[Alaska Wolf]

the original poster asserted that drugs could NEVER cause someone to be a killer.

As far as I know, there has never been a drug made that will turn people into killers. Only seething rage and hatred could cause the premeditated slaughter of six and seven year old children in a school classroom.

[cidrasm]

As far as I know, there has never been a drug made that will turn people into killers. Only seething rage and hatred could cause the premeditated slaughter of six and seven year old children in a school classroom.

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Drugs that alter brain chemistry, like SSRIs do not by themselves turn a person into a killer, they can remove inhibitions (like alcohol) that normally prevent people acting upon extreme emotions.

You just mentioned a couple things, rage and hatred, that are extremely potent emotions that are normally held in check in most people. Now remove the inhibition on acting upon those emotions via a drug that is actually designed to do that (for different reasons, usually involving depression)

So, you can insist that drugs cannot turn a person into a killer if you wish, but it’s fairly easy to do google searches for drugs that have done what I just wrote above. They exist and people are on them.