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The Pharmacology of Violence


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Citizens Commission on Human Rights exposed the violence-inducing nature of SSRI antidepressants in the early 1990s. The number of people who reported acts of violence (including murder) and violent impulses after taking the new “wonder” drugs demanded that it be made known. Such reactions are not unique to antidepressants. It would take another 13 years for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to require the manufacturers to put stonger warnings on the drugs' packaging. But because of vested interests, the pharmaceutical and psychiatric industries won't admit that these drugs possess no real benefits and plenty of risks. The makers of most psychiatric drugs actually don't know what the “therapeutic mechanism” is which supposedly makes their drugs “work.” This week's guest, Dr. James O'Donnell, has no vested interest. He has an understanding of the mechanisms of psychiatric drugs which cause mental impairment and violence and he has an interest in making this widely known, in the name of public safety.
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