Why don't doctors and media outlets publicize the names of these volatile drugs?
It's a good questions said Dr. Gary Kohls, a Minnesota family practitioner, in an oped written after Iraq veteran Matthew Magdzas killed his pregnant wife, their 13-month-old daughter, their dogs and himself in Wisconsin in August.
"Nobody in the media has, to my knowledge, had the courage to report what the drugs were, nor have they interviewed the physician or his clinic to find out the rationale for prescribing drugs that have common violence-inducing effects (with black box warnings stating that in the prescribing information)," he writes. "Therefore nothing has been learned from this important teachable moment, probably because revealing the common reality of prescription drug-induced violence would be economically harmful for the sacred cows of Big Pharma and Big Medicine."
Still, Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. called the one of every six troops who are now on psychoactive drugs "pretty astounding and also very troubling," in Senate hearings this year and Retired Col. Bart Billings, a former Army psychologist who has also testified before Congress, says, "I feel flat out that psychiatrists are directly responsible for deaths in our military, for some of these suicides," in a March Marine Times article. "I think it's criminal, what they are doing."
Even Katie Bagosy, the wife of Marine Sgt. Tom Bagosy who took his own life in May indicts the Neurontin medication he was prescribed for his downfall.
"He told me, 'It all started to get worse when I got on this medication.' Looking back, that was the beginning of the end," she says in an article called A Prescription For Tragedy in the current National Journal.
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