The weapon in the crime is primarily the antipsychotic. Proof exists of the mass slaughter of the mentally ill using these drugs in the UK at the turn of the millenium.
1,800 every year were killed. This was the estimate of the number of elderly people who died unnecessarily because of the use of antipsychotics. The figure is from of royal college of psychiatry report written at the prompting of the government after a piece of research showed they were reducing life expectancy in the very elderly with symptoms of dementia by 50%.
Why unnecessarily? Because the behaviour of the elderly close to death has been accepted by society for generations. For a long time humanity has had the technology og a physical gag and restraints but these were never used on the elderly. They would be inhumane. In modern times there is a new technology.
Chemical restraint, which has been used on schizophrenics for years, became prescribed in the community to deal with a social problem. The drugs were no cure for Alzheimers. They are no cure for other mental illnesses either.
What punishment for these crimes? None. Not even a slap on the wrists. The drugs are still used on the schizophrenics for life with proposals for early intervention which would use these on a non 'ill' group and they are already being used on young children.
Why none? Well it's doctors doing it. These people are clearly ill....
Call it anything else but an illness and the people might start to see through the fallacy, the tyranny and the murder of the mentally ill to treat their behaviour.
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