Word: propofol
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...been the subject of nearly nonstop speculation since shortly after the death of Michael Jackson. The cardiologist - Jackson's personal physician - told investigators he was responsible for giving the pop singer a potent drug cocktail on June 25, culminating with a dose of 25 milligrams of the prescription sedative propofol - the drug the coroner's preliminary reports indicated killed Jackson. Authorities have already searched Murray's clinics, and with reports that investigators now consider Jackson's death a homicide, the speculation around Murray is only intensifying further...
...Read "Jackson's Death: How Dangerous Is Propofol...
...operating theater, doctors can make quick adjustments to avoid problems. Abusers have no such recourse for a drug that acts so quickly that they often injure themselves immediately by falling. Earley says that a center that specializes in drug abuse among medical professionals started to see early signs of propofol abuse five years ago. "Now it's part of the screening for all physicians who come here. Do you use intravenous propofol?" says Earley. "I wouldn't have believed this if you had asked me that five years...
...Propofol was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1989 with little thought of abuse potential. But even before the recent mainstream media coverage, the FDA was "hearing from health-care professionals about abuse by other professionals, long before Michael Jackson," says FDA spokeswoman Karen Riley. "[The Jackson news] just means I am answering a lot of propofol questions." DEA spokesman Rusty Payne says his agency was petitioned two years ago to "schedule" propofol - which would make it a controlled substance. While the research process is under way, Payne would not give a timetable on the process...
...chief executive officer of Promises rehabilitation facility in Malibu, Calif., says the drug presents inherent obstacles to mainstream appeal, including its lack of street availability and its need to be administered by a needle. While Hollywood's troubled abusers have yet to start showing up at his doors with propofol problems, he doesn't rule it out. "Whenever a drug gets attention like this in the media, people want to try it," says Sack. "It takes a while for things to break out. Sometimes they never do. But there are always people who abuse drugs who are looking...