http://www.stopshrinks.org/reading_room/drugs/dark_side_1.htm
Read it all. In case you are too lazy:
Killers on psychiatric drugs
Another article published in the American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry described five cases of extreme acts of physical violence caused by Haldol. In the first, a 23-year-old male with a history of developing severe symptoms of akathisia after being given Haldol was injected with the drug in the admissions room of a psychiatric unit.
After the injection, the man escaped, ran to a park, disrobed, and tried to rape a woman. "When pulled off by the husband, he proceeded down the street, broke down the front door of a house where an 81-yearold lady was sleeping. He severely beat her with his fists, 'to a pulp,' by his own description, following which he found knives and stabbed her repeatedly, resulting in her death." He then ran into another woman who was with her child and "repeatedly stabbed the woman in front of the child, where upon he moved on to he next person he encountered, a woman whom he severely assaulted and stabbed to the extent that an eye was lost and an opening into the anus was created resulting in major surgery."
The report describes four other cases of violence attributed to akathisia caused by Haldol. One was a suicide. Another was a suicide attempt in which a man stabbed himself repeatedly and later remarked that "he could never even feel the knife when stabbing himself." The third was a man who beat his mother to death with a hammer.
In the fourth case, a man "had been receiving Haldol as an outpatient for approximately four months and described how progressively his head was rushing, that he felt speeded up, that he was in great pain in his head and had an impulse to stab someone to try to get rid of the pain. He went to the nearby grocery store he frequented on a regular basis and impulsively and repeatedly stabbed the grocer whom he had known for some time."
Many similar acts of violence have been linked with these psychiatric drugs. One example is the 1989 case of David Peterson, who walked out of a mental institution in Middletown, Conn., bought a hunting knife, and then stabbed a nine-year-old girl 34 times, killing her. Peterson said he killed the girl to get back at his psychiatrist for not changing the drug he was being given, a major tranquilizer, that was causing him "pain."
I already read it when posted last time.
None of these people were on Haloperidol for any length of time (save one MAYBEE) let alone alone months, were on a combination of drugs not just Haloperidol and were not given the idela dosages of 50-100MG.
None of these people were sucessfully treated using Haloperidol and then released.
The first example featured someone with a history of mental problems who was having a psychotic episode being given an unspecified dosage of Haloperidol in combination with who knws what else and supposedly this made him even more agitated.
What is this supposed to prove? It certianly doesn't prove that someone on 100MG or more of Haloperidol for months is likely to suddenly become violent out of the blue and to kill.
The second example involved a man who was given a low dose along with other drugs.
He had been getting progressively worse for days and presuamly would have killed someone including possibly himself anyway. There is no evidence the drugs caused him to resort to violence as opposed to failing to stop him from doing what he would have done anyway.
Sheila was given a large dose and did not respond by killing herself. She responded well to treatment so that after 5 weeks she was released. That some people kill themselves before they can be successfully treated has little bearing on whether someone who responds well to treatment would be likely to kill anyone.
Case 3 is little better.
A person with a history of violence who was on several drugs not just low dose Haloperidol and like the drugs before the low does Haloperidol failed to help him so he ended up killing himself.
Case 4
A man who threatened to kill his mother in the past actually did it. He had a psychotic episode, was quickly released after receiving low dose Haloperidol and it failed to stop him from having delusions and he then killed his mother.
Case 5
Claims he was on Haloperidol for months but doesn't reveal the dosage or how and whether he was actually making his medicaiton. He had a whole series of problem and history of crime. He claied Haldol made him stab someone but where is the evidence? Just claiming it in court to try to get off doesn't mean squat.
Identify a case where someone on 50-100MG of Haldol after being successfully treated relapsed and killed anyone other than if they stopped taking their medication or were high on narcotics or alcohol at th etime.
Cases where someone was already agitated treated 1-2 times with a low does among other drugs and it failed to help doesn't cut it.
Nor does some unspecified case that claims there was treatement for several months but no mention of dose, other drugs and whether the person stopped taking their medication periodically.
Sheila had no history of violence, had relapses in the past while high and or off her medicaiton (still without resorting to violence even at these times) and had been successfully treated for months and she was only ONLY 100MG of Haldol not any other counter drug at the time of the murders. Try to find examples of someone in similar circumstances who did not stop taking their medication, and wa snot high on drugs or alcohol who resorted to murder or attempted murder and it was attributed to the Haldol or in spite of the Haldol by the medical personnel in the case.
