I don’t how to put this gently, but since we’re on the subject of drugs, Zimmerman had some very serious mental health issues prior to the incident.
The overarching issue looks to be ADHD. If Zimmerman is affected by ADHD, then his actions become more understandable. And looking at the drug used to treat the ADHD, Adderall, all I can say is, “Yikes!!” That is some very serious medication. Quite simply it is two types of speed; very gnarly and serious amphetamines. You treat the hyperactivity … that distracted zooming around with uppers.
Enter big Pharmacological gun two. That would be the Temazepam. Again, all I can say is, “Yikes!!” This drug is a cousin to the more well-known Valium. Damn dangerous stuff; Temazepam will knock you out flat, no fooling around. And like its cousin Valium, Temazepam, like all other benzodiazepines, is very habit forming. It has a very nasty hook to it.
Looking just at the drugs, I can confidently say that Zimmerman was not in his happy place; not at all. He was being pulled in two very different directions by two very heavy duty drugs.
How this speaks to criminal intent is not something I can comment on. Only a well versed pharmacologist or an expert in the ins and outs of ADHD could hazard a competent guess. Was the Adderall helping or hurting Zimmerman’s impulse control? Was the possible lack of sleep affecting Zimmerman’s thought process?
All I can say for sure is Zimmerman’s head was not a place I would want to be in. What a tangled and badly patched bunch of wires his brain must have been; especially when the flight or fight response kicked in.
That this man was waltzing around with a handgun is just too depressing a fact to contemplate. Nothing is inevitable, or fore-ordained, but Zimmerman was as close to a tragedy waiting to happen as any one human being can be. No way this man should have been in possession of a butter knife, never mind a sidearm.
But kids substitute for the Sprite and Jolly Ranchers in their concoction all the time. The article gives some of the substitutes but not all. The key ingredient is the dextromethorphan -- Robotussin DM. The other two provide the sugar high fow which the Skittles and Watermelon drink do just fine.
Perhaps a narcotics agent from the DEA could clear this all up at trial when they will finally have that toxicology report being sequestered by the prosecution, along with why Martin seems so disoriented and unsteady on his feet in the 711 video.
I don’t how to put this gently, but since we’re on the subject of drugs, Zimmerman had some very serious mental health issues prior to the incident.
For which he was under a doctor's care. The drugs were prescription drugs from his doctor -- big difference from street drug concoctions. I'm sure that Big Pharma would testify to the safety of those drugs at trial when taken under a doctor's orders. So don't let your heart be troubled.
And he didn't look hyper or whatever in the videos of him that night or the next day. There were no police observations of such. And he seemed quite lucid in his walkthru despite the beating that his head took the night before.
Maybe the Crump Team can argue that those whacks on the head that he took the night before were therapeutic, but they would be advised to stop short of referring to their hero as "Doctor" Martin.