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Within an hour, a maid found Eugenie, deep in a coma, sprawled on her bedroom floor. An empty Seconal bottle lay near by. It was 11 p.m. on May 3. Niarchos called his sister in Athens and asked her to send a doctor employed by the Niarchos shipyards. When the doctor arrived from Athens by helicopter, it was 2 a.m. Half an hour later, Eugenie, 44, died. The doctor refused to sign a death certificate because death was not from natural causes. The police, who noted bruises on Eugenie's throat and abdomen, ordered an inquiry...
...still supposed to prescribe it for only one condition, the manic phase of manic-depressive psychosis. Some authorities are concerned that physicians may prescribe the drug too freely, for it may be dangerous. Double the usual prescribed dose can make a person miserably ill, and more might cause coma and death. Yet by this criterion lithium carbonate is no more dangerous than digitalis or insulin. Despite their poor profit prospects, three U.S. drug manufacturers are now marketing the compound as a public service. No one knows how many U.S. mental patients qualify for it: the figure most often quoted...
...tolerance for the drug, he must use ever increasing amounts to reach the same high?thus the price of a habit can run as high as $100 a day. If he shoots too little, he does not get the kick he wants; if he shoots too much, he risks coma and death from an overdose. An overdose depresses the brain's control of breathing, slowing respiration to the point where the body simply does not get the oxygen it needs. If he tries to stop suddenly?cold turkey?he must endure the screaming, nauseating, sweating agonies of withdrawal...
Austere old Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar is still unaware that he was replaced 15 months ago while in a deep coma following a stroke-and he may never find out. No one in Portugal has so far been able to summon up the nerve to tell the old man that his 36-year reign is over. The task of preventing Salazar from finding out has fallen chiefly to his housekeeper, Dona Maria de Jesus Caetano Freire, and his physician. They deny him newspapers and television, explaining that such diversions would "tire" him. They schedule meetings with his former Cabinet...
Though the 36-year rule of Portugal's António de Oliveira Salazar ended last year, the old man is not yet aware of it. Still immobilized after a stroke and a coma 13 months ago, Salazar calls Cabinet meetings, and his old ministers faithfully attend-even though some of them are no longer in the Cabinet. No one has found the courage to tell the 80-year-old dictator that he has been replaced...