So. Last year, an 18-year old kid died of a drug overdose, after attending a 'pharm party'. That's a new one for me...a 'pharm party'. You just grab whatever you can find in the medicine cabinet, and share with your friends. It doesn't matter what you find, just bring it and share. Heck...it doesn't even need to be a narcotic or a pain-killer...if you take enough of them, it will have an effect.
In this case, 18-year old Tylor Runyon took FORTY gout pills, which pretty much caused his kidneys and heart to wave the white flag of surrender. Who is to blame for his death? His parents, for not throwing out all the medicine they reclaimed from his grand-fathers house? Tylor, for stealing the medicine that his parents didn't throw out? No! Silly person...according to Tylor's parents, it's those mean old pharmacies, because they didn't have drug turn in boxes.
Well, they are out to fix that, campaigning for a new law, requiring pharmacies to have drug turn in boxes.
Ummm...every pharmacy I have ever been to already HAS one of those, right out in front...it's called a TRASH CAN.
Before I get too riled up, the State House here in Washington already voted this bill down(even though it's still technically alive in the Senate).
Should it have even made it to the Legislature? Not in my opinion. This was avoidable. Mom and her partner cold have just thrown this crap out, right into the trash. They could have over packed them with other trash and dumped them into a dumpster behind a McDonalds. They could have flushed them down the toilet! No...they put them in a bag to get rid of them 'later' Am I supposed to believe that they would have gone through the effort to drop it off at a pharmacy on the way home, if there had been a law requiring pharmacies to have 'drop boxes.'
Then, the son was a dumb-ass. If you take 40 of ANY type of pills, you are asking for it. Death might be a tad bit harsh of a sentence for run of the mill stupidity, but, it's not too over the top.
What this isn't, is a tragedy, even though the news story calls it a 'tragic death' in the 4th to the last paragraph.
Chlorine in the gene pool, 's far as I'm concerned.
ReplyDeleteMost of the pharmacies by me will accept such things ANYWAY, official turn in box or not. Though they get a bit iffy if its a major painkiller.
ReplyDeleteWe had a similer problem here a couple years ago. Daughter starts making herself puke to loose weight, starts using ipecac to help her vomit. Eventually puts so much strain on her body that her heart gives out (the reports say it was weeks of using ipecac). Instead of charging the parents with abuse or some such for failing to notice that their daughter has starved herself to such a state, NY allows the mother to help create a low requiring pharmacies to put ipecac behind the counter so its not in such easy reach of "vunerable children". Sigh.
law not low, sigh
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