Your decision to be ill informed, is yours, and yours alone. And its a shame, as you state you are a responsible parent, then why would you play russian roulette with you own child’s life, let alone shave 25 yaers off her life expectency.

If you choose not to be an informed parent, thats your choice, but, please dont intrude on the rights of other parents.

Because people disagree with you does not make them wrong. We are all here for different reasons. You don’t have to be a scientologist, for instance, to know that prescribing epilepsy meds, antipsychotics, and anti-depressants, all for bipolar disorders, makes little or no sense. As an antidepressant would not necessarily treat epilepsy or psychosis. Still, this is exactly what is going on- which brings the whole topic to question. If we were not to question such things then we are putting our faith blindly into a system that is more than willing to take advantage. If you can show me how all of those compounds are similar enough to treat the same condition I might change my mind. I’m not a scientologist but I am painfully aware of the importance/ramifications of the Black Box for some uses and not for other uses- creating a bad situation for drug makers, doctors, & consumers.

The disgruntled mental patients here are completely irresponsible, as is the legislator interfering with the doctor patient relationship. Should such a bill pass, the state should immediately be enjoined from enforcing it.

Right. And how about when the psychotropic drug just destroys the patient rather than killing him you? Here’s a WebMD self-report of the rancid Lilly drug Cymbalta:

“I have watched this drug completely destroy my husband. He was initially put on it for depression, anxiety and chronic back pain. It made him lathargic, and the pain increased and spread toother parts of his body. Now that we are trying to wan him off, the withdrawals are horrible! The suffering this man has had to endure is inhumane at the least. I don’t believe the doctors were properly educated on this terrible drug so in turn patients aren’t able to make a clear educated decision as to take this medication to begin with. I have placed a complaint with th FDA as well as with Eli Lilly. I have also placed a complaint with his doctor. I am so angry and to know that the weaning process will takes months is just unacceptable to me. Get online and type in Cymbalta withdrawal and Cymbalta side efffects and see the other hundreds of people who are suffering with little to no help from the medical field. Also, you will see the desperate attempts of some who are trying to get off this drug. There WILL be a death as a result of some of these tactics and I forsee a class action law suit in he future for Eli Lilly and any of the medical professionals who refuse to hear the cries of so many desperate people.”

There are THOUSANDS of Cymbalta self-reports floating around the web.

Should that poor guy have been counseled, warned, whatever by his physician?