allegation here, it said that while he was at a secret service going away party he got drunk and wrecked a government vehicle. now in addition it said on one occasion he could not be reached when needed because he was passed out drunk in his hotel room. it said on several occasions overseas, on trips he was drinking on the job and would not bible not be able to perform his job because of his drinking. now in addition it talks about his prescribing practices that he prescribed medications when other physicians would not, including percocet used for pain medication and saying that he would at one time he game to a large quantity to a white house military office officer and through that office into a panic because they couldn t figure out where the drugs were but he had private stocks of controlled substances and that he handed out ambien, which is a sleep medication and provigil to
so there are are a lot of people struggling with these things. i will also say that sometimes these drugs are overprescribed for people for things that they shouldn t be described for for sadness or worries. a bad day and starting to pop the pills. exactly by people who shouldn t be prescribing them. and it s an easy way to get out of your funk nonaddictive sleep medication so commandly used. how do people know it s nonaddictive? how do you know? it s physiologically. if you don t sleep and you take it and then you can t go to sleep and you don t. psychologically people feel like they need it. i m saying physiologically as opposed to older sleep medication that make you go through withdraw and actually sometimes xanax and ativan are used for sleep those are addictive and not as and more of a problem than taking ambien. you deal with people who get into trouble on prescription drug and that s
so there are are a lot of people struggling with these things. i will also say that sometimes these drugs are overprescribed for people for things that they shouldn t be described for for sadness or worries. a bad day and starting to pop the pills. exactly by people who shouldn t be prescribing them. and it s an easy way to get out of your funk nonaddictive sleep medication so commandly used. how do people know it s nonaddictive? how do you know? it s physiologically. if you don t sleep and you take it and then you can t go to sleep and you don t. psychologically people feel like they need it. i m saying physiologically as opposed to older sleep medication that make you go through withdraw and actually sometimes xanax and ativan are used for sleep those are addictive and not as and more of a problem than taking ambien. you deal with people who get into trouble on prescription drug and that s
home. they do not find any information note worthy to this investigation. we know they re looking into a variety of different things. we know he was on many different medications, antidepressants, taking the drug ambien, a sleep medication. and you also have to remember, he was being evaluated for ptsd, not officially diagnosed. all will be taken into consideration, wolf, as investigators try to understand what led up to the shooting. one interesting thing that they will be looking into is a verbal altercation that happened just before the shooting. they will try to understand how that played into this, if it might have been an escalating point leading up to the shooting. and they have identified the three someters soldiers shot and killed by lopez, right? reporter: wolf, i want to read these names. they have learned them. timothy owens, carlos rodriguez, danny ferguson. and we know something about mr.
have to look into the background of mental illness. that s what investigators are doing as they try to understand the motive, the reason behind the shooting. we do know that they will be looking at an altercation, a verbal altercation that took place prior to the shooting that could have played factor. they re also looking into his history of mental illness, looking into the variety of medications that he was taking. he was taking the drug ambien, a sleep medication, also taking antidepressants, and what he being evaluated for ptsd, for post-traumatic stress disorder, though he was not officially diagnosed with ptsd. want you to know, though, investigators say they are looking at all angles in this to try to understand why this happened. take a look. at this point, we have not yet ruled out anything whatsoever, and we are committed to letting the investigation run its course, but we have, again, no indications at this time of any links to terrorist organizations of any type, either n