Any remaining reservations I had about forcibly medicating an animal went out the window.
"Anything that encourages GPs away from blanket medicating patients is very welcome, " she said.
"We are medicating children sometimes for ferociously awful behavior based on poor parenting, " she said.
There also is potential for abuse, with parents intentionally medicating their children to make their behavior more manageable.
Too many people may be damaging their health by self-medicating with sleeping pills, according to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
The plea deal comes after months of legal battling over forcibly medicating Mr. Loughner to restore him to competency, a move his lawyers protested.
While stressing there are legitimate cases that call for medicating children, Roberts, who practices in Murrietta, California, warned against throwing pills at a problem.
They used the placebo to calm patients, without medicating them so they could diagnose their condition more accurately after the patients had regained their composure.
"Patients are medicating themselves with so many over-the-counter herbs and supplements, " she says, which can have potentially dangerous side effects, particularly in combination with prescription drugs.
The solution to the problem, he argued, was not to stop medicating people but to find more efficient ways of capturing the chemicals as they go through sewerage plants.
That's the real issue with self medicating because you have relied on it in the past with some degree of success, it can often be too big a temptation to use again.
The judge ruled that only the jury could determine if AEG Live should have been aware that the strong financial pressure Dr. Murray was under was enough to cause him to potentially put Michael at risk of harm by over-medicating him.
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