Posted on 10/04/2017 4:36:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
Stephen Paddock, who killed at least 58 people and wounded hundreds more in Las Vegas on Sunday with high-powered rifles, was prescribed an anti-anxiety drug in June that can lead to aggressive behavior, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned...
Records from the Nevada Prescription Monitoring Program obtained Tuesday show Paddock was prescribed 50 10-milligram diazepam tablets by Henderson physician Dr. Steven Winkler on June 21. A woman who answered the phone at Winkler’s office would not make him available to answer questions and would neither confirm nor deny that Paddock was ever a patient.
Paddock purchased the drug — its brand name is Valium — without insurance at a Walgreens store in Reno on the same day it was prescribed. He was supposed to take one pill a day.
Diazepam is a sedative-hypnotic drug in the class of drugs known as benzodizepines, which studies have shown can trigger aggressive behavior. Chronic use or abuse of sedatives such as diazepam can also trigger psychotic experiences, according to drugabuse.com...
...A 2015 study published in World Psychiatry of 960 Finnish adults and teens convicted of homicide showed that their odds of killing were 45 percent higher during time periods when they were on benzodiazepines. A year earlier, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry published a study titled, “Benzodiazepine Use and Aggressive Behavior.” The authors wrote: “It appears that benzodiazepine use is moderately associated with subsequent aggressive behavior.”
Dr. Michael First, a clinical psychiatry professor at Columbia University and expert on benzodiazepines, said the Finnish study speaks for itself. But he also told the Review-Journal on Tuesday that he believes the drugs would be more likely to fuel impulsive aggression than premeditated behavior...
...The Nevada state monitoring report also noted that Winkler prescribed 50 10-milligram tablets of diazepam to Paddock in 2016...
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The video he took wasn’t to stop conspiracy theorists. It was to provide evidence for the FBI.
Yikes!
The rich really are different from you and me.
If I am paying 28 dollars for a burger it had better be a five pound burger.
Thx for link. Ghastly.
Single guy, wealthy, never married, lover overseas, was in possession of explosive agents as well as many weapons, put up cameras, in VEGAS...
There are many possibilities, but my 1st guess for the 2nd guest is a hooker. Receipt is on the 27th, I think - guns probably still stashed or not in room.
I’ll bet LE is searching high and low for clues on whoever the 2nd guest might be...
I heard that he had been married.
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Paddock was married and divorced twice, but had no children.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/what-we-know-about-las-vegas-gunman-stephen-paddock.html
I'd still guess "hooker" first, tho' there are plenty of other possibilities.
Maybe, but I think the second room was for dealers to come in and look at merchandise - a showroom. Very little suspicion as his father was a hard criminal and this guy was a gambler that shifted lots of money around. His room was the adjoined room. I think someone found a camera and they shot him in the belly immediately, which alerted the hotel (Someone screamed) or set off the alarm. They then shot up a concert to leave a message for the FBI and made it look like he killed himself. When the police had jammed up the strip, they went out the back, called a cab and said “Did you hear all that? Get us out of here!” and disappeared.
Perhaps his dossier was not up to date.
Google search somehow FORGOT to save ALL his online activity?
Not to worry.
The few dots that are known will be sufficient to connect into a Calvinosaurus of epic dimension.
History has shown it's MORE than 'possible'!
The manufacturers of the glass windows will get involved (they SHOULD have supplied unbreakable material)
Luxor will also get blamed (Why didn't it shine that bright light into the perp's (alledged; you know) face and blind him?
Why didn't MB activate the fire sprinklers in the room to slow him down?
Oh; it's going to be quite a circus (circus) in this case!!
Deep Pockets, Inc. does have insurance against this kinda fishing expedition (I’ve heard...).
I can't shoot thru an unbroken window; so I guess I'll have to make a hole-in-one.
Who doesn't??
But my AR does NOT have a bump stock.
(I didn't even know such a thing existed until Monday!)
Yeah, it must of been a big sales effort. I always take a large hammer for breaking out windows to my sales efforts.
It used to be a LOT cheaper back in the day!
Hookers are illegal in that county.
Well, AHEM... “escorts”.
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