I know of several people who have had trouble with Ambien, especially women who took it too late at night and tried to drive with it. Since Ambien has some halucinogenic affects and is ONLY supposed to be taken while you are going to be sleeping at least 8 hours, if you accidentally take it say at 3am to 6am then if you have an alarm and get up at 6 or 7 you are still going to be halucinating in a dream state until 8 hours after 3am or 6 am while you are trying to drive your car to work or whatever you have to do that day.
But, when you combine something like this kind of drug with mood altering drugs almost anything is possible then during those times you are awake.
So, for someone like myself that knows first hand from talking with others about what mood altering drugs like the Prosacs and other do combined with the halucinogeic properties of Ambien, likely what I'm thinking is that the shooter likely thought he was playing a video game and didn't realize until people were dead that he was in real life. At that point he had not choice but to shoot himself because he couldn't live with what he had done not knowing it was real.
This is why there are absolutely NO circumstances where I would choose to take a mood altering drug or Ambien. First of all I'm 6 foot 5 inches tall. And even when I tried to take Coreg (a heart medicine) it made me so crazy I felt I was dangerous when I took it because of all the crazy ideas and halucinations it put into my mind. So, I chose not to take even Coreg for my heart out of compassion for my family and anyone I know or don't even though it might reduce my lifespan by not taking that drug. Quality of life. Without quality of life people don't stay alive very long including you or me.
However, people who haven't been to college or studied this kind of stuff and are used to just obeying orders are going to wind up dead in cases like this along with a whole lot of other people.
Was he to blame for his actions? Probably not. Were the people who gave him these drugs to blame?
Yes and no. Likely our whole medical system is to blame more than anything else.
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Claiming that you know first hand from talking with others is fundamentally flawed. You know second hand because you heard it from others. First hand would be if you personally had experiences with the drugs.
I do not wish to have first hand experience with mood altering drugs or ambien for the same reason I don't want to try Heroin either. I personally consider them all very dangerous. That is my opinion.
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