When you think that the one keeping you from hiding your rage on someone does its purpose, think again. A study published in World Psychology dares anyone taking pain relievers and antidepressants to find alternatives in managing their feelings.
European psychiatrists have studied 960 homicide convicts in Finland to have been influenced by taking pain relievers and antidepressants have higher tendencies to violent acts compared to those who have not taken any.
In the study a control group was set up where each member was matched with ten people with similar traits including age (from 13 to 88), gender and hometown only the counterparts’ not committing homicide.
Everyone who participated in the study was checked if dosages of psychiatric drugs as well as pain relievers and medications for managing epilepsy and controlling addictions taken over the period of seven years through a consultation with a national drug registry by the researchers.
Police reports were also assessed whether any mood enhancers like alcohol or drugs were in the systems of the homicide convicts upon committing the crimes.
Results got the better of the researchers as it was shown that those who took regular pain relievers had substantially highest increase in risk to commit suicide, while unlikely observations were seen on those who were on antidepressants, which have in the past been tied to well-publicized crimes such as some school shootings in Finland and the US, exhibited the lowest risk.
Live Science adds that the researchers saw a 45-percent increase in the risk among people who took tranquilizers and a 31-percent increase among those who took antidepressants, strengthening the claim of the study.
A 200 percent increase of homicide tendencies were found on those who took anti-inflammatory pain relievers, meanwhile, manifested on people who were on opioid pain relievers was an increase by 92 percent.
Weakened impulse control was attributed to the elevation observed under the influence of tranquilizers according to the researchers. Certain painkillers on the other hand are being suggested to negatively impact the processing of emotions.
Although the scientists warned that the research did not see causality between certain medications and the heightened risk to commit homicide, the association was still intact. Taking these medications could not necessarily lead to committing homicide, says the researchers on a concluding statement.
Head study author Dr. Jari Tiihonen emphasizes, however, that the use of antidepressants, through the research should be guaranteed to not cause violent behaviors contradicting certain associations. Tiihonen, a psychiatry professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockhold, Sweden further comments that “If anything, we should be concerned about prescriptions of high-dose benzodiazepines andopioid painkillers for people with substance abuse.”
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