Guest Post by Paul Joseph Watson
Las Vegas massacre gunman Stephen Paddock was taking a drug linked to violent outbursts in yet another example of a mass shooter being on a pharmaceutical medication that causes aggressive behavior.
According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Paddock “was prescribed an anti-anxiety drug in June that can lead to aggressive behavior”.
The drug in question – diazepam – more commonly known as its brand name Valium – was prescribed by Henderson physician Dr. Steven Winkler on June 21 and Paddock purchased 50 10-milligram diazepam tablets from a Walgreens store in Reno on the same day. Paddock was also previously prescribed the same drug in 2016.
The article cites DrugAbuse.com, which warns that diazepam can trigger “aggressive behavior” and “psychotic experiences,” which can be amplified by alcohol consumption.
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“If somebody has an underlying aggression problem and you sedate them with that drug, they can become aggressive,” said Dr. Mel Pohl, chief medical officer of the Las Vegas Recovery Center. “It can disinhibit an underlying emotional state. … It is much like what happens when you give alcohol to some people … they become aggressive instead of going to sleep.”
A 2015 study published in World Psychiatry found that teens convicted of homicide were 45 per cent more likely to kill during time periods when they were on benzodiazepines.
However, Dr. Michael First points out that Paddock’s attack was obviously pre-meditated, carefully planned, and could not have occurred on a whim, although he acknowledges the reason behind why Paddock was prescribed diazepam may explain “why he did what he did”.
As we previously highlighted, virtually every major mass shooter was taking some form of SSRI or other pharmaceutical drug at the time of their attack, including Columbine killer Eric Harris, ‘Batman’ shooter James Holmes, Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof and Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza.
As the website SSRI Stories profusely documents, there are literally hundreds of examples of mass shootings, murders and other violent episodes that have been committed by individuals on psychiatric drugs over the past three decades.
Pharmaceutical giants who produce drugs like Zoloft, Prozac and Paxil spend around $2.4 billion dollars a year on direct-to-consumer television advertising every year. By running negative stories about prescription drugs, networks risk losing tens of millions of dollars in ad revenue, which is undoubtedly one of the primary reasons why the connection is habitually downplayed or ignored entirely.
This is the first time I have ever heard of Valium being a trigger for anything other than chilling out or sleeping. This sounds like BS to me.
it can happen,
I can testify,
After taking the same pills for about a week, I completely lost my composure and did things completely out of character. I became aggressive, which is not my nature.
I stopped taking these things, as the side effects are worse than the condition they address.
All pills that alter brain chemistry are inherently dangerous.
After I ingest Valium…………
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The source, The Las Vegas Review Journal, is questionable at best. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/09/477423367/more-journalists-leaving-las-vegas-review-journal-after-sale-to-billionaire
Holy cow, show me a source that isn’t questionable.
But NPR is absolutely infallible? Hahahahahahahaha. That’s a joke, right?
You know what anxiety is? It’s your conscience telling you that what you are doing is wrong or that where you are isn’t a good place or that the people you are surrounded by haven’t got good intentions. Anxiety is like pain, hunger, being tired or any of the normal human feelings associated with a need to adjust your physical/spiritual/emotional world.
By suppressing these feelings chemically you aren’t fixing the root causes. There was a time when people would take amphetamines in order to curb their hunger if they wanted to lose weight, but all that did was turn them into speed freaks.
The people who live in this country are anxious because something is wrong. Chemically altering your perceptions doesn’t make things right, it just makes you less able to deal with a reality that is bad for you.
The problems we have run so deep, the lies we are told are so ubiquitous, the solutions so ineffective that things are only going to escalate until we descend into full blown chaos.
And I called the pharma connection day 1, not that I believe any of this story.
Once again typical Progressive nonsense at work. Progressive polices have caused 95% of the BS that is going on in this country. These policies have destroyed Western values and left us with utter destruction. Whenever these horrific events happen they immediately point the finger at something else. Be it gun’s, politics,Trump you name it. America has been propagandized and lied to for so long,and so often. That most people just nod their heads,and agree that something must be done,and it is always the progressive way or nothing. My faith that the masses will wake up and see the real cause of this dwindles by the day. Progressive policies do not need to be driven under the wet rock they came from. They need to be eradicated…..
Ding! Best post of the week Bilco.
Lombardo’s public statement about possible radicalization of Paddock is another suspicion arousing thing related to this case (something the FBI immediately ruled out FWIW).
Compared to other shooters whose entire life had been exposed by this time, there is actually very little being disclosed or discussed about Paddock.
BTW, audio of Sheriff Lombardo’s statement is hard to find, ignored by all MSM sources, and rapidly becoming more difficult to find on the internet, find and listen to it while you can.
FWIW, I’m not suggesting any conspiracy stuff, just raising a question about what we are being allowed to know.
http://Www.twitter.com/thomaswictor (an interesting dude, albeit a pro-military, pro 3D chess guy) theorizes that the shooter – raised on the lam by his FBI-top-ten-wanted father – had been taught how to fly under society’s radar. Wictor thinks the shooter wanted to be true to his old man’s criminal history.
As to the Valium theory- he couldn’t amass the hardware and do the planning necessary without having extensive periods where he’d been free of any chemically-induced propensity to violence. He either had a motivating ideology or he was a true psychopath (evil).
Brovo Bilco , the mass of white Anglo Saxons will never bring themselves to Admit it is Jews and Jewish interest that are doing this evil.They think Jews are God’s chosen people which is one of the biggest lies ever told. Thur the Debt Monetary counterfeiting scam they have been able to buy the media and other major assets to brainwash / control white Americans and they hate us as Satan does .I don’t think this will change.
HSF is on to something, I think.
People believe you can’t think or function well on benzos. I can tell you that is wrong thinking. SOME people may not be able to function well on them.
I was prescribed them for over ten years for insomnia after other sleeping meds stopped working. You hit a wall with any of these types of meds and have to increase dosage and escalate up the ladder to stronger and stonger benzos.
Took me a while to work up the courage to stop taking them. I knew enough research them before stopping. I spent hours and hours reading about them. I finally found an integrative psychiatrist who helped me wean off of them. It takes months and sometimes years to wean off. The list of withdrawal symptoms is a long one but the most common are increased anxiety, insomnia, nausea, diarrhea, panic attacks, vision problems, gait problems, paranoia depersonalization, derealization, and this is the short list.
http://prescription-drug.addictionblog.org/what-your-doctors-or-alexander-zaitchik-wont-tell-you-about-benzo-withdrawal/
Benzos are so addictive it only take around 3 weeks or less to become completely addicted.
I was almost done withdrawing from them when I had my mastectomy. What I was on was far stronger than Valium. They prescribed 5 mg Valium as a muscle relaxer to help with muscle spasms. I took these for several months before weaning off of those. I actually feel it was helpful as the longer you take to wean off, the easier the withdrawal is.
So in light of this information, just some pure speculation here:
Assume he was a leftist Trump hater. Bracken posted a pic of him at an anti-Trump rally. Now maybe he was approached by someone who encouraged him to do this deed as a way to punish Trump supporters. This causes underlying anxiety issues to get worse. Valium is prescribed. We don’t know whether there were refills but assuming he started taking it in 2016, most likely, there were. The are not controlled like opioids are, you can get a script with as many refills as the doc thinks necessary.
He hits the wall with them. He would still be able to function, most likely but anxiety is increased and insomnia becomes an issue. Based on the pictures of the hotel room, it doesn’t look like he was all that together at the time of the shooting, or else, someone who was there with him either failed to set up the room to look more believable, or just didn’t care to as they figured it would never be an issue.
I think there might have been a perfect storm of leftist mental disorder, anxiety, and the possibility of being involved with some unknown individual who may have been “helping” him. He became the patsy for what may have been a FF.
We will probably never know and this is probably not going to be the end of this type of massacre until more gun control has been passed.
Just my 2 cents.
Oh, btw, I have been off of them completely for about a year and have conquered my sleeping issues, as well, thanks to my integrative doc. She was quite a blessing. Very few doctors have any idea how to help someone who wants to stop taking them.
Valium makes you take a nap. What would you expect from PJW though, who says there is no evidence of a Jewish element behind the new world order , and Alex Jones, who says shit like the Chinese run Hollywood and Saudi Arabia runs the Federal Reserve.
Valium helps you sleep..until it doesn’t.