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Methadone emerges as new killer
LA Times ^ | 26 February 2007 | Charles Proctor

Posted on 02/26/2007 4:42:22 AM PST by shrinkermd

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To: shrinkermd
It is an ironic turn in the history of methadone

Doesn't anyone speak English anymore?

It is neither ironic nor novel that narcotic overdoses cause death.

21 posted on 02/26/2007 8:01:03 AM PST by Jim Noble
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To: Hildy
The first account is that Anna was screaming to Howard, THIS IS YOUR FAULT, which would suggest he was the one to give Daniel the drug.

Not necessarily. It might just as well suggest that she was stoned out of her mind and in total denial that her son was a drug addict. Maybe she raged at Stern because he did not give Daniel some additional drug that in her addled mind might have counteracted other drugs in his system. Maybe she raged at Stern because she knew she had basically killed her son by driving him nuts, turning him onto drugs, etc etc and I don't even want to think what else.

I wonder what if any drug(s) HKStern regularly ingeseted. Trying to "manage" a family of addicts might have driven him to join them because he sure couln't get their lives in any semblance of order no matter how he tried. If indeed he tried.

I don't like him but find him less obnoxious than other players in this tawdry drama. If you saw him in the San Francisco gay bar when Anna and her illustrious doctor Kapur the Prescriber were nuzzling, he did put that cautionary hand on her shoulder and tell her not to go too far. I suspect that's all anyone could have done. She was clearly a full-out drug addict, sex addict, and possibly an alcoholic as well. Perhaps Stern did the best he could to keep her out of jail and off suicide watch for years. She was incredibly self-destructive and destroyed her son too with the horrible miserable sleasy tawdry lifestyle she dragged the poor kid through. I mean, she actually dragged him along to photo shoots when she was posing in next to nothing....practically guaranteed to make the poor kid question his own sexuality.

And by the way, what was she doing in the Gay Pride parade? She was a big favorite of gay guys.....they love that exaggerated faux fem stuff.

So, what sympathies I can drum up go to Stern who'd been trying to provide some sort of anchor for her for years. Reminds me of the wonderful old French film, Jules and Jim, story of a woman with a husband and a lover falling all over themselves to live up to her outrageous demands. When she died they were "overcome with relief." I suspect Stern feels that way too.

22 posted on 02/26/2007 8:25:40 AM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

I heard they caught him with pictures of underage oatmeal on his computer.


23 posted on 02/26/2007 8:30:05 AM PST by gopheraj
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To: eeriegeno; Rte66
There were 7 drugs in Daniel's system when he died: methadone, Lexapro, Zoloft, benadryl, pseudoephedrine, Ambien and trace amounts of another unidentified substance, which Wecht wouldn't name because he didn't want to "embarrass the family."

What could possibly embarrass this sleazy family? Must have been some AIDS drug. You think? I doubt there was ever a little boy in the world with a shoddier concept of women, poor kid.

24 posted on 02/26/2007 8:42:20 AM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: laotzu

Brimley? I cannot find an obit online. Wikipedia article fails to report his demise. He was born in 1934, so he'd be 72-73, not that old. I cannot check with our mutual friends, because THEY are dead.


25 posted on 02/26/2007 8:45:50 AM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: eeriegeno
I wonder if he can spell 'homocide'?????????

Um, if you're gonna go off on a spelling rant, you might want to be sure you have "homicide" correct. ;)
26 posted on 02/26/2007 8:46:44 AM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Veto!; laotzu; Hildy

Wilford Brimley is still alive and kickin'. (I have no reliable information regarding how high he can kick.)


27 posted on 02/26/2007 8:49:19 AM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Veto!
"What's with the photo of Brimley?"

He fathered Anna Nicole's child.

28 posted on 02/26/2007 8:52:08 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: Veto!

He appears on commercials periodically...he does one for diabetes treatment for example!


29 posted on 02/26/2007 9:13:00 AM PST by mdmathis6 (Save the Republic, don't vote for IVY LEAGUERS(red ribbons or blue ribbons))
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To: Rte66
I was in law enforcement for 23 years with many of them working in drug enforcement. When I retired I owned and operated a drug and alcohol testing company working all over the U.S. The first thing I take issue with is the time of producing the results, it does,t take weeks, hair testing takes days, testing the urine is faster, overnight. I can assure you that they have and have had the results. When finished, levels of drug, alcohol, etc will be established, not known if that will be released or not.

My problem with the 'live in' with her is that he could give her what he wanted as all he wanted to to was keep her happy ---or---do away with her, he had the drugs to do the job too.

I am interested in seeing the levels, if given of drugs.

Toby
30 posted on 02/26/2007 10:04:16 AM PST by gulfcoast6
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

And he takes drugs to control his "Diabeettaasss".


31 posted on 02/26/2007 10:23:56 AM PST by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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To: laotzu

nah, he's still around, he's doing diabetes commercials now.


32 posted on 02/26/2007 10:26:41 AM PST by absolootezer0 (stop repeat offenders - don't re-elect them!)
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To: gulfcoast6

I bet you've seen allot.

I don't think I could handle what you've had to deal with.


33 posted on 02/26/2007 10:27:37 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: gulfcoast6

That's the medical examiner, who has to run a lot of things through others and compare to witness statements, and so forth. If there is something that's a red flag, or even a *pink* one, he needs to alert someone in law enforcement.

As it stands now, both deaths are drug-related as to the cause, but unknown as to the manner - i.e., no crime has been committed. Not homicide, not suicide. Perhaps will be ruled accidental.

Depending on the tox findings, there may need to be further questioning of someone - docs, live-in, witnesses at hotel. There is also the complication of having a variety of police jurisdictions. Otherwise, Perper will probably just do another presser and announce them.

Seminole tribal police have already announced there was no foul play in Anna Nicole's death. At least the Bahamians are investigating Daniel's.


34 posted on 02/26/2007 10:35:43 AM PST by Rte66
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To: Holicheese

At least he doesn't say "dye-uh-beet-teez." That always sounds to me like a African pigmy tribe or some kind of insects.

He was killed by the *Dyabiti's.*


35 posted on 02/26/2007 10:39:01 AM PST by Rte66
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To: Rte66

I didn't realize he was dead.


36 posted on 02/26/2007 10:44:47 AM PST by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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To: shrinkermd

Unless Anna Nicole was using methdone for heroin addiction, that flaming faggot Indian MD who prescribed it should be thrown in jail.


37 posted on 02/26/2007 10:50:15 AM PST by montag813
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To: shrinkermd
In recent years, methadone has proved lethal to a growing number of patients or addicts who use it in conjunction with prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax or, in the case of addicts, illegal narcotics such as cocaine.

Sounds like a self resolving problem to me. Let's see you don't want to die from drug abuse don't become a junkie. If you become a junkie then enjoy yourself, but don't expect the taxpayers to foot the bill for your bad health.

Sometimes users swallow methadone before or after they "puff," when they seek to get high by slowly inhaling the chemicals from an aerosol can.

Oh the poor victims it's obvously the fault of methadone and aerosols, they're just forced to do it. Why just the other day I saw an aerosol can cruising the street looking for someone to make high. (I hate junkies)

38 posted on 02/26/2007 10:52:04 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
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He isn't - I was giving a "for instance" with that pronunciation that I don't like. I was *pretending.*


39 posted on 02/26/2007 12:41:57 PM PST by Rte66
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To: montag813

Dr Kapoor believes it was a sound medical decision and has stated that in the media.


40 posted on 02/26/2007 12:43:20 PM PST by Rte66
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