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- From: mjharris@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Harris)
- Subject: Re: Life (death) imitates usenet - man dies from LSD abuse.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.061510.2244@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1992Dec18.111413.16804@pony.Ingres.COM> <1992Dec18.205224.3243@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 06:15:10 GMT
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- billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
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- >sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney) writes:
- >: Timothy Murphy's death came 17 days after that of a teenager who
- >: had taken similar tabs, an inquest in Luton was told. Dr Patrick Toseland,
- >: a toxicologist at Guy's hospital, London, who submitted a report to the
- >: hearing, said afterwards that deaths related to the hallucingenic drug LSD
- >: were extremely rare. ''I hadn't seen one for 23 years until these two this
- >: year,'' he said. Mr Murphy, 25, collapsed at his home after drinking heavily
- >: and takin 11 tabs. Dr Toseland said that alcohol could increase the risk
- >: of death from LSD. An inquest last month was told that Denise Jones, 18,
- >: died in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, after swallowing similar tabs."
- >:
- >: I guess that answers the question "How much LSD is fatal?". 11 tabs, in this
- >: poor bastard's case.
-
- >Nope. All it means is that the person took some LSD. He also may have had a
- >few grams of salt shortly before hand, with a meal. Are we to say that, in
- >his case X grams of salt were fatal? Of course not, that would be stupid.
-
- >I suspect that the LSD had nothing to do with the death, and that he died
- >of acute alcohol poisoning.
-
- >Bill
-
- Well I don't believe the article at all. It contains several factual
- errors and I suspect the whole thing is an elaborate fabrication by a lazy
- reporter.
-
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