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In reply to the discussion: Report: Suspected Las Vegas gunman was prescribed medication that can cause aggression [View all]jb5150
(1,178 posts)33. I have taken anti anxiety meds for a long time ...
Snapping at family members, getting into an argument with coworkers, a bar fight caused by some perceived slight ..... maybe.
But planning a calculated mass murder/suicide, months obtaining weapons and ammunition and electronic surveillance equipment, checking for upcoming events, researching the location looking for good vantage points, renting the hotel room in advance, bringing in and setting up weapons and surveillance equipment.
Not buying it ......
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Report: Suspected Las Vegas gunman was prescribed medication that can cause aggression [View all]
DonViejo
Oct 2017
OP
I'm a palliative care nurse. I have never seen anyone respond with aggressive behavior from valium.
mucifer
Oct 2017
#4
It might cause aggressive behavior in almost no one. People do sometimes become aggressive and
mucifer
Oct 2017
#13
I was dumbfounded when I saw which drug the article was claiming could make him
Eliot Rosewater
Oct 2017
#54
My biggest fear is they will take away our opiates when we need them most.
Eliot Rosewater
Oct 2017
#66
Benzodiazepines are the go-to anxiolytic in pretty much every healthcare setting.
Act_of_Reparation
Oct 2017
#9
thats just valium? this man wasn't drugged. something weird about how planned this was &
Sunlei
Oct 2017
#10
"warning - taking this medicine will lead to a long period of planning in order
NRaleighLiberal
Oct 2017
#12
Exactly. I could see a very very very rare person going off right after taking one,
uppityperson
Oct 2017
#25
So everyone taking Valium is gonna spend $20,000 on guns and take a year to plan a mass murder
Baclava
Oct 2017
#21
Ignore the multiple literal smoking guns on scene, here's the SMOKING PILL!!!!!
hatrack
Oct 2017
#35
From the original article - the drugs DON'T explain premeditated, long-planned behavior
Native
Oct 2017
#43
See? The whole problem has been diazepam all along. Nothing wrong with having so many GUNS!!111!1!!
PSPS
Oct 2017
#47
Valium is Diazepam and that was being given out like candy in the 1980s. n/t
PoliticAverse
Oct 2017
#53
He and the Australian guy are probably both mercenaries. Maybe connected to Erik Prince.
LuvLoogie
Oct 2017
#77
Valium? What a crock of shit... Then it is wondered why no one believes the media
Purveyor
Oct 2017
#81