“i can’t wait for the toxicology report.”
You will never see it, he was a good boy just turning his life around/S
These meds are given to people with mental disorders who are ALREADY suicidal/homocidal in many instances.. Maybe they don’t work that well in everyone, the symptoms continue and violence results.
It’s like saying because a large percentage of people who have heart attacks were also taking blood pressure medicines, the blood pressure medicines caused the heart attack.
As meticulous as Lanza was about destroying as much of his past as possible it is possible he got rid of all proof of drugs in the house, destroyed his computer, then went on his killing spree.
The mainstream news media has so badly jumped the shark recently (e.g. Fast and Furious, Benghazi, wildly varying “facts” on the Sandy Hook murders) that anything it says at this point simply has no credibility. If they say it, it may be true, but it has just as much likelihood of being false.
More gossip. Where is a doctor’s report who prescribed the meds?
I’ve always wondered which came first, the crazy that caused the drugs to be prescribed, or the crazy after they were prescribed?
Lanza far beyond violent. He was a premeditated mass killer.
“Institute for Safe Medication Practices”
Sounds like one of the following groups behind this:
1.Church of Scientology
2.Trial Lawyers
or
3. Holistic Medicine Manufacturer or Sales
My guess is that he was on antidepressants, and quit taking them. Being a good satanist, he was probably self medicating with other goodies.
One item that I’d like to see is whether a particular med is appropriately prescribed for the condition, and whether the lowest effective dose is being prescribed.
I see that Luvox is listed on the Ten Worst list, but I have to say that when it’s prescribed as above, it’s a Godsend. It’s the only med approved for children with moderate to severe OCD and for that, with the right kid in the right amount, it works. The reason SSRIs are so effective with OCD is that the serotonin in people affected by OCD recycles in the brain cells, creating the repetitive thoughts and doubts that lead to the OCD behaviors. The SSRI frees up the serotonin that is supposed to flow between brain cells and restores the balance. So, unless Dylan Klebold had OCD, it probably made things worse for him, or at least didn’t improve whatever he had.
OTOH, antidepressants in young people like Zoloft and Prozac scare the living stuffing out of me.
Bm
I couldn’t believe that the article stated “Adam Lanza, the suspected shooter in the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings...”
What the hell? Suspected shooter????????????
Can anyone explain such a stupid statement? Political Correctness has completely erased common sense in journalism.
Of course this might turn out to be a chicken or the egg kind of argument———are dangerous people made more dangerous by use of drugs, or do these drugs inhibit possible violence by already dangerous individuals? My own personal experience with someone with mental problems who was taking drugs was that she became more violent the more drugs she took. Maybe she would have gone bonkers anyway, at any rate, the more prescribed psychiatric drugs she took, the worse she got. And I had to break up the relationship before I woke up one morning with a knife stuck in my chest.