adam lanza

did this killing have anything to do with psychiatric prescription medications taken by adam lanza…

Who is Adam Lanza? …although I will have Googled him and got back to you by the time you reply :confused:

adam lanza was the newtown shooter…it was a terrible slaughter

Let’s look at the situation here: Crazy person does crazy thing.

I know that is somewhat simplified, but does that basically describe this situation in particular and a lot of others in general?

Now, crazy people represent a population that is heavily enriched for taking various psychiatric drugs. It veers on tautology, but it’s worth emphasizing that these drugs exist to treat symptoms that manifest themselves in the overall phenotype of “crazy”.

So, it makes sense that the Venn Diagram between “crazy people who do crazy things” and “crazy people being medicated for being crazy” would start to approach a perfect circle. It’s easy from there to make the correlation a causation. That’s wrong, but easy enough to do.

I’m reminded of the young boy who killed his grandparents a few years back. Zoloft was blamed for the killings. I’ve had Zoloft before and never wanted to kill anybody. Perhaps some regretful marriage of drugs and character might best describe Adam Lanza’s actions. It’s too easy just to blame the drugs.

It’s a possibility that drugs exacerbated an already existing problem.
Lanza’s home situation and his mom’s paranoid gun nuttery
must also be considered. If so many guns were not in the house,
the home less stressful, and exposure to violence were not so
culturally prevalent, those kids might be alive today.

Meds don’t kill people, people kill people - you know there’s much more to it than that Turtle, right?

magsj
yes people kill people…but it has been shown that certain prescribed medicines can trigger suicide…there is a warning on Prozac… and maybe homicide may be triggered in certain persons…that’s what my psychoanalyst believes…but the bottom line is to know exactly what happened there…we still do not know his medical history…without that the diagnosis is questionable…