Gosh, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome is a real mystery, and...
Oh. Wait. That headline's not entirely accurate:
A “bright and friendly” man tragically died after taking drugs, an inquest heard.Ah. That's pretty significant.
At the hearing, coroner’s officer Kirsty Roberts said: “He had a medical history of anxiety and depressive disorder.
“He was known to mental health services.
“On the evening of the July 29 he complained of feeling unwell to his parents and went to bed.
“On July 30 his family found him unresponsive in his bed. Paramedics attended and sadly confirmed his death.
“A post-mortem examination was carried out on August 1 at Southend Hospital.
“A cause of death was given as 1A mixed drug toxicity and part two, acute bronchopneumonia.”
Traces of codeine, pregabalin and morphine were found in his system.Pregabalin is prescribed for epilepsy, neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome, and generalized anxiety disorder. The codeine and morphine, who knows?
The family said: “We know that he didn’t intend to take his own life. We had things arranged, he definitely didn’t.”
Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray recorded a conclusion that Mr Goodburn had died as a result of an accident, contributed to by natural causes.Yeah, she would....
Let your imagination run riot with a tad of knowledge, JuliaM. Morphine and opioids are legally prescribed treatments for certain conditions.
ReplyDeleteBut hey...not much of a story there, eh?
MTG, you miss the point totally. Julia is making a comment on the frequency of such deaths in the modern age. Generations now of spoilt, poorly educated, utterly bereft of personal responsibility, childlike 40 year olds, behaving like 12 year olds. Often referred to as "snowflakes". Prescription or "recreational" drugs is irrelevant. All easy solutions, apparently, to lack of character and intellect. A media fest of grief ongoing for someone of a similar bent with everything one can dream of but zero ability to handle ordinary life without props.
ReplyDeleteThere are many who claim that pregabalin (Lyrica) is little more than poison: It was prescribed to someone close to me who after six days was like someone with super-Parkinsons, had visual problems, and both their anxiety levels and depression levels went through the roof - and these are only some of the side effects! They stopped taking it, and it was a good four to six months before these side effects/withdrawal symptoms abated. Action is futile because Pfizer can afford more lawyers. Big pharma creates customers, not cures.
ReplyDelete"Morphine and opioids are legally prescribed treatments for certain conditions."
ReplyDeleteWhich would have been mentioned, I suspect, if he'd suffered from them.
"Action is futile because Pfizer can afford more lawyers. Big pharma creates customers, not cures."
Very true!