Remember when I said that Stephen Kazmierczak meds had nothing to do with the shooting? I stand corrected…sort of.
It turns out that Kazmierczak was on three drugs, Prozac, Xanax, and Ambien. Prozac is an anti-depressant which as I stated before should have still been in his system at the time that he stopped taking it. Xanax is an anti-anxiety drug kind of like Valium. I’ve been prescribed Xanax before. After taking one the only thing I wanted to do was sleep, so I don’t think it was the Xanax. Ambien is a drug that is supposed to help you sleep. In a lot of cases it does the exact opposite at best.
A few years ago there was a member of my family who was prescribed Ambien for sleep. Whenever they took an Ambien to try and sleep they would end up being up for hours in a stupor like state. It got to the point where I didn’t want to be around them when they were on Ambien and I was worried for their own safety. Luckily when I expressed my concerns they realized what Ambien was doing to them and stopped taking it. In my personal opinion I think Ambien is a danger and should be taken off the market.
There have been instances where people arrested for car accidents have claimed that they were on Ambien and didn’t even remember that they were driving. Can I draw the conclusion that Ambien caused Kazmierczak to on his killing spree? Logically, no. Only by anecdotal evidence would I try and make that conclusion. However I don’t think it should be ruled out.
(Trench Reynolds blogs about school violence at TheTrenchcoat Chronicles)
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackFYI: His girlfriend said he stopped taking prozac three weeks before the rampage…the half life of prozac is long, but it would be out of his system in three weeks.
Ambien might lead to somulence a couple of hours after taking it, but not paranoia and repeated actions over days.
The guy was mentally ill, having a psychotic break, but it was not recognized.
He needed Haldol and hospitalization.
Thank you Nancy for your comment and I agree with you. Like I said in a previous post I do believe there was an underlying mental illness that went undiagnosed. However I wouldn’t be surprised if Ambien had some hand in what happened.
If you review the FDA adverse event database for Ambien (which is easily accessible and clearly presented on the website http://www.fdable.com/ ) you will find exhaustive tabulation of FDA reported serious adverse events, among which are very common reports of hallucinations, sleepwalking, sleepdriving, and bizarre behavior associated with Ambien as the primary cause. It seems that in many cases a strange characteristic somewhat unique to Ambien is that it seems able to blur the differentiation between hallucinatory/nightmare sleep states and normal wakeful behavior.
Keep the investigators searching. Try not to make premature conclusions. He didn’t shoot at the University of Illinois where he was living. He traveled 175 miles to NIU for a reason. There was a reason. It might already be known. I’ve noticed how the people in charge have been unnecesarilly slowly releasing information. The neck up photo released first when they had they had the whole photo showing the tattoos that wasn’t released until later. They interviewed the girlfriend the first day but didn’t release her statements until days later. What sent him to NIU?
Mark Ames, author of “Going Postal” provides a well-researched and insightful explanation of why workplace and school shootings happen. In almost all cases, bullying is involved. Who bullied Kazmiercsak? They probably already know. There’s a reason why they don’t want to tell you bullying was the cause. That cause leads to even bigger indictment against our modern mutated slave society. I hope you read the book.
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