BAMAPHIN 22
07-29-2009, 11:00 AM
16-year-old Joseph Loudon died sometime before dawn May 24. Drinking was a suspected cause of death.
But when the coroner's report came back, Loudon's blood alcohol level was well below the level that constitutes drunken driving.
Instead, the coroner's report said the cause of death was a mixture of alcohol and papaverine, according to a report released last week to the San Francisco Chronicle (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), or a prescription drug used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED), among other things. The combination of alcohol and papaverine caused Loudon to vomit and choke to death.
In addition to highlighting the pitfalls behind abuse of prescription drugs, the incident also raises questions about why Loudon used the drug in the first place, whether he used it knowingly and whether it was even being used in a way that would deliver the intended effects.
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But when the coroner's report came back, Loudon's blood alcohol level was well below the level that constitutes drunken driving.
Instead, the coroner's report said the cause of death was a mixture of alcohol and papaverine, according to a report released last week to the San Francisco Chronicle (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), or a prescription drug used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED), among other things. The combination of alcohol and papaverine caused Loudon to vomit and choke to death.
In addition to highlighting the pitfalls behind abuse of prescription drugs, the incident also raises questions about why Loudon used the drug in the first place, whether he used it knowingly and whether it was even being used in a way that would deliver the intended effects.
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