The pills were Sertraline. Sertraline is an SSRI which is safe as long as you don't stop taking it suddenly. If you do, you get something like a "despair" attack. People who kill themselves on Sertraline do it after stopping to take it. This is a serious risk since most depressed people don't always act in their best interests.
The real problem in this case is the fact that the pills were unlabeled to keep the father in the dark.
I don't know if they're wrong on children, since there may be edge cases where it's appropriate, but SSRI's shouldn't be illegal. They have their proper use and they do help lift the load.
The pills were Sertraline. Sertraline is an SSRI which is safe as long as you don't stop taking it suddenly. If you do, you get something like a "despair" attack. People who kill themselves on Sertraline do it after stopping to take it. This is a serious risk since most depressed people don't always act in their best interests.
The real problem in this case is the fact that the pills were unlabeled to keep the father in the dark.
Nothing about something that messes with your brain chemistry enough to do what you described fits the "safe" descriptor.
This. SSRIs should be illegal, let alone allowing children to have them.
I don't know if they're wrong on children, since there may be edge cases where it's appropriate, but SSRI's shouldn't be illegal. They have their proper use and they do help lift the load.
SSRIs practically don’t even have an efficacy better than placebo. They are worthless poison, plain and simple:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4592645/#:~:text=If%20the%20trial%20included%20two,that%20with%20placebo%20was%2044.6%25.
Maybe not “illegal”, but they need a near total shift in their prescription regime. And not ever to children.