Posted on 07/03/2012 4:53:30 PM PDT by opentalk
Former Commerce Secretary John Bryson tested positive for the sleeping aid Ambien, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office.
Prosecutors announced Tuesday that they have decided not to file criminal charges against Bryson in connection with two alleged hit-and-run crashes in the San Gabriel Valley last month.(snip)His tests showed “low end of therapeutic levels” and a criminalist could not say if it was a factor in the collisions. Both treating doctors agree he was suffering confusion following a seizure and crashed as a result, according to the memo.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
“ate an entire carton of strawberry ice cream and then went back to bed.”
This is a very common problem with Ambien. I ballooned up to 345 pounds while I was on that Cr@p! I’d get up in the morning, and find I’d eaten a whole loaf of bread during the night.
One morning I woke up with bruises all over my body! I freaked. Suspecting some sort of cardio-vascular problem, I walked into my doc;s office with no appointment. I was quite frightened!. He could find nothing wrong. About halfway through the appt, I realized I had fallen, and thrashed around whilst sleepwalking. I strung a string across my hallway, and found I was somnambulating evry night. I switched to Ativan. No further problems.
I once washed a cat under the influence of Ambien.
Not likely. There have been several cases around here with similar circumstances. In one of the cases, a lady drove right through a storefront while sleep-driving on Ambien. No charges have been filed in any of the cases.
That is one of the most ill-conceived, uniformed statements that I have read in quite some time. Do we resort to the level of those on DU just for the sake of racing to the bottom?
245 pounds, not 345.
yep, I agree. Why would the scumbag resign for ambien sleep drivin’.
I feel sorry for people that feel the need to go to a doctor and get A DRUG to get to sleep.
Sure, I have my bad nights, like a couple of days ago when I got 4 hours of sleep. Guess what, the world didn’t end - I made it though work just fine...just went to bed a bit earlier last night.
I have some simple rules. If I cannot get to sleep, I simply lay in the bed and fake it. Sure it’s boring and seems to last forever, but if the room is dark I will get at least a few hours of sleep and the other hours in the dark room seems to have essentially the same effect as sleep.
Ambien seems to be one of the most dangerous drugs in existence, it AMAZES me that ANYONE would take it, for ANY reason.
one of the first things they ask a person in the emergency room is...are you taking any medication? This scumbag tried to use the seizure coverup crap to hide his probable ambien addiction [probably for recreation purposes]...[from WP 6/21/12...
commerce officials reached Thursday did not deny that Bryson’s health was a factor in his decision, noting that Bryson suffered a “complex partial seizure,” based on initial tests by his neurologists. Such seizures can cause abnormal electrical activity in an isolated part of the brain that would allow a person to continue performing simple tasks, but leave the person unable to complete more complex activities, neurological experts said.
“I once washed a cat under the influence of Ambien.”
The cat probably didn’t know the difference, and thankfully, the cat never got in the driver’s seat. That’s why it’s so dangerous.
As I understand it, the sequence of media discussion went something like this:
"Did you hear? The Commerce Secretary was in 2 hit-and-run accidents! He must have been drunk as a skunk!! Or maybe on drugs!"
"No. No. That would be bad. He couldn't have been drunk because ... well ... that would be bad. He ... ahhh ... he had a ... a medical problem."
"A medical problem? That sounds weird. What kind of medical problem?"
"Well ... it was ... ummm ... it was ... a seizure. Yeah. He had a seizure."
"Oh. Okay. If you say so. But wait a minute. The blood tests say that he had ambien in his system. So, maybe it was a drug thing after all? I thought you said he had a seizure?"
"Oh, sure. Happens all the time. You know, people get up and eat stuff during the night when they take ambien. It's weird but it happens."
"Okay. But you said he had a seizure."
"Ummmm. Yeah."
"So ambien causes seizures?"
"I told you! People eat loaves of bread without waking up!!"
"But that's not a seizure. You definitely said he had a seizure. Now you say he was on ambien."
"Yes. That's the story. Now shut up. We know what you did in 1982. We have pictures of you. So just shut up."
This one is right out of the Dem playbook.
Two clicks and I found it.....
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-1590041.html
I’ve been taking it for around 5 years, quite regularly to help me sleep. No ill-effects at all, ever.
I guess everyone’s different.
He was on drugs!
No different than some drunk or junkie.
MCSO: Evidence lacking to arrest drunk deputy
Deputy Donald Dalton, who by Jan. 9 had already racked up a history of alcohol-related misdeeds with the Sheriff's Office, including a previous allegation of drunk driving while on patrol, was never arrested for the alleged DUI that day and has not been charged with a crime.
Dalton blew 0.155 and 0.151, both almost twice the legal limit of 0.08, in two Breathalyzer tests shortly after he was ordered off the road on Jan. 9, say Sheriff's Office documents.
The incident, however, wasn't the first time Dalton was drunk on patrol, according to the Sheriff's Office. On March 11, 2007, Dalton was breath-tested due to concerns that he smelled strongly of alcohol while on duty. The tests, which were administered at 12:30 that afternoon, showed a breath alcohol of 0.02, below the legal limit of 0.08. But the Sheriff's Office concluded that before 9 o'clock that morning, when a co-worker first complained that Dalton smelled of alcohol, he had been driving with a breath alcohol level slightly above 0.1, higher than the limit.
Attorney disbarred over will but Ward doesn’t prosecute
A Marathon attorney and former president of the Florida Keys Bar Association accused of mishandling a woman's will, particularly his collection of $200,000.00 in inheritance money, consented to being disbarred, but Dennis Ward declined to prosecute.
William "Buck" DeVane, who formerly represented Key Colony Beach and the Florida Keys Community College board, agreed not to practice law in Florida……
In addition to over $200,000.00, DeVane took leather sofas, two flat-screen televisions, a Bose radio, artwork and $2,000 to $3,000 in cash from Meyers' condo, as well as $63,562 given to him to care for the deceased woman's dog.
A legal consultant hired by the city of Key West is recommending the City Commission pay a proposed $45,000 settlement to a man claiming he was wrongfully arrested and thrown to the ground by a city police officer.
The incident in question allegedly occurred about 1 a.m. June 20, 2007, when Unuvar was trying to park his car near his Flagler Avenue residence, reports say. Unuvar reportedly couldn't find a parking space near his house, so he parked on the other side of the street. Police said he did so without headlights.
Unuvar alleges that Officer Luis Sanchez threw him to the ground, and that he suffered a cut to the face from the incident. Unuvar was charged with obstructing an officer without violence, but former cop One-Term Ward later dropped the charge, citing insufficient evidence and never considered charging officer Sanchez.
A year earlier, the State Attorney’s Office had to drop charges against a man that Sanchez had arrested because a comparison of the video and his under-oath report showed that Sanchez was lying to try to justify roughing up the man during the arrest. Lying on an official report is a crime. Would you be surprised that Sanchez was never disciplined at all in this case?
On the evening of July 8, 2010, Sanchez stopped a vehicle that was being driven erratically. But when he realized that the vehicle was being driven by an off-duty cop who had been drinking, he turned off his ICOP and arranged for the cop to get a ride home.
Cop’s Ticket dismissed in fatal accident December 1, 2011
Florida Highway Patrol troopers cited Deputy Scott Ward in August after completing an investigation of the accident in which Ward rear-ended an electric car on U.S. 1 on Boca Chica Key. Randall Graft, 54, of North Huntingdon, Pa., died from injuries received when he was thrown from the vehicle.
Deputy Scott Ward reportedly was going 59 mph in a 55 mph zone on his way to work patrolling Higgs Beach in Key West.
Ward began working for the Sheriff's Office in August 2007. His personnel file contains both a letter of commendation and another for a sustained neglect of duty offense. The latter involved "careless handling or intentional abuse of equipment or weapons," in this case a squad car. He struck a concrete utility pole in his patrol car in February 2010. He received a letter of counseling for the offense. He remains working in road patrol. Randall Graft – not so much.
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jim inhofe tried hard to oppose the scumbag bryson....
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=237a5a0e-802a-23ad-483c-a717b5730830
Out of it ping....
My wife took that crap...wondering around the house doing crazy stuff...
The devil’s pill.
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