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- Subject: Re: Life (death) imitates usenet - man dies from LSD abuse.MENU
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.163835.52660@gmuvax.gmu.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 16:38:35 -0500
- References: <1992Dec18.111413.16804@pony.Ingres.COM> <1992Dec18.205224.3243@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <1992Dec23.061510.2244@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Reply-To: mjharris@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Harris)
- Followup-To: alt.drugs, Item 16840
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- In article <1992Dec23.061510.2244@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mjharris@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Harris) writes:
- > billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >
- > --
- >>>> For private correspondance, finger for my uuencoded pgp public key <<<
- > InterNet: mikeh@tenet.edu
- > *HOW MANY LICKS DOES IT TAKE TO GET TO THE CENTER OF A TOOTSIE ROLL
- TOOTSIE POP?...A-ONE,...A-TWO,...ELEVEN! THESE GO TO ELEVEN.*Rad & Linda
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