Violence and Aggression. Is it being caused by Pharmaceutical Drugs?

Violence and aggression, hatred and abuse, surrounds us, and it seems to be getting worse. But usually we do not get close to identifying the cause.

Has there ever been a time when hatred, violence, aggression, abusive behaviour, et al, has been more rife in society? I would not argue the case either way! There has always been violence. But whether this is so or not we are certainly not adept at deciding what is the cause of violent and abusive behaviour.

• Guns kill; but someone has to pull the trigger.

• Knives kill; but someone has to thrust them into a victim.

• Social media might carry threats and abuse; but someone has to write it.

Sometimes human intelligence is really not that smart; and even when smart it is not always honest. Guns, knives, social media, et al, are not a cause of violence; they are merely vehicles. Too often what we believe depends too much on what we want to believe. Or what we are led to believe by vested interests. Our ‘intelligence’ is selective, gathering together the information that supports our prejudices, and ignoring what does not.

I am as guilty of this as anyone. For instance, I believe that pharmaceutical drugs are an important cause of many serious illnesses and diseases that abound in our modern world. Too often I see descriptions of disease paraded as causes of disease. Too often the adverse effects (serious illness and disease) of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines as known - but ignored when it comes to considering disease causation.

It is surely too much of a coincidence that most chronic disease, all of which have grown explosively in recent decades, have done so alongside the bonanza of pharmaceutical drug-taking during the same period. And this applies to the worrying level of violence we are now seeing in our social life.

• My perception is that modern society is undoubtedly becoming progressively more violent.

Violence appears to be more concerned with our everyday life. It is no longer criminal violence, or abusive politics and politicians, or warfare and war crimes between people’s and nations. It is violence at a more personal level - domestic abuse, sexual crime, social media abuse, communal division, mass shootings, knife stabbings, road rage, and the like.

Sexual crime has recently been brought to the fore in the UK. The UK Home Secretary has described violence against women as “a national emergency”. Statistics supporting this abound. The Rape Crisis Centre says that 1 in 4 women have been raped or sexually assaulted since the age of 16; that 1 in 6 children have been sexually abused; and that there were 71,227 rapes recorded by the police in 2024.

And around the world there is concern about the amount of aggression and abuse that abounds on social media, and the impact this is having on children.

• My prejudice, I believe supported by strong and convincing circumstantial evidence, is that increased violence and aggression at this personal/social level is, in large part, caused by the ‘side effects’ of pharmaceutical drugs.

• I have written about this before, many times, for example in “Mass Killings in the USA: what is the cause?”

So what role do pharmaceutical drugs play in causing aggression and violence? The link is most certainly in the public domain, we should be fully aware that drugs and vaccines play a role. This is admitted within conventional medical literature when known adverse drug reactions are reported by drug regulators. And it is written clearly on the (seldom-read) Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) that come in each drug packet.

I have written about this before, in some detail - including a long list of the evidence that pharmaceutical drugs are known to cause the patient to become violent and aggressive.

And this information is now being confirmed on AI forums. I asked the AI package linked to my Firefox browser “What pharmaceutical drugs are known to cause violence and aggression?” and it came up with this:

“Pharmaceutical drugs that can cause violence and aggression include stimulants like amphetamines and certain antidepressants, as well as benzodiazepines, which may lead to aggressive behavior in some individuals. Alcohol, while not a pharmaceutical drug, is also commonly linked to increased aggression due to its effects on judgment and impulse control”.

Unfortunately this is an incomplete summary of the association. This can be seen on my ‘Iatrogenic Disease’ website which shows that aggression and violence is linked to many other drugs, including painkilling drugs such as paracetamol (tylenol), antiviral drugs, ADHD drugs, antipsychotic drugs, and many others.

Yet so often, when discussing the cause of any serious illness or disease, the role of pharmaceutical drugs (however well documented) is discounted or ignored completely. So I asked my AI platform a further question - “what are the main causes of violence and aggression? and this was the response.

“The main causes of violence and aggression include frustration, exposure to violent media, environmental factors like heat and overcrowding, and personal issues such as mental instability or substance abuse. Additionally, experiences of abuse, neglect, and social rejection can significantly increase the likelihood of violent behaviour”.

As usual, with routine conventional medical explanations of the cause of aggression and violence, the information is correct - but partial, incomplete, and therefore inadequate. It fails to mention the pharmaceutical drugs our doctors have been prescribing in ever-larger amounts for the last 70-80 years.

Why this omission? Why does the much heralded ‘Artificial Intelligence’ neglect the role of pharmaceutical drugs when it is clearly aware of the link? It suggests that AI is as prejudiced as our human intelligence. It has been programmed to tell us about only a limited view of the causation of violence.

Pharmaceutical drugs are clearly known to be an important cause of and violence. It is in the medical literature. It is alluded to, but heavily discounted by the new “AI” intelligence.

What this suggests is that AI platforms, just like our governments, our mainstream media, and conventional health services and providers, are heavily compromised by the lobbying and the largesse of the rich and powerful pharmaceutical companies. It also suggests that we have the intelligence to know about an important cause of social violence (and much more). But we do not all have the honesty or integrity to resist the financial incentives offered to us to ignore it!

When we ignore, or neglect any possible cause of violence and aggression, or any illness or disease, we will inevitably fail as a society to identify important, and perhaps blindingly obvious ‘treatments’ for it!

We can reduce violence by avoiding all the known causes; not least by abstaining from the pharmaceutical drugs we know can cause it!

What Pharmaceutical Drugs are known to cause Confusion, and Memory Loss, as a 'side effect'?

I have long believed that pharmaceutical drugs can, and do cause serious illness and disease. 

Now I discover that AI programmes agree with me. So are drugs the real cause of the dementia epidemic?

I began writing my ebook, “Iatrogenic Disease. The Disease Inducing Effects (DIEs) of Pharmaceutical Drugs and Vaccines” in 2007. If I had waited 18 years I need not have bothered! Artificial Intelligence (AI) programmes have achieved the task for me.

Recently the search engine I use, DuckDuckGo, added a ‘Search Assist’ feature. I typed the question above into this and received the following response.

“Several pharmaceutical drugs are known to cause confusion as a side effect, including benzodiazepines (like diazepam and lorazepam), tricyclic antidepressants, anticholinergic medications, and certain antihistamines. These medications can interfere with cognitive functions and may lead to increased confusion, especially in older adults”.

Given my research into my ebook I already knew this, but I had suspected that the Pharmaceutical Medical Establishment may have heavily invested in AI, and their money might have ‘skewed’ its response. I was pleased so I asked for more information. It provided useful information on the following classes of drug.

• Anticholinergic Drugs

• Incontinence Drugs

• Tricyclic Antidepressants

• Benzodiazepines

• Opioids

• Corticosteroids

• Antiseizure Drugs

Useful, yes, honest, yes, but not comprehensive. My webpage suggests that it could have told me about the following classes of drug.

• Antihistamine Drugs

• Proton Pump Inhibitors

• Hormone Replacement (HRT)

• Flu Vaccines

• and several others, including polypharmacy

Confusion is just one symptom of dementia. So I tried Memory Loss. If pharmaceutical drugs are known to cause this too, haven’t we arrived at a significant cause of the dementia epidemic?

“Common pharmaceutical drugs known to cause memory loss include benzodiazepines (like Xanax and Valium), tricyclic antidepressants (such as amitriptyline), anticholinergic medications, and certain anti-seizure drugs. These medications can impair memory function, particularly with long-term use or at high doses”.

My WhatsApp programme also gives me access to an AI programme, so I tried this with the same questions. Again, useful, honest if perhaps not comprehensive information was shared. I will not provide further quotations and examples though as I would like all my readers to find out important information about themselves - simply by asking this question within an AI platform.

“What Pharmaceutical drugs are known to cause ??(disease)?? as a ‘side effect’?”

The ??(disease)?? can be filled in by yourself - input the most serious illness you are suffering from, or have suffered; then have a look at the drugs known to cause your illness; then determine whether you have you taken them during your life; and then whether they could be a cause of your illness.

We should all be doing this! Patient harm caused by pharmaceutical drugs don’t affect “them”, they affect “us”. All of us. And as I have pointed out so many times before we are not told by our doctors about the harm they know they can cause. As I said in a recent article,

“The full extent of the harm caused by pharmaceutical drugs to human ill-health is almost completely unknown. Patients know, and we are told, about only a tiny proportion of what doctors know. And doctors know only a minute proportion of the total picture of the harm their drugs cause”.

If pharmaceutical drugs can cause, and are known to cause confusion and memory loss, we are well on our way to understanding one of the significant causes of the ongoing, and ever-growing dementia epidemic.

And if pharmaceutical drugs can cause serious illness and disease it brings us close to an important new treatment strategy:

Stop taking pharmaceutical drugs!

Pharmaceutical Drug Prices to Rise by £ billion in Britian

UK-USA Government agreement will mean that the NHS drugs bill will rise by 12%. But it is highly likely that our NHS/Media/Government will not tell the whole story!

Prices in a competitive economic market are usually determined by two factors, supply and demand - or at least this is what economic theory has taught us for centuries! However, in the health market they seem to be a matter for agreement by government, under pressure from the powerful Pharmaceutical Medical Establishment (PHE). The Daily Mail tells us what we are allowed to know has happened:

          “Under the terms of the agreement, the UK will get a preferential tariff rate of 0% for all medicines exported to the US for at least three years. But, in return, the Government has agreed the NHS will increase the price it pays for new medicines by 25%.”

The Mail, alongside most other mainstream media outlets, in similar, almost identical articles, continues with quotations from a variety of people to justify the deal.

          ‘This vital deal will ensure UK patients get the cutting-edge medicines they need sooner, and our world-leading UK firms keep developing the treatments that can change lives. It will also enable and incentivise life sciences companies to continue to invest and innovate right here in the UK. This will support thousands of skilled jobs, boost our economy and ensure that the breakthroughs that happen in our labs turn into treatments that benefit families across the country.’ (Liz Kendall, Science minister).

Peter Kyle, the Business/Trade Secretary, said: ‘This deal guarantees that UK pharmaceutical exports – worth at least £5 billion a year - will enter the US tariff free, protecting jobs, boosting investment and paving the way for the UK to become a global hub for life sciences. We will continue to build on the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal, and the record-breaking investments we secured during the US State Visit, to create jobs and raise living standards as part of our plan for change”. (Peter Kyle, Trade Minister).

The USA health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., also justified the agreement, stating: “Americans should not pay the world’s highest drug costs for medicines they helped fund. This agreement with the UK strengthens the global environment for innovative medicines and brings long-overdue balance to US–UK pharmaceutical trade”.

So the driving forces for this massive price hike for drugs and vaccines are almost entirely economic and political, and certainly not medical - except in the promises and hopes for the future.

It is clear that the UK government is bending to pressure from the USA government which was threatening to impose tariffs on British drug companies. The UK pharmaceutical industry, in large part because of this threat, was proposing to withdraw promised new investment into the UK’s economy. This is confirmed in the Mail article which states that the agreement comes after big pharmaceutical companies ditched, or paused, £billions of planned UK investments this year.

Yet the medical side of the story remains untold, and is likely to remain untold as far as the mainstream media is concerned.

Pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines are largely ineffective, and through their serious adverse reactions, disguised as “side effects”, they contribute to severe illness and disease. In other words, they do not work; and they cause serious patient harm.

This is what we are being asked to pay, an extra 25%, for drugs that are not “safe and effective”, as we are routinely told. It is a price hike for something that have been a leading factor in the rise of chronic disease to epidemic levels, in other words for something that has been making us sicker for at least the last 70+ years.

The NHS descends further into financial failure.

It is yet another cost to a national health service (NHS) which has been on its knees for decades, and is now close to bankrupting the national economy. The NHS budget has been increasing exponentially every year since in foundation in 1948. Its annual budget that year was just £460 million. This is equivalent to about £21.5 billion in today’s money. However, this financial year the cost of the NHS has risen to over £200 billion, and is projected to rise to £230 billion next year - even prior to these increases in drug prices.

The Taxpayer pays

The government has already said it will pay the additional £3 billion, which places yet another burden on taxpayers, for a service that is now 10 times more expensive than originally envisaged. This is not just a comparison of health costs. The NHS has clearly NOT been underfunded, as is so often claimed. Nor is it because of population growth (48.9 million in 1948, and 69.5 million in 2025) - an increase of some 4,573% (if my maths is up to the task).

This percentage increase is probably a very approximate estimate of how much sicker we have become - following nearly 80 years of ever-increasingly consumption of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccine.

More money for the Pharmaceutical Industry

The pharmaceutical industry is already the most profitable industry in the world and now they are being offered yet more money by the British taxpayer. Much of this new money will be spent by drug companies on ensuring that we are not told about the failure of their drugs and vaccines.

• Both governments and key politicians will be lobbied by the PME.

• Conventional medical practitioners will be reminded that their future careers depend on the PME.

• And the mainstream media corporations will be persuaded by advertising revenues to ‘stay on the PME message’.

The absence of competition within the NHS

There is no competition for drugs and vaccines within the NHS. It is completely dominated by pharmaceutical, drug-based treatments. When you see your doctor, or go to the local hospital, you will get medical treatment based on pharmaceutical drugs. There is no homeopathy on offer, no herbalism, no chiropractor, no acupuncture, indeed, not much natural therapy of any kind offered or allowed with the NHS.

The NHS supplies the PME with a monopoly. This offers two benefits:

• As economists have known for many years, monopolies can charge whatever they like for their products; so drug companies are in control of drug prices.

• Once a monopoly has been granted the organisation granting it (the NHS in this case) becomes totally dependent on a single supplier. Thus the NHS is obliged to pay the prices demanded by PME. Perfect circularity!

Kennedy’s Health Reforms

This has all arisen from a health debate currently going on in the USA. Robert F. Kennedy, Jnr., the Health Secretary, is not just bringing the cost of pharmaceutical drugs down in the USA (which may be fair), he is challenging much else about pharmaceutical medicine:

• Medical Science. Kennedy is casting serious doubt on the quality (and honesty) of the ‘science’ that has been testing drugs/vaccines that over the last 70+ years. It has consistently found them to be “safe and effective” - before patients finding, to their cost, that they cause serious illness and disease. So medical science is causing significant patient harm.

• Drug Regulation. Kennedy is challenging a system of drug regulation that has approved these ‘scientifically’ tested but dangerous drugs/vaccines. They mostly confirm the dishonest ‘science’, and then fail to take appropriate action to protect patients from harm when that harm has been reported.

Kennedy’s challenge to the PME constitutes a serious problem for the drug industry. Like never before, drug/vaccine safety and effectiveness is being brought into serious question. The USA drug regulator, the FDA, is now investigating the performance of some of the industry’s most profitable drugs, demanding more proof of their safety and effectiveness, before they are given to patients.

This constitutes a serious threat to the profitability of the pharmaceutical industry. This suggests that UK drug companies are not threatening to withdraw planned investment in Britain because of the USA tariff threat, but because of the possible reduction in drug sales arising from the ‘threat’ to drug/vaccine sales:

1. having to prove that their drugs/vaccines are really “safe and effective”,

2. the publicity that pharma drugs/vaccines are not as safe, or as effective, as has been claimed for many decades.

On top of this, drug companies are having to reduce their prices in the USA, another blow to their profits. So they want to recoup their losses in Britain.

So the PME is facing a serious problem, both in credibility, and in profitability. And the UK government has agreed to pick up the tab, and pay the price. It sees the health situation in Britain with a simplistic naivety.

• that it is pharmaceutical medicine that has kept us healthy, and that protects us from serious illness and disease!

• that illness is a misfortune, and not (in large part) the result of pharmaceutical medical treatment!

• that they are responsible for our health treatment, and need to spend as much money as possible for pharmaceutical health treatment!

• that there is only one “safe and effective” health system that will deliver it, and there are no alternatives to pharmaceutical medicine.

None of these beliefs permit the UK government to do more than acquiesce to these price hikes for pharmaceutical drugs. Government is controlled by the PME!