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Anxiety Treatment Online - Stephen Paddock, the man behind America's worst ever mass shooting, was prescribed Valium months before the massacre
In the wake of the devastating shooting in , it has emerged that gunman Stephen Paddock was taking diazepam, the generic form of Valium.
The revelation has sparked a debate surrounding the powerful anti-anxiety medication and its side effects. 
For the majority of users who take the medication under close supervision, side effects are akin to : drowsiness, dizziness, memory issues, and even sexual dysfunction.
However, in some rare cases the drug can trigger suicidal thoughts, aggressiveness, panic attacks, impulsive thoughts, and a lack of empathy. 
On Wednesday, as the Twittersphere rushed to attribute Paddock's shooting spree to his medication, doctors cautioned that it is highly unlikely - if not impossible - for diazepam alone to drive a person to shoot more than 500 people. 
But the debate has thrown the anti-anxiety medication into the spotlight - with many questioning the regulation of prescriptions.
'Aggression is one of the side effects in rare cases,' Dr Daniel Amen, a psychiatrist at Amen Clinics in Chicago, told Daily Mail Buy Xanax 1mg Online. 
Dr Amen, who does 'not a fan' of benzodiazepines to treat psychiatric disorders, admitted that it is not common side effect - the common side effects are drowsiness, grogginess.
'But like alcohol,' he said, 'for the vulnerable brain it can cause aggression.'
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Joanna Gedzior, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Fresno Medical Education Program of the University of California, San Francisco, warns many doctors will be driven to prescribe more of a psychotropic drug if their patient's symptoms are not easing. 
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'We have to be very careful about this and ask, "Is it something I'm giving the patient that's causing this?",' Dr Gedzior told the New York Times. 
Diazepam is part of a family of drugs called benzodiazepines, which were first developed by a chemist in New Jersey in the 1960s.
They all act as tranquilizers to treat anxiety by dulling down the GABA receptors in the pre-frontal lobe. These receptors are thought to be overactive in people with clinical anxiety.

As such, targeting them produces a calming effect.
The drugs can also act a muscle relaxant for pain.
They can be very effective in the short-term.