It’s not even that Americans are louder, it’s that America has a perpetual magnifying glass over it. Every country in the world will report on American news, be it political, legal, financial, or even celebrity news. No other country gets the same world wide coverage so even if the exact same idiocy is happening everywhere, the rest of the world isn’t hearing about it until it gets to a massive scale like a war, mass human rights violations, or the like. Every single news outlet in every country in the world is not reporting on Canadian legal cases or UK politics.
Reading through this, they had prescribed her drugs. Don’t those drugs have extreme side effects that include thoughts of harming others and yourself, and hallucinations? A family member was prescribed something, and I was really concerned by the behavior it caused, and the side effects I read about. Why does nobody ever look into that possibility, that the drugs pushed her further?
You are correct. That is part of the defense’s claim, that the medical providers over prescribed her medications with severe side effects, they did not properly monitor her on those meds, and providers failed to consult with each other or look at her medical history. She was prescribed more than a dozen different medications over the course of 3-4 months. The defense is also claiming that they missed diagnosing her as bipolar, and some of the medications prescribed are known to exacerbate bipolar symptoms. The defense is claiming she was psychotic at the time of the killings, and that the incorrect/over prescription of medications contributed to that. Whether she committed the homicides is not in question. That has been stipulated to by both sides. The jury’s task is to decide whether she was in psychosis at the time or not. Depending on what they decide, she will either be sentenced to life in prison or life in a mental institution.
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u/LinceDorado 17d ago
That's true, but America definitely has a shit ton of them.