Connecticut continues to block public access to information on homicide investigations, according to the Connecticut News Times, an effort that began with concerns over the shooting in Sandy Hook by Adam Lanza in December of 2012. Such disclosure would “cause a lot of people to stop taking their medications,” said CT Assistant Attorney General Patrick B. Kwanashie, speaking at a Freedom of Information Act hearing called by Ablechild last year.
“Based on the State Police Report, no mental health records are available for Lanza after 2007 when he was 15-years old. Additionally, Lanza’s apparent primary psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Fox, surrendered his license in June of 2012, destroyed his patient records and move to New Zealand, making it impossible to obtain Lanza’s mental health records from the primary source.
“Whether Lanza had been prescribed psychiatric mind-altering drugs is extremely relevant to understanding his uncharacteristic violent behavior. Furthermore, it is important to remember that Connecticut Assistant Attorney General, Patrick B. Kwanashie, during the Ablechild FOIA hearing, revealed that the reason for not divulging the identity of the antidepressants he (Lanza) was taking was because it would “cause a lot of people to stop taking their medications.”
“Based on this information, it certainly seems that Lanza had been prescribed, at a minimum, antidepressants. However, Ablechild has been contacted by a mother whose young son also had been a patient of Dr. Paul Fox and, based on this child’s medication record, one could easily question whether Lanza’s mental health “treatment” included just antidepressants.
“For example, this unidentified ten-year old child began receiving “treatment” from Dr. Fox in 1998 for an apparent diagnosis of Asperger’s and, from what has been made public, Lanza also was diagnosed with Asperger’s at the age of five or six.
“Between January 1998 and March of 1999 (14 months), Dr. Fox prescribed to the unidentified ten-year old the following antidepressants: Celexa, Remeron, Effexor and Wellbutrin. Additionally, Fox prescribed Neurontin, an Antiepileptic; Buspar, an Antianxiety; Zyprexa, an Antipsychotic; and Adderall, an Amphetamine.”
As previously reported by The Times, friends of the family said he suffered from Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism. As early as age 10, Adam Lanza was taking medication, according to his former baby sitter, Ryan Kraft, now an aerospace engineer in Hermosa Beach.
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20131213041634/http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/20/nation/la-na-nn-hairstylist-adam-lanza-20121220
His psychiatrist moved to New Zealand… How convenient.
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“A year before the Sandy Hook school massacre, Adam Lanza, the shooter, apparently called in to an Oregon college radio station to talk about a chimpanzee that had gone on a rampage in Connecticut…”
–USA TODAY 8:31 p.m. EST January 16, 2014
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/16/adam-lanza-newtown-sandy-hook-radio-program/4505649/
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