Word: demerol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talks about his heart attack in August 1996 and of being wheeled into an operating room for quintuple bypass surgery. "I was thinking of A Man in Full on the way in, maybe as a way of focusing on a lesser worry or because of the effects of the Demerol they'd given me." The operation was successful, and Wolfe emerged "euphoric. I was so happy to be alive that I started writing constantly, although mostly on things not related to the novel...
...sold a story to the National Enquirer alleging that Cunanan had a sadistic obsession with the actor Tom Cruise, one that included fantasies of sexual torture and the murder of Cruise's wife Nicole Kidman. Other acquaintances tell tales of Cunanan's dealing in such prescription drugs as Demerol, Vicodin, Xanax and Percocet, earning thousands of dollars to supplement the gifts already bestowed upon him by older "benefactors" in the exclusive San Diego suburb of La Jolla. Cunanan allegedly courted others as well. Steven Zeeland, who writes books about the gay subculture in the military, says he and Cunanan...
...while filming a Pepsi commercial. Says one source: "He kept telling Hoefflin to make it smaller, make it smaller." Jackson has said it was the painful after-effects of scalp surgery that started him on his addiction to drugs. One source has told TIME Jackson may have abused prescribed Demerol, a narcotic the singer first used when he was receiving steroid treatments to soften scar tissue...
Kevorkian knows firsthand about loss of control. "Our mother suffered from cancer," says his sister Margo Janus. "I saw the ravages right up to the end. Her mind was sound, but her body was gone. My brother's option would have been more moral than all the Demerol that they poured into her, to the point that her body was all black and blue from the needle marks. She was in a coma, and she weighed only 70 lbs. Even then I said to the doctor, 'This isn't right, to keep her on IV,' but he shrugged his shoulder...
...doctor asked me if I was allergic to anything," says Martin. "I said aspirin and penicillin. But he gave me a shot of Demerol which causes a reaction in people allergic to aspirin and penicillin. I went into a spasm...