On Drugs
This will eventually be about Michael Jackson. Bear with me.
The FDA recently recommended pulling Percocet and Vicodin from the market. Even though these are presecription drugs, they suddenly decided it was a bad idea to combine acetaminophen with more powerful narcotics. Apparently there was a huge problem with people on these drugs popping a Tylenol with these more powerful drugs, and getting more than the recommended dose of acetaminophen per day. But other combination drugs, such as Nyquil and Theraflu, get a pass. Um, go FDA?
But even acetaminophen itself is getting a bad rap, and for the same reason -- people are stupid. For instance, they think that if a drug works well, it works TWICE as well if they take twice as much. Simple math, right?
There is a spread between the recommended dosage for most drugs, and the level where they can cause irreversible damage and/or death. For acetaminophen (found in Tylenol, Bayer, etc.), this spread is exceptionally small -- taking one or two pills over the recommended daily dose WILL damage your liver for every day you do it. In fact, acetaminophen overdose has been the chief cause of acute liver failure since 1998 -- not alcohol abuse (although I'm sure it's up there.) Even worse, taking the maximum recommended dose with alcohol will probably kill you.
And that brings us to Michael Jackson.
He's had insomnia since 2005, right around the time his latest trial started. A nurse who treated Michael Jackson earlier this year claims he begged her for Divprivan. This horrified her, and even though she tried to explain how dangerous it was, Jackson insisted it would be fine as long as there was someon there to watch him and wake him up. It's a drug that's administered through IV and pretty much knocks you out right away. The nurse tried to explain, "you're going to take it and you're not going to wake up". Carbon dioxide builds up in your system, and eventually causes your heart to start beating erratically... and stop altogether. Even with supervision, if you use this drug long enough, it's going to FUCKING KILL YOU.
Is that what happened? A lot of details around his death would make sense. Jackson's doctor was there at the time, and administered CPR when his pulse became thready. Why else would he have even been there at the crucial moment unless he had administered Diprivan and was doing as Jackson requested the nurse to do? Why then flee the house and leave his car behind unless he knew what he was doing there was wrong or at least highly dubious (Diprivan is not typically prescribed for private use)?
Drawing these parallels, it's not hard to deduce what happened. And now it looks like there is confirmation: Diprivan has been found at the house where Michael Jackson died.
~Sean
The FDA recently recommended pulling Percocet and Vicodin from the market. Even though these are presecription drugs, they suddenly decided it was a bad idea to combine acetaminophen with more powerful narcotics. Apparently there was a huge problem with people on these drugs popping a Tylenol with these more powerful drugs, and getting more than the recommended dose of acetaminophen per day. But other combination drugs, such as Nyquil and Theraflu, get a pass. Um, go FDA?
But even acetaminophen itself is getting a bad rap, and for the same reason -- people are stupid. For instance, they think that if a drug works well, it works TWICE as well if they take twice as much. Simple math, right?
There is a spread between the recommended dosage for most drugs, and the level where they can cause irreversible damage and/or death. For acetaminophen (found in Tylenol, Bayer, etc.), this spread is exceptionally small -- taking one or two pills over the recommended daily dose WILL damage your liver for every day you do it. In fact, acetaminophen overdose has been the chief cause of acute liver failure since 1998 -- not alcohol abuse (although I'm sure it's up there.) Even worse, taking the maximum recommended dose with alcohol will probably kill you.
And that brings us to Michael Jackson.
He's had insomnia since 2005, right around the time his latest trial started. A nurse who treated Michael Jackson earlier this year claims he begged her for Divprivan. This horrified her, and even though she tried to explain how dangerous it was, Jackson insisted it would be fine as long as there was someon there to watch him and wake him up. It's a drug that's administered through IV and pretty much knocks you out right away. The nurse tried to explain, "you're going to take it and you're not going to wake up". Carbon dioxide builds up in your system, and eventually causes your heart to start beating erratically... and stop altogether. Even with supervision, if you use this drug long enough, it's going to FUCKING KILL YOU.
Is that what happened? A lot of details around his death would make sense. Jackson's doctor was there at the time, and administered CPR when his pulse became thready. Why else would he have even been there at the crucial moment unless he had administered Diprivan and was doing as Jackson requested the nurse to do? Why then flee the house and leave his car behind unless he knew what he was doing there was wrong or at least highly dubious (Diprivan is not typically prescribed for private use)?
Drawing these parallels, it's not hard to deduce what happened. And now it looks like there is confirmation: Diprivan has been found at the house where Michael Jackson died.
~Sean