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Pharmacogenetics: Emergent Violence to Self and others: Oops, wrong medication causing suicide/ homicide

Findings:

Psychiatric drugs and some general medications
have effects that are not always the ones intended.
Reactions to different drugs and drug-drug combinations
are governed by individual metabolising rates. Phase 1
metabolism takes place via the cytochrome P450 enzymes
with 57 human genes identified that are genetically
variable i.e. polymorphic. The population are coded as
poor, extensive (known as normal), intermediate or ultra
rapid metabolisers.

STUDY: Brogan-Treatment Emergent Violence to Self and Others.