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   From: agent-smith@two-blocks-on-your-left.com   
      
   Brigid Nelson  wrote in   
   news:k6ednSekeLeN8VPYnZ2dnUVZ_vvinZ2d@comcast.com:   
      
   > Agent Smith wrote:   
   >> "AirRaid"  wrote in   
   >> news:1171021214.553792.14080 @s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>Smith took what was referred to as a   
   >>>"children's sedative," and had "kept passing out" before her death.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> I think that must be the fentanyl lollipop, and it wouldn't leave any   
   >> traces in her stomach.   
   >   
   > Is a fentany lollipop something given to kids?  I thought those were   
   > for terminal patients.   
      
   They're for kids with cancer, and they sell for $25 a "pop" on the   
   street.  Jeez, and I thought it was such a big deal when they mixed my   
   penicillin with orange syrup, as a kid.  People manage to find a way to   
   misuse every single clever invention that doctors manage to dream up.   
      
   > As to whether she ODed, I've never meant to imply that she didn't do   
   > so accidentally, only that it doesn't look like she took a bottle full   
   > of pills.  My bet is accidental death due to drug interactions.   
      
   Right, I understand that, and with the grand celebrity tradition of such   
   deaths, that's probably what most people are thinking.  But a lethal   
   drug interaction happens pretty quickly after taking something, so you'd   
   expect there to be pills in her stomach from the one that finally killed   
   her.  Even if it were a long, slow cumulative decline, there should   
   still be a straw to break the camel's back.   
      
   Somebody else raised the question of liquid methadone, which also looks   
   like a good candidate, especially for her son's death.  A third person   
   was pointing out that kids used to crush up Ritalin pills and snort   
   them, and one of her drugs was an anti-ADD stimulant.   
      
   On ET today, it said that she lay down to take a nap, and when they   
   tried to wake her up, there was a problem.  I'm betting that she took   
   something to make her sleep (the children's sedative) and it finished   
   her off.  But then, who goes to sleep with a lollipop in their mouth?   
      
   A fourth idea just occurred to me.  She also had Xanax, which is a more   
   garden variety sleeping pill.  Doctors sometimes tell patients to   
   dissolve a pill under their tongue for a faster effect, and I wonder of   
   that might make the pills invisible to the ME.  But then Xanax isn't a   
   children's sedative, AFAIK.   
      
   I'm sticking with the fentanyl lollipop, but ET said something about her   
   fighting a fever of 105, two days prior.  I'd like to know what that was   
   all about, because it sounds extremely serious.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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