[CholeraJoe]

Haven’t these cretins heard of NARCAN? Sounds like BS to me. There was supposedly his personal physician right there.

[tioga]

I wondered about that.......glad to hear you agree. although they might have tried it.

[xsmommy]

My SIL said the same thing, that it would have required Narcan to reverse it and that the MD was right there suppoedly.

[neverdem]

Haven’t these cretins heard of NARCAN? Sounds like BS to me. There was supposedly his personal physician right there.

Serotonin syndrome or respirtory arrest from opiate overdose lead the differential diagnosis, IMHO. Radio, WABC-AM in NYC, is reporting an oxycontin habit, Zoloft, Xanax and an injection of demerol by his doc prior to his demise, IIRC.

In March 2005, two such specialists, Dr. Edward W. Boyer of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Dr. Michael Shannon of Children’s Hospital Boston, noted that more than 85 percent of doctors were “unaware of the serotonin syndrome as a clinical diagnosis.”

In their review in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Boyer and Dr. Shannon cited a report based on calls to poison control centers around the country in 2002 showing 7,349 cases of serotonin toxicity and 93 deaths. (In 2005, the last year for which statistics are available, 118 deaths were reported.)