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Study analyses link between psychotropic drugs and homicide risk

A study analysing the Finnish homicide and prescription drug databases discovered that the use of certain drugs that affect the central nervous system are associated with an increased risk of committing a homicide.

A study analysing the Finnish homicide and prescription drug databases discovered that the use of certain drugs that affect the central nervous system are associated with an increased risk of committing a homicide. The study is the first one of its kind in the world and found the greatest risk was associated with the use of painkillers and tranquillizing benzodiazepines, while anti-depressants were linked only to a slightly elevated risk. Professor Jari Tiihonen’s research group analysed the use of prescription drugs of 959 persons convicted of a homicide. “It has been repeatedly claimed that it was the anti-depressants used by

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