Synthetic narcotic developed to treat addiction now prescribed as analgesic; deaths up 389 percent in five years
I still keep thinking of a nose spray or a mask or an inhaler. Something that goes right into the lungs and then the bloodstream. Wonder if Anna had anything like that available??
We don't even really know if she was first noticed as "not breathing" on her stomach...and/or if Daniel was found on his stomach.
If Daniel started to have trouble breathing, could Howard have handed him an inhaler??
Another interesting article!
"McKnelly, a professor of psychiatry, says he had the first methadone program west of the Mississippi, founded in 1966 in affiliation with the Kansas University Medical Center."
I worked at a 350 bed general hospial in Pittsburgh in 1968. The hospital administrator got the bright idea that he would start a program at the hospital to treat drug addicts. Would you believe young black addicts were placed in a six bed ward on the same floor as the general population of med-surg patients?
I remember having to administer methadone. None of us were formally trained to deal with these drug addicts. All this was new to us and we wondered what the $%#&@ administrator was thinking! (I was young and had no idea what a drug addict even was! That were NOT part of our nurses' training in those days.) Other med-surg patients on the floor were suddenly missing money, wallets, etc. from their rooms. I also seem to remember physical fighting among those drug addicts and/or their visitors.
I was working there for only a few months before I had to move from the area, so I don't know what ever happened to the "program."
From the article and explains alot of the ET/HKS love fest going on.
"Birkhead, by the way, is probably not on the good side of "Entertainment Tonight" anyway. He sued them several years ago, along with actress Ashley Judd, claiming they had maligned him over an article he had written about Judd in USA Today. The suit was settled out of court."