The drug that you absolutely cannot inject without getting an abscess is chloral hydrate. Very, very irritating as cloral hydrate is a byproduct of water clorination believe it or not.
My guess is a bit like clorax!
At one point I thought that maybe HKS or KE just stabbed her with a shot of cloral hydrate if they wanted to keep her knocked out and it abscessed.
Or...she was throwing up and couldn’t keep anything on her stomach and she injected herself with cloral hydrate possibly.
“Or...she was throwing up and couldn’t keep anything on her stomach and she injected herself with cloral hydrate possibly.”
I agree, everything points to CH as being the stomach irritant. However, IMO, I doubt ANS was ever well enough coordinated once she got to the Seminole nation to be injecting herself. She was often seen falling and staggering by several descriptions.
So, the way I see it, IF it were no longer “the flu” - if it EVER was the flu and not a mis-identified “abrupt methadone withdrawal”, and IF she were taking or BEING GIVEN enough chloral hydrate by mouth to try to handle the withdrawal symptoms that were NOT being handled by the huge amounts of clondine and the benzodiazepines, THEN, from everything I’ve Googled up on chloral hydrate, ANS would have had quite a significant stomach irritation.
Thats quite a few “if’s.” However, none of them are far fetched given that ANS likely had EITHER an abrupt or very rapid methadone withdrawal. See post #7351 and link at bottom. Then, according to that methadone withdrawal scenario website, I’d think what you’re proposing seems very, very likely.
“Chloral Hydrate Adverse Effects: Gastrointestinal: The most frequent adverse effect of chloral hydrate is gastrointestinal irritation, manifested by nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pain.”
http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/methadone/section9.html#detox