Sounds like a silly question but a Swedish study published in The Lancet has indicated a significant reduction in violent crime in patients that are treatment compliant. Does anyone have any views on this that might support such an assertion or perhaps question its validity? Sorry about the very long URL.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Schizophrenia/45650?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-05-08&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=WC&eun=g297031d0r&userid=297031&email=barrysturn@aol.com&mu_id=5291553
Dear Barry
Abraham et al. (2008) demonstrated in a review the shift from SSRIs to anticonvulsants and atypical antipsychotics in the pharmacologic treatment of patients with affect regulation disorders and aggressive behavior.
Abraham PF, Calabrese JR. Evidenced-based pharmacologic treatment of
borderline personality disorder: a shift from SSRIs to anticonvulsants and
atypical antipsychotics? J Affect Disord. 2008 Nov;111(1):21-30. doi:
10.1016/j.jad.2008.01.024. Epub 2008 Mar 4. Review. PubMed PMID: 18304647.
greetings Egon
In this paper it looks like people suffering from an affective or psychotic disorder were noncompliant with their medication during the offense:
Factors influencing 2,260 opinions of defendants’ restorability to adjudicative competency.Warren, Janet I.; Chauhan, Preeti; Kois, Lauren; Dibble, Ashley; Knighton, Jeff. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law19.4 (Nov 2013): 498-508.
......defendant was likely to be restored to competency in the foreseeable future. This opinion was reached more frequently with defendants who were female, under the age of 60, suffering from an affective or psychotic disorder with previous psychiatric hospitalizations, and who were noncompliant with psychiatric medication at the time of the offense.
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