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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No, he was buying guns last year too.
Paddock does not have a history of mental illness, and he was 64 I think we would know by now if he had issues with meds before now.
I think younger males in particular can definitely get violent on an impulse with certain anti depressants.
“Paddock does not have a history of mental illness, and he was 64 I think we would know by now if he had issues with meds before now.”
Paddock’s father was a bank robber on the FBI’s most wanted list, and was a sociopath. Mental illness often runs in families. Sounds like the acorn didn’t fall far from the tree.
Valium treats several other conditions, including:
acute alcohol withdrawal
skeletal muscle spasm
seizure disorders
chronic sleep disorder
Valium is NOT an antidepressant.
I suppose that's possible but to be successful the hotel would have to have been shown to have known that he had an arsenal in his room *or* that they had an obligation to put all guest luggage trough an X-Ray scanner.
Seems to me that lawsuits against the LVPD might be successful with a low IQ jury."With all the space age equipment they have it took them *that* long to pinpoint the source of the shooting and then stop it? Absolutely unforgivable!".
Of course I'm not a lawyer so I could be wrong.
I believe he got himself a prescription for valium so he could calmly carry out this mission.
Recall all those articles about Democrats getting medicated after Trump won?
Police departments would certainly have immunity from what you describe.
Years ago there was a nightclub fire in Rhode Island in which something like 100 kids were killed.After the dust had settled it was reported that there was basically no insurance and that the owners of the club were basically broke.At some point not long after this became known a lawyer announced that he was gonna sue Shell Oil Company (yah,*that* Shell Oil) because they were one of the sponsors of the tour that the band that was playing when the fire started was on.
Shell Oil Company!
Really? I thought that police departments were being sued left and right for "failure to provide adequate protection" (my words).
Tin Foil Hat Alert: Paddock’s Muslimophile gal-pal radicalized him by proxy, aided by a liberal use of SSRIs, administered either directly or surreptitiously. In other words: His girlfriend wound him up, helped set him up, then let him rip. Paddock was a patsy!
Specific police misconduct is not immune. Generic “failure to protect” is immune.
So.... his girlfriend worked in the Hotel. Was she an SEIU member ?
Why would you want to spoil all of the conspiracy theories by posting a sensible comment?
Golf club travels bags would be perfect for that.
Perhaps.
But it is enough to knock me completely, unresponsively out for 8 hours.
Who knows what this perp's individual response to benzodiazepines was? What else was he taking?
Hopefully a postmortem drug panel will show that.
Still no excuse or justification, but might have lowered the threshold, and it might remind medical professionals to better monitor their patients' individual responses to drugs.
>Re: 7
>Really? He lugged what appear to have been 20 or so middle of the road long guns up to the 32nd floor of a hotel to sell?
>Brought them all up to his room to sell?
>So the. users would have to be bring them all back down to the 1st Floor?
30 minutes on a luggage cart in 4-5 duffle bags and an elevator. No one knows. The problem is negotiation. Two rooms (suite for buyers, side room for him). He and they have gloves for handling.
After seeing the horrific side and withdrawal affects my wife has gone through for the past several years from a prescribed benzo, no one will ever convince me that this is not a factor.
That number of guns in the gun running world is mice nuts. Trust me - gun runners move guns at a far bigger rate that 40.
On the other hand a Dr prescribes the Valium in Henderson - 400 miles from where the script was filled. That in its self seems odd. Did he see the guy that day? Doubtful. Unless this was a refill.
A chemical solution for a spiritual problem. That'll work.
Still probably, nay certainly, better than turning to islam...
“Valium did not cause this.”
Not a chance. At least not by itself.
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