Perhaps the paramedics wouldn't allow him to go along in the ambulance if he was as distraught as they said? I also thought he arrived either at the same time or just after the first paramedics. There were too many others in the room (police, etc) for Howard to have gotten rid of any drugs, IMO.
was there police at that point? Paramedics left with the patient.
Agreed on that - no getting rid of anything after the cops got there - and they got there first.