Are chemical treatments against medical ethics?

When a doctor graduates as a doctor they take an oath to do no harm.

The GPs who prescribed and continue to prescribe antipsychotics to treat behavioural symptoms in the elderly broke that oath. The drugs reduce life expectancy in the very elderly by 50%.

The drugs were used as behavioural change agents to suppress the madness of the demented. Antipsychotics do not heal brain illness. They were prescribed for the effect which could also be achieved by a gag and a straitjacket. In fact the medication is often used knowingly in this role.

There were alternatives and only after the mass slaughter are they being considered. The primary one is acceptance and tolerance of behavioural symptoms by carers and society at large. Working in this vein doctors would be ethical but this mode of thinking is not in their frame of thought.

The drugs are dangerous chemicals. They cause illness and clearly cause death. There is limited evidence to support this in what doctors know and are taught however there is enough evidence to support the statement.

Perhaps one day there might be a magic chemical treatment which doesn't kill as it alters behaviour. But this is not a solution in my opinion.

Doctors work to subjugate and suppress madness. They call it an illness but it isn't. It is part of human behaviour and the condition we have all shared for generations.

Doctors have powerful tools available. But they lack the wisdom to see that madness may not need to be treated other than to be accepted.

Society has formed towards docility and peacefulness as a norm which I admit is a good thing. In the process though difference from this is seen as abhorrent and not tolerate. This is especially true in post-Industril Age developed world nations.

Doctors are guilty of enforcing social norms and an agenda beyond their primary remit. Many take this on gleefully ebcause it is more power to feed their power hungry complex.

But medicine is not about enforcing social order, not unless we live in the fictional reality of Orwell's 1984. It is about treating real illnesses.

There are more and more social problems which are entering the domain of medicine and psychiatry from obesity to freethinking. Sociopolitical desires are enforced using the paradigm of medicine.

Because it is dealt with by doctors there are few checks and balances. There is little oversight.

The result is many deaths and a society which is ill. Psychiatrists lack the insight to see the social problems can be resolved in other ways. They forget what they're dealing with because it isn't part of their education. They're dealing with the diverse human condition and they see extremes as illness. This is a foolishness that will be seen in the future, but in the mean time society is ill and the mad are being killed by professionals who breach their fundamental oath.