The analysis in question was done in 2013, so I'd guess that it's at least 1 out of every 5 now, considering the widespread epidemic of TDS.
Caffeine?
Dave’s not here.
Lots of people these days are zombies, taking all of the above. And of those, at least 80% female.
Fake news. studies lie.
Everyone’s on drugs, everyone has STDs, everyone hates Trump.
I believe the number is higher than that.
I work with a number of people whose personalities can dramatically change from day to day. Just not normal. I know nothing about their medical history, but I feel confident in saying that on some days, they clearly do not take their medicine.
I read somewhere, and I haven’t been able to confirm this right now, but .5% experience violent behavior .
The math becomes easy.
330M population USA
1/6
55M on Psychiatric Drug
.5%
275,000 will experience violent behavior
In other words, due to the 1 in 6 Americans Taking a Psychiatric Drug, expect to see 275,000 violent acts.
“The Violence-Inducing Effects of Psychiatric Medication”
http://kellybroganmd.com/the-violence-inducing-effects-of-psychiatric-medication/
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) MedWatch system that collects adverse drug reports revealed that between 2004 and 2012, there were 14,773 reports of psychiatric drugs causing violent side eff ects including: 1,531 (10.4 percent) reports of homicidal ideation/homicide, 3,287 (22.3 percent) reports of mania and 8,219 (55.6 percent) reports of aggression.
Scientific American recently reported on a study of the antidepressants paroxetine (Paxil) and fluoxetine (Prozac) involving more than 25,000 subjects, which showed that one out of every 250 were involved in “a violent episode,” including 31 assaults and one homicide
“Homicides and assaults resulting from medication may occur in less than 1% of the population taking (or withdrawing from) particular medications. However, if ½ % of the 13% of the US adult population taking antidepressants[10] became involved in violence, this would be about 172,000 people. If 1% of that violence was deadly, 1,720 people would be affected.”
Ah ha...
if ½ % of the 13% of the US adult population taking antidepressants became involved in violence, this would be about 172,000 people. If 1% of that violence was deadly, 1,720 people would be affected.”
1,720 would be deadly
Up to 1 in 100 people will become aggressive on an antidepressant. This may lead to violent behavior.
https://rxisk.org/side-effects-of-antidepressants/
This study shows 1.0% violent rate:
“overall association between SSRIs and violent crime convictions (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.19, 95% CI 1.08–1.32, p < 0.001, absolute risk = 1.0%)”
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001875
“Psych meds linked to 90% of school shootings”
http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/psych-meds-linked-to-90-of-school-shootings/
That would explain so many Hillary and Bernie votes in the last election campaigns.
If they are all dems I’m good with that
“To improve the safety of psychiatric drugs, Moore and Mattison suggested increasing the emphasis on prescribing these medications at the lowest effective dose and continually re-assessing the need to keep individuals on the drugs.
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the real “safety” problem is that most of those drugs (in fact many other types of drugs as well) are habituating in the sense that the body always tries to reach homeostasis when subjected to chemical influences that alter its natural balance.
The result is that the body alters itself to minimize the impact of many drugs, and therefore should the drug be abruptly withdrawn, an unpleasant withdrawal effect occurs because the drug was a necessary part of the body’s drug-balanced state.
Xanax is a perfect example. If one ceases consumption of Xanax, the anxiety that it was supposed to “treat” returns much worse than before using the drug. Thus the condition the drug is supposed to treat is in effect CAUSED by the drug, which is why people who take Xanax must continue to take it or suffer severe anxiety every time they stop.
Other benzodiazepine are even worse than Xanax; in particular, Ativan (loreazepam) is highly addictive because it has such a short half-life and has to be taken several times a day to stave off the horrific rebound anxiety that occurs without the drug.
Another trap is to take a second drug to counter the side-effects of the first drug. This trap can lead to a nearly endless set of drugs.
Bottom line: stay away from as many drugs as possible unless they stave off a life-threatening condition such as hypertension, chronic asthma, pernicious anemia, hypothyroidism, bacterial infection, etc.
One in six works for the federal government. Coincidence?
I’m a psychotherapist, so my professional inclination is to help clients with “skills not pills.” That being said, I sometimes refer a client to a psychiatrist for meds. Sometimes someone needs the short-term boost that meds can provide while they continue to work with me on building skills to manage their depression/anxiety/anger. In my opinion meds become a problem when they are relied upon as a primary and long-term intervention.