The Neurontin drug may be meant to help people who suffer debilitating epileptic seizures. However, the side affect may be more life-threatening than a seizure. Patients who take the drug have stated they think about suicide more often, and they are more likely to act on those very ideas. What good will the drugs do, if individuals even attempt to hurt themselves? In addition, the medication tends to stay in the systems of elderly patients longer than their younger counterparts do. Therefore, by the time they are supposed to take the next dose, the previous one is still not out of their system. So, an unsafe level of the Neurontin drug can build up in their bodies.