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NYC 6-year-old dies after dad mistakes methadone for cough medicine
foxnews.com (NY Post) ^
| February 03, 2012
Posted on 02/10/2012 7:34:33 AM PST by rawhide
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posted on
02/10/2012 7:34:37 AM PST
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
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posted on
02/10/2012 7:37:50 AM PST
by
svcw
(Only difference between Romney & BH is one thinks he will be god & other one thinks he already is.)
To: rawhide
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posted on
02/10/2012 7:37:50 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: massgopguy
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posted on
02/10/2012 7:41:43 AM PST
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
The headline made me mad at the Dad. The story makes my heart break for him.
To: massgopguy
It’s not. They arrested the mother.
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posted on
02/10/2012 7:43:24 AM PST
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
To: massgopguy; rawhide
Sounds like it would be mom’s fault
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posted on
02/10/2012 7:44:54 AM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: rawhide
There was a story a few years back where a mother kept her methadone in her child’s sippy cup. The child drank it. The results were entirely predictable and sadly tragic.
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posted on
02/10/2012 7:47:29 AM PST
by
Drew68
To: svcw
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posted on
02/10/2012 7:54:59 AM PST
by
wiggen
(The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
To: rawhide
Another great argument for legalizing drugs — NOT!
To: rawhide
147th street in the Bronx?
No surprises there.
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posted on
02/10/2012 7:56:54 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: rawhide
Can someone explain how legalizing drugs would stop this from happening
Methadone is for replacement for a Heroin addiction Big L libertarians tell us it's our right to use drugs but never look at the consequences
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posted on
02/10/2012 7:57:26 AM PST
by
Popman
(America is squandering its wealth on riotous living, war, and welfare.)
To: Popman
She wouldn’t need to hide it in a Dayquil bottle?
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posted on
02/10/2012 8:00:08 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
To: rawhide
When methadone was first starting to be prescribed for heroin addicts in the early 70's there was a rash of children's deaths when the kids mistakenly found their parents methadone in the fridge.
Because of this most meth clinics in NYC started mixing their methadone with an orange food coloring in the belief it would be easier for children, and others to identify the methadone for what it really was.
Turned out there were even more children's deaths because of this since the methadone now looked just like orange juice.
BTW: They still use the orange food coloring to this day.
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posted on
02/10/2012 8:03:05 AM PST
by
Larry381
("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.")
To: rawhide
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posted on
02/10/2012 8:09:15 AM PST
by
iowamark
(The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves)
To: Popman
Methadone is for replacement for a Heroin addiction ...It's also used as a pain reliever.
I know a guy whose wife has a variety of medical problems causing severe pain, for which she is prescribed methadone.
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posted on
02/10/2012 8:10:10 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Larry381
It would be better and more cost effective just to eliminate the addicts.
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posted on
02/10/2012 8:14:49 AM PST
by
Mashood
To: Popman
Can someone explain how legalizing drugs would stop this from happeningCan someone please explain why the illegalization of (some) drugs didn't prevent this from happening?
Methadone is for replacement for a Heroin addiction Big L libertarians tell us it's our right to use drugs but never look at the consequences
And rat poison is used to kill rats. Yet I'm sure that there are some idiots out there who do stupid things with it, like storing it in their pantries, where it can be mistaken for, say, flour.
The consequences of the War on (some) Drugs - both in terms of the loss of human life, and the erosion of our civil liberties - are worse than the consequences of legalization would be.
Regards,
A "Big L" Libertarian
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
02/10/2012 8:38:32 AM PST
by
stuartcr
("In this election year of 12, how deep into their closets will we delve?")
To: Popman; afraidfortherepublic
So presumably, when you hear about a child getting killed due to misuse of a firearm, you use this to argue that guns should be banned?
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posted on
02/10/2012 8:41:40 AM PST
by
Sloth
(If a tax break counts as "spending" then every time I don't rob a bank should be a "deposit.")
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