The reason cough medicine is so hard to get anymore is because it became a party drug. Kids would drink it by the bottle.
The local drug pusher has been replaced by your HMO and pharmacutical companies.
Unless the anthrax scientist was compromized by some other ailment like ALS or similar neuromuscular weakness, it's unlikely that anthing short of a whole bottle of oxycodone would have done too much more than made him throw up. If he managed to keep it down then I suppose. That's not as easy as it sounds though.
I still find it really odd that a bio-weapons researcher would use Tylenol to kill himself. That's like the head chef at Benni Hanna's cutting his throat with a spoon.
“it’s unlikely that anthing short of a whole bottle of oxycodone would have done too much more than made him throw up”
Maybe he kept it down - or maybe he aspirated vomit.
It’s my understanding the acetametiphine poisoning takes a few days to work it’s magic.
So something else must have stopped his breathing.
Unless I’m reading this wrong - did he die the same day he took the pills?
“I still find it really odd that a bio-weapons researcher would use Tylenol to kill himself. That’s like the head chef at Benni Hanna’s cutting his throat with a spoon.”
He was a brilliant man - but also depressed and full of despair.
Then it becomes very difficult to understand what goes through someone’s mind.
I know a young man who tried to do this at the beginning of the summer - with tylenol pm.
Luckily he was found before major damage was done.
I thought he was a happy kid.
People can do strange things when they allow darkness to take over their minds.