Word: demerol
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...underwent an operation on the left thigh bone. The postoperative pain was much worse this time. But he kept fighting. "Just spare me the stupid jokes. This is serious business," he told his mom when she quipped that he was growing a mustache. This time he accepted some Demerol, and when it gave him a high, he became a little boastful. "Uncle Mozaffar tried to talk me out of this. He said it didn't matter if I could never drive a car, date girls or play games. He said the pain wouldn't be worth...
...easier by an alert toxicologist at the county crime laboratory, who recalled the 1977 case of a Maryland graduate student who had developed Parkinson's symptoms after injecting himself with a home-brewed opiate. The student had been trying to produce MPPP, a substance similar to the pain-killer Demerol, but had accidentally created a related chemical called MPTP. Langston asked Stanford University Chemist Ian Irwin to test the samples for the drug. Sure enough, MPTP was there...
...Marchant, a Rhode Island native, face a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a $15,000 fine for both charges. On the day of the arrest, Palm Beach officials announced that Kennedy, 28, son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, had died after "multiple ingestion of cocaine, Demerol and a prescription sedative called Mellaril." Under Florida law, the accused coke dealers could also face a felony murder charge, though that is unlikely because of the difficulty of proving that the coke they allegedly sold was the same drug found in Kennedy's body...
...autopsy report, claiming that press coverage would hamper the criminal investigation under way to find the supplier of the 1.3 grams of cocaine found in David's room. Kennedy, had a history of drug and alcohol abuse, and initial tests found traces of cocaine and the prescription painkiller Demerol in his body. If David died of a drug overdose, under Florida law the person who sold him the cocaine can be charged with murder. Although withholding autopsy details is standard procedure in any homicide investigation, three Florida newspaper groups and a Miami TV station have sued the state...
There were drugs in David's room. Jay Pintacuda, chief medical examiner of the Palm Beach sheriff's department crime lab, said the police found 1.3 grams of high-grade cocaine. He reported that an autopsy discovered traces of cocaine and Demerol, a powerful prescription painkiller, in his body. But it was too early to know what exactly had caused his death...