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The Antipsychotic Prescribed To Adam Lanza Has A Troubled History All Its Own
December 24, 2012
Geoffrey Ingersoll
By now the whole country is fully
embroiled in the Gun Control debate, spurred by the grisly murder of 27
people, mostly kids, at the Sandy Hook Elementary school last Friday.
Guns might not be the only problem though.
New York Magazine wrote a piece
about shooter Adam Lanza’s supposed “aspergers” syndrome as a “red
herring” meant to distract from the real problem (guns, of course, the
subject goes without mentioning).
Inside the piece though they report Adam Lanza’s uncle said the boy was prescribed Fanapt, a controversial anti-psychotic medicine.
UPDATE: Since the publishing of this article, New York Daily News has removed the reference, the originator of the quote from Lanza’s “uncle,” because they believed him to be an “imposter.”
Fanapt was the subject of a Bloomberg report when it passed regulators, after previously getting the “nonapproval” stamp. Why wasn’t it approved, you might ask?
There are many reasons, some of which have to do with competing entities in a competitive market.
The main cited reason for the rejection was that it caused severe heart problems in enough patients to cause a stir.
Maybe more importantly, though, Fanapt
is one of a many drugs the FDA pumped out with an ability to exact the
opposite desired effect on people: that is, you know, inducing rather than inhibiting psychosis and aggressive behavior.
From Drugs.com, side effects of the drug Fanapt:
Psychiatric
Psychiatric side effects including restlessness, aggression, and delusion have been reported frequently. Hostility, decreased libido, paranoia, anorgasmia, confusional state, mania, catatonia, mood swings, panic attack, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa, delirium, polydipsia psychogenic, impulse-control disorder, and major depression have been reported infrequently.
In fact, Fanapt was
dropped by its first producer, picked up by another, initially rejected
by the FDA, then later picked up and mass produced. The adverse
side-effect is said to be “infrequent,” but still it exists, and can’t be ignored.
The reaction invoked by the drug in some people is reminiscent of the Jeffrey R. MacDonald case, where a Green Beret slaughtered his entire family and then fabricated a story about a marauding troop of “hopped up hippies”.
MacDonald though, had Eskatrol in his
system, a weight-loss amphetamine that’s since been banned in part for
its side effects of psychotic behavior and aggression.
These drugs are not the only ones that
can cause the opposite of their desired effect. Several anti-depressant
medications are also restricted to adults, for the depression they
inspire in kids rather than eliminate.
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