I've read through studies that Abilify in particular is intended to have a long term effect on how the brain reshapes itself.
Personally, having such immediate negative effects, then being able to sort things out without the usage of the drug, kind of makes me question the competence of those who diagnosed me by asking me maybe 5 minutes of random questions, ones of which didn't really factor in their decision of just "diagnose the new drug, and see if it works out".
Not that I doubt that they can't have positive effects, but I believe they should - just as medicine - only used in desperation, not as a first solution to therapy, counciling, and general social activity(most effective of all of them). To say it's uneducated to not compare them to heroine is harsh. When, in fact, the only way to test drugs is monitored application.
Therefore, by the basic laws of science, there's no way to test drugs is to apply them to as many situations as possible. However, if the drug hasn't been around for a long term, it is literally impossible to assume that the drug has no long term effects, and no matter how much education you have, it's a scientific fallacy to assume there are none.
The comparison only remained relevant as something that is known to have differing long term effects, and the assumption that taking a drug for it's immediate effects is a definite indication of what it does in the long term.
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