was his blood even tested for illegal drugs? If I slip and fell at work and had to go the ER, I would get tested for drug use. this guy murdered a kindergarten classroom full of kids but did we test him for drugs?
ba ba but...
Medications don't make a person a killer any more than does a gun.
I have been saying on FR. I believe that Adam was just a manipulative & lazy BRAT.
Momma's boy, and she made it so comfortable for him, he had it made.
Suddenly momma wakes up & says it's time for you Adam to get up off your 20 year old lazy behind and get a job, get out of this house. That's when all hell broke loose.
Up to that point little ADAM knew exactly how to play his mother, which buttons to press. She would either give him his way or buy him something. I suspect he did not want to go live with his father, couldn't get his way there.
That is how mother began losing it as well. Spare the Rod, spoil the child.
So will all new gun purchases require a disclosure that anyone in your family has Asperger’s or is (or isn’t) on their meds, or was a geek in high school?
Well this FR thread certainly indicates he should have been under psych eval and possibly hospitalization. So now the argument shifts, should he have been treated more agressively including drug therapy?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2970064/posts
That’s the “evidence”? They didn’t find any at the apartment.
This whole case stinks to high heaven.
He had his brother’s drivers license. Did he have one, himself? Did he have this “Aspurgers”, or not?
There certainly seems to be a complete lack of authoritative information. It all sounds like complete guesswork.
If truly asperger’s Syndrome there would be no medications unless he was being treated for secondary issues - like anxiety, depression. Honestly, I think the crazed shooter, probably also had a good old case of Schizophrenia. Unfortunately, in diagnostic of schizophrenia, generally not done until the youth was 21 - 22. when the disordered is manifest.
Asperger’s Syndrome is generally diagnosed when the child is 5-7. Diagnosis became more prevalent after 1991, when Aspereger’s became known as a new learning disability.
The child with a learning disability could be with the school system until age 21. yet, the mother strived to take him out of the school system, yet he was believed to taking classes at a college too.
The media needs to look for Individualized Education Plan (IEP) for Adam Lanza. With the IEP, which would give the media a better understanding of the disorder.
It needs to be understand, not evryone with Asperger’s Syndrome becomes crazed and becomes a killer. There is more to the psychological makeup of Adam Lanza. There is also problems with the environment of Lanza - home life troubles divorced parents, mother may have been a little unbalanced herself.
wikkipedia has a good article about Asperger’s Syndrome though it is 22 pages long.
However Lanza's uncle on 60 minutes said that Adam was given the psychotropic prescription drug, Fanapt.
Adam Lanza was on Fanapt, an antipsychotic drug with violence as a side effect
Seeing as he smashed his hard drives, he probably threw out his medication as well.
We'll learn the truth soon enough once the toxicology reports and medical records are released and then, I'll wager, he was taking something.
I wish people would stop talking about this being time for “the healing to begin.” Are they high? The dead aren’t even buried, parents are still staggering around in shock, the dead children’s gifts are still under the tree, and someone says it’s time for the healing to begin?? They should get a riflebutt to the teeth for such a remark. It’ll be months and months before there’s any “healing.” These people are still dripping blood from their hearts, for pete’s sake.
I’ve known two genuinely and seriously mentally ill people in my life. You didn’t want to be around them when they were off their meds. The effects of the meds were bad enough but without them, they were truly scary. Violent, even.
If none show in a toxicology screen he’s been off them a while, too. Not going to be completely cleared from his system in a short period of time.