[smokingfrog]

Abdulazeez, who was shot and killed by police after a hail of gunfire, was first treated by a child psychiatrist for depression when he was 12 or 13 years old, said the family representative.

“He was medicated like many children are. Through high school and college he did a better job sometimes than others staying with it,” said the spokesman.

Several years ago, relatives tried to have Abdulazeez admitted to an in-patient program for drug and alcohol abuse but a health insurer refused to approve the expense, said the representative.

Recently, Abdulazeez had begun working the night shift at a manufacturing plant and was taking medication to help with problems sleeping in the daytime, the representative said, and he also had a prescription for muscle relaxants because of a back problem.

It’s unknown what substances were in the man’s system at the time of the slayings, but toxicology tests should provide an answer.

http://www.argus-press.com/news/state_news/article_4a2cbdb3-2cb3-589f-a516-550833f54b22.html

[petitfour]

Conflicting descriptions of this brilliant, friendly, depressed, alcohol/drug-abusing engineer.

Sounds like the sweet young men who flew planes into buildings.

[palmer]

“He was medicated like many children are. Through high school and college he did a better job sometimes than others staying with it,” said the spokesman.

Then he went to Jordan to get radicalized like many young adults do. Psychoactive drugs and religion do not mix, at the very least for those religions that believe in death to infidels.