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| Sonny Nicole Smith Died From Lethal Combination Of Drugs | |
| 2006-09-28 | |
 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, September 27, 2006 - Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressant drugs, the U.S.-based pathologist who conducted a private autopsy said Wednesday.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 Thank you for your kind words Zenster. I am making progress, but GAD is a real b*tch. The SSRI is helping me break the vicious cycle, so hopefully I can get off of it eventually as TW commented. Zenster, I sent you an email to your AOL account so I don't hijack this thread. |
| Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283 2006-09-28 20:19 |
| #14 You'll be "empowered" to smack dumbfucks around. And feel really good about it. And ain't that what life's all about! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-28 17:43 |
| #13 I look at it in terms of playing defense or offense. Get your triglycerides up, way up, and life gets better. You'll be "empowered" to smack dumbfucks around. And feel really good about it. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-09-28 16:02 |
| #12 My own intermittant experience with SSRIs is that the wrong ones either do absolutely nothing or very clearly (within hours) make things much, much worse; on the flip side, the right chemical at the right dose equally clearly restores mental clarity and emotional balance, and reduces the ongoing exhaustion that that is a side effect of anxiety and depression. Also, the same chemical (each SSRI is slightly different) that works at one time for a person may not work, or work negatively, another time. Again, one becomes keenly aware of this within hours of swallowing the pill. Finally, while for some people the SSRI addresses a permanent brain chemical imbalance, for others simply taking the medicine for a period of time (usually one year) is enough to reset things at one's north end. I've a friend whose daughter was diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive at the age of five, took meds for one year, and has been both medicine-free and OC-free for the past decade -- now a happy, successful young lady. I agree that the things are overprescribed; but, while the various problems that SSRIs fix are dramatically visible on a PET scan, as is the change wrought by the medications, few are willing to pay the $1500+ per scan to get a definitive diagnosis before the scripts are handed out. It turns out that each of the various anxiety disorders and depression cause visibly different firing patterns, as visible as Alzheimers in the pictures I saw -- no artistic subtlety is necessary to read these scans! Rather, too much of the medical and psychiatric profession are willing to diagnose backwards from the result, ie "If it works, there's your cause," just as ADHD is often enough diagnosed because Ritalin is effective. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-09-28 15:40 |
| #11 I understand, CF9283, and am glad you are able to derive such great benefit from the positive potential that SSRIs have. I'm also glad to note your aversion to "stacking" any of these powerful medications. Even if the individual drugs themselves are relatively safe, their synergies represent the stuff of psychiatric nightmares. I think you are very wise to combine non-drug based therapies with your regimen of prescribed medication. You have most certainly reduced your risk profile by leaps and bounds. I wish you every happiness in overcoming whatever demons may haunt you. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-28 15:28 |
| #10 I still maintain that the longterm effects of all these SRI drugs, antidepressants, antianxiety meds and antipsychotics that are being handed out like so much candy will come back home to roost in a horrendous way. Well, not to quibble, but I would be VERY miserable without my SSRI. (Yes I am one of the mentally infirm.) However, I would certainly agree that 'stacking' all of these western drugs can mess people up (Lexipro AND Zoloft? WTF??) Personally, I use my SSRI as one part of a program that includes an Eastern remedy (for insomnia), diet (a huge and under-rated part), excercise, and accupuncture. Put them together and I am a very happy camper. |
| Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283 2006-09-28 14:53 |
| #9 As Forrest's mamma said, "stupid is as stupid does" |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2006-09-28 11:41 |
| #8 Methadone is used sometimes for chronic pain. As an example, it can be a real blessing for patients with near end-stage cancer and intractable pain. It has a long half-life and doesn't generate a 'buzz'. For a young man, however, the only usual application for methadone is as a substitute for heroin. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-09-28 09:24 |
| #7 With apologies to Dusty Springfield. Sonny Sonny, yesterday you almost grew a brain Sonny, you had your chance and threw it away again Oh, the dark pills are gone The light ones are still here Watch Sonny chase them with a beer SonnyÂ’s such a fool It ainÂ’t cool Sonny, whyÂ’d you have to take so many pills? Sonny, whyÂ’d you think that they could cure your ills? You gave a damn about synergy Fly in a cloud of stupidity SonnyÂ’s such a fool HeÂ’s a tool |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-28 07:56 |
| #6 The kid has his way in the world paved for him and he has to get smacked up to deal with it. What a pathetic loser. I still maintain that the longterm effects of all these SRI drugs, antidepressants, antianxiety meds and antipsychotics that are being handed out like so much candy will come back home to roost in a horrendous way. We are letting the drug companies tinker with the most fundamental aspects of our brain chemistries in ways that were not even dreamed of a few decades ago. The short clinical trials that are used to qualify these powerful mind altering agents are like crash-testing all cars at speeds of less than 20 MPH. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-28 07:37 |
| #5 I think a better description would have been "... a self inflicted, drug-related death," |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2006-09-28 06:12 |
| #4 Methadone is a legal substitute for Heroin. At least I don't know of any other treatment that it is used for. |
| Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-09-28 03:59 |
| #3 Than again, it could be just about anyone with a joy stick |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-09-28 01:20 |
| #2 FOX > Nicole's Atty HOWARD K STERN claims he is the father of Nicole's new baby, NOT the photographer. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-09-28 01:11 |
| #1 On son's tombstone, dad was a spirt, mom a boob |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-09-28 01:07 |