By Marty Salo
News Correspondant
My mom speculated that Anna Nicole Smith died the same way that her son Daniel died. Â
I'm not sure about all of what goes on, but Mom was a nurse in a drug treatment facility, and a little bit of google yeildedf up some interesting finds.
It's a little bit funny that some people might want to blame the paparazzi, or the government, or the lawyers, or the older children of the billionaire.
Does the possibility that this was brought on by one's own self-destructive behaviors/tendencies somehow lessen the tragedy?
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Methadone overdoseThis is poisoning from taking a large amount (overdose) of methadone. Methadone is a very strong painkiller. It is also used to treat heroin addiction.
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Methadone Anonymous -- View topic - My son died of a Methadone ...| My son died of a methadone overdose.... He had battled oxycontin and cocaine addictions for about three years, when he saw the Johnny Cash movie and decided ... www.methadone-anonymous.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2470&sid=c3925ef59c026d4b1282bd430391a3f1 - 27k - Cached - Similar pages<!--n--> |
| The OR of death from methadone overdose on Saturday and Sunday was 1.48 (95% CI 1.29-1.71) for methadone-only deaths compared to dying from heroin/morphine ... www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00294.x/abs/ - Similar pages<!--n--> |
| Recent reports have suggested increases in methadone-induced overdose deaths ... This limited available data about the role of methadone in overdose deaths ... www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00693.x/abs/ - Similar pages<!--n--> |
| The nurse at an Ottawa clinic who realized a man had received a fatal methadone overdose told an inquest that she did not know of any procedure at the ... www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/10/31/methadone-inquest.html - 29k - Cached - Similar pages<!--n--> |
| Where did methadone come from? How is methadone taken? What are methadone's adverse reactions? What are the symptoms of methadone overdose? ... www.drugrehab.co.uk/methadone.htm - 38k - Cached - Similar pages<!--n--> |
| Most likely to die from methadone overdose were those 35 and older, while heroin overdose deaths most commonly occurred among males, and marijuana or ... www.nyam.org/news/2001.html - 11k - Cached - Similar pages<!--n--> |
| Methadone contributes to 50% of opioid-overdose deaths in England and Wales,5 ... 6 W Hall, L Degenhardt and M Lynskey, Trends in methadone overdose deaths ... linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673600024235 - Similar pages<!--n--> |
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| OGDEN, Utah (AP) -- Deaths caused by an overdose of methadone -- a painkiller used to help addicts stop taking heroin -- are up nearly 300 percent in Utah ... tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=46&sid=206792 - 31k - Cached - Similar pages<!--n--> |
| Poisoning from an overdose of methadone. Poisonous Ingredient. methadone. Where Found. Methadone; Dolophine; Methadose; Eptadone; Physeptone ... www.walgreens.com/library/contents.jsp?doctype=1&docid=002679 - 35k - Cached - Similar pages<!--n--> |
| Annual deaths from methadone overdose are rising — there are about 80 a year compared to 37 in the year 2000. That's the last year the coroner's office was ... www.thestar.com/News/article/144359 - 61k - Cached - Similar pages<!--n--> |
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| File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML cross-tolerance makes the conversion of patients on other opioids to methadone complex and. does not eliminate the possibility of methadone overdose, ... www.fda.gov/cder/drug/InfoSheets/HCP/methadoneHCP.pdf - Similar pages<!--n--> |
| Most people who overdose on methadone were taking street methadone. You can die by taking street methadone by itself—but it is especially dangerous to take ... www.camh.net/About_Addiction_Mental_Health/Drug_and_Addiction_Information/street_methadone_straight_talk.html - 44k - Cached - Similar pages<!--n--> |
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Comments: 2
Anna Nicole will be autopsied and the results of the tox screen will be available soon enough.
Then people can start gossiping over the cause and the reasons but for God's sake, can't we let this poor woman rest in peace until we have the facts?
Tabloid journalism isn't news.
FYI Methadone, a synthetic drug of the "opioid" variety was created by Germany's pharmaceutical industry (under the brand name Dolphine) during WW2 when the Allied Nations cut off supplies of raw opium (from which Morphine Sulfate, which has been used in battlefields since the Civil War, is produced) to the Nazis.