A lot of drugs have different effects for different people....
Take alcohol for instance....
Some people drink and become social and easy going and nice.
Some people drink and become morose and sad and depressed.
Some people drink and become violent angry and agitated....
What Hubris these people have who prescribe these drugs to overlook this is simple fact of life.
Drugs can affected different people differently....
Fort Hood Shooting: A Wake-up Call for Lawmakers— Investigating Psychiatric Drugs & Violence Connection is Long Overdue Says Mental Health Watchdog
Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) April 04, 2014
Violence and psychiatric drugs—a deadly formula America is becoming too intimately familiar with and, the mental health watchdog group, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) says that rather than continually send heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims, it is time for lawmakers to investigate the connection between prescription psychiatric drugs and violence.
America learned within hours of the April 2nd shooting at Ft. Hood that four people were dead (including the shooter) and 16 had been wounded in the attack. The shooter, 34-year old Army Specialist, Ivan Lopez, served in Iraq for four months in 2011 and according to The New York Times, Secretary of the Army, John McHugh, said Lopez had been “examined by a psychiatrist within the last month, but showed no signs that he might commit a violent act.” Secretary McHugh further explained to the Senate Armed Services Committee that Lopez “had been prescribed Ambien, a sleep aid, and other medication to treat anxiety and depression.”[1]
CCHR says this sounds sadly familiar to the September 2013 Washington Navy Yard attack by Aaron Alexis, who had been taking the antidepressant, Trazadone, when he killed twelve innocent people. [2]
CCHR continues that, “psychiatric treatment, in the form of prescription mind-altering drugs, once again is connected to a mass shooting. Yet, despite data showing a connection between psychiatric mind-altering drugs and violence, lawmakers have yet to investigate the connection.”[3]
“The lack of Congressional action isn’t a matter of being unaware of the connection,” states CCHR. For example, in response to the Navy Yard Shooting, U.S. Representative Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, made the connection between psychiatric drugs and Alexis’s attack almost immediately. During an interview with a Washington, D.C., Radio station, WTOP, Chairman Miller said “one of the medications that Alexis received does have a side effect that could in fact have been a problem.” At that time, Chairman Miller directed the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to save all records relating to the 34-year old Alexis. The reason for this action said Chairman Miller was to “make sure everything that could have been done was done, and that the VA does not do something to change the storyline.” [4]
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/04/prweb11735195.htm