Posted on 10/04/2017 1:38:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The drug, marketed as Valium, is part of a class of medication known as anxiolytic and sedative, which are commonly referred to as benzodiazepines, Scott Dehorty, LCSW-C, executive director at Maryland House Detox, Delphi Behavioral Health, told Fox News by email. Citing the Nevada Prescription Monitoring Program, the Las Vegas Review-Journal identified Dr. Steven Winkler as the prescribing physician, but he was not made available for comment.
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Dehorty described diazepam as a “highly addictive medication, which can have paradoxical effects.” He cautioned that continued use of the medication could cause patients to suffer from symptoms they initially sought relief from.
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“You’re thinking of Diltiazem.”
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Nope. I know my BP meds, I take a beta-blocker these days. Besides all that, it was prescribed by its brand name, “Valium”.
Good Lord. Who hasn’t taken a valium at one time or another.
This gives us no insight as the the motive of this killer.
The worst reaction I have seen was emergence delirium in a child given Ketamine for sedation many years ago....whew
She jumped up from the gurney, grabbed onto the drop ceiling grid and pulled down half the ceiling tiles in the ER.
It seems unlikely that diazepam would cause an otherwise sane 64yr old to create and carry out a devious plan of mass murder.
A word of caution.... one should NEVER drink and take valium at the same time... valium cocktails are deadly!
“This seems about as relevant to the crime as the fact that he breathed air.”
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That’s about what I thought when I saw the story earlier. Maybe if he were a garbage mouth, mixing and matching all sorts of psychotropic meds...but even then.
But if it’s just Valium the most violent thing a person might do is take up knitting (a diagnostic hat-tip to Dr.McCoy in the Star Trek episode, “Wolf In The Fold”).
Ambien is IMO dangerous...it can cause anterograde amnesia.
I once took one to get to sleep and sometime during the night I raided the icebox and ate half a cherry pie! Had no memory of it in the morning.
It binds to GABA sites, that is the cause of the amnesia.
I’ve only seen this paradoxical effect once as an RN. It was a kid 13-14 who was strung out and crazy on PCP.
We tried to scrape him off the wall using IV diazepam, and it made him incrementally worse. “Fangs-out ape-shit crazy” just about describes this kid.
“Ketamine”
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A question for you - are meds with the suffix “mine” pronounced “mean” or “mine”? I use both pronunciations since I’ve never been sure which is correct.
Thought I remember Hillary’s personal doctor had that in hand ......
Visible On several occasions.
Ket-Uh-Mean
A dissociative psychedelic anesthetic that causes people to have horrific and very realistic hallucinations as they come out from under its influence.
Nasty stuff.
I agree. It was used like M and Ms back in 50s and 60s and even the 70s. It is the prissy brigade that tsk tsks all the meds used for anxiety and depression.
Never heard of addictions or problems.
It must be very selective whom it addicts.
Valium doesn’t make a killer. That’s ridiculous. It makes you sleepy.
I’ve taken 5mg of Vaium a couple times. made me drowsy.
Eh, diet coke was tougher to kick than cigs.
Thanks - I was more curious about pronunciation of suffix as a rule for all meds ending with “mine”. I suppose it would be “mean” then.
Also, when some people come around after a long sedated hospital stay - isn’t there sometimes something called “hospital delirium” or the like? Where they hallucinate for awhile (e.g. doctors/hospital personnel are trying to kill them and/or general paranoia)?
Bracing for the “anyone on diazepam is no longer allowed to own firearms” drama
I was on Lorazepam as a substitute for for muscle relaxers, it is some funky stuff, it turns the world into slow motion and gives a sense of zen. Had to stop taking it because it would give me vision blurring migraines. I have to say though, I have never done such detailed programming in my life as when I was on that stuff. However I find myself less emotional and empathetic than before being put on that stuff, even after being off of it for years. Its kinda spooky it has that after effect. Thank God I still have a sense of right and wrong.
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