Using Drugs To Deal With Crime.

What exactly do chemical castration drugs like Depo-Provera do? Psychologically and sexually, I mean. I know people use to think it castrated you, like surgical castration did. But then a while back there was story in the news. A man was on chemical castration therapy, thru intermuscular injection once a month. And he had a baby with his wife then. Yes, they said you can still have sex for babies, and the sex drive for that. So what does it do? I know he was a child molester and trying to hide low in another state so the injection he got the month before would wear off. So he didn't like effect I know, for some reason.

Because I do think drug intervention for criminal behavior is the best way. I also think we should have a drug to reduce aggression and restore empathy. Someone told me 20 years ago we do, someone told me recently we don't. (Actually 20 years ago they told me neuroleptics will reduce most forms of aggression. The guy recently might have thought I meant empathy. But I told him I thought Oxytocin did that.) Antipsychotics do remove all hallucinations, I know. Until they come back. Then they have to stabilize your antipsychotic, and then release you, if they reappear. (Hallucinations can lead to violence because some people hearing them have no choice but to do what their voices tell them, one guy told me in 2004. Think of the Durham rule in the U.S. Fortunately the case he was talking about was her voices telling her to throw hot coffee on someone. But if her voices told her to do anything more violent, that could have been worse.)

So what other drugs can people be forced to take to end violence and sexual assault? What do we have now? And what other issues need to be addressed with drugs?

 

Also, people who can never be cured of what makes them a serious threat to people need to be on psychiatric holds. Never punished, all countries agree now. Usually in mental hospitals or group homes. Those places usually have gardens and gazebos. And every Tuesday they bring in puppy dogs for the patients to hug. Because they're HOSPITALS, not cages. Okay?

And they take them to places like the circus. Bill O'Reilly said once he was okay with that. Taking dangerous people on indefinite (life, basically) psychiatric holds, to the circus. But he pointed out in one case, they have to be observed carefully. As any Catholic school nun will tell you, to observe someone who may be planning something, you have to sit behind them. So you can see everything they are doing, including where their hands are at all times. And they can't see you. O'Reilly pointed out, the lady social worker was behind the sex offenders in the circus, in this case. But she kept falling asleep. They should try to stay awake, Bill pointed out. Or maybe have more than one, and on each side.

 

Circus, a good metaphor. Have you seen Kubricks: Clockwork Orange?