents and children but my brother will die in prison. He behaved exactly how kids prescribed this medicine behave, in a murderous rage.
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He killed someone as an adolescent but was still tried as an adult? That's rough, man.
Wow, that's so tragic.
So long as the chemical imbalance myth is perpetuated and one in ten Americans are on anti-depressants, all SSRI prescriptions are sacrosanct. Sadly, society isn't ready to have this discussion.
True, that. Its really hard to talk down addicts from their high.
It seems the only one who can talk down the addict is the addict itself, and even then the odds aren't great.