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 so....He even bought some in 2016. There was a purchase in Feb of 2017. That’s what I remember from the video.
How hard is it to buy Valium on the Vegas black market?
Paddock had to know a few guys who knew some guys. Yet he gets a doctor’s prescription on 6/21/17.
Awfully convient timing, eh?
“They found fertilizer in one of his vehicles...”
And explosives at one of his houses. The way the Sheriff described it as “explosives and electronics” sounds like he is saying bomb making material. Seems like he was planning something on an even larger scale but for some reason settled or was rushed to this instead.
He’d had at least one other prescription last year.
And he apparently had a skyview overlooking another recent Las Vegas festival.
I believe so.
CC
At least 2 Vegas hotels have started up using metall detecors sibce the shooting.
Big Pharm is possibly culpable? I’m SHOCKED.....NOT!
Per order of their lawyers no doubt.
So he says to the doc, “I’ve been caught up in some spook gun-running with guys tied to Isis ... and I’m feeling a bit anxious.”
;o)
Yes, I believe that was the drug that Shot Doc carried around, for ILLary.
At the shooters age, Valium 10 mg would probably just make him sleepy all day.
Valium is not one of the so called newer antidepressants which seem to lead to violent behavior in younger patients.
I’ve been on Valium for Med procedures. You would rather go down and hug every country fan in that audience than hurt anyone.
There’s no reason for him to have 20+ guns up there unless he was selling them.
HE HAD NO NEED FOR ALL THOSE WEAPONS to commit this crime.
He used meticulous planning, so he was not off his rocker. He would not have brought that many weapons SOLELY for his evil deed.
Isn’t that what Hillary’s doctor kept in his hand for her?
Pathological gambling is found among people who take Diazepam, especially for people who are male, 10-19 old also take medication Mirapex, and have Restless leg syndrome. This review analyzes which people have Pathological gambling with Diazepam. It is created by eHealthMe based on reports of 52,916 people who have side effects when taking Diazepam from FDA , and is updated regularly.
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/gambling-addiction/
I posted in another thread yesterday that Paddock might be on Abilify. Gambling is a known side effect.
“Fast & Furious,” oddly enough I thought the same thing when I first heard that this happened. I still can’t help but wonder if some of these guns will trace back to F&F.
Now a stimulant, that is believable. You don't get enough sleep you can end up doing some crazy things. But this is a relaxer that will leave you mildly sleepy.
It would be like having a stiff belt. Unless you were very unusual it would not make you aggressive.
And it would leave you fuzzy enough that the amount of planing would have been difficult.
A study of 69 compulsive gamblers published in the American Journal of Psychiatry revealed the following results:
62 percent of the gamblers in the study suffered from a co-occurring psychiatric disorder
42 percent met the diagnostic criteria for a personality disorder
33 percent met the criteria for alcohol abuse or dependence
Study participants with dual diagnoses suffered more negative consequences as a result of their gambling than those who did not have a co-occurring mental illness or substance use disorder
>He used meticulous planning, so he was not off his rocker. He would not have brought that many weapons SOLELY for his evil deed.
That’s my belief. The FBI have set up false-buying schemes to bust people before. Either he was selling to ANTIFA or ISIS or drug dealers. ANTIFA is too stupid to do this. I would assume he was selling these rifles to ISIS or drug dealers, but drug dealers would probably want a place they controlled. Hence, I think he was selling to ISIS. Something went wrong, he got shot, and ISIS made it look like a lone wolf suicide. They locked his room, locked the adjoining room, then left from there. The cops busted in the suite and the buyers got away.
This is all one huge FBI embarrassment, and they won’t admit it.
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