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One night last week, my boyfriend and I (who are both recovering addicts) were walking up to the ATM.

I had taken cough medicine for a cold I was fighting a couple hours beforehand, and I also took 50mg of seroquel, which is prescribed to me for anxiety and insomnia. The seroquel always makes me drowsy/dizzy to begin with, although not high at all, but I think the mixture with the cough medicine made it worse and, admittedly, I was a bit loopy.

My boyfriend, who was detoxing from the methadone (prescribed to him), had gotten some valium from his grammom to help with the withdrawal symptoms and was also a little out of sorts. As we walked to the ATM, my boyfriend (STUPIDLY, i know, but i love him) decided to take a piss on the lawn next to the bank- which happened to be the lawn of the police station. A cop who was walking out to the parking lot saw him and arrested him. I followed him inside the police station so I could make sure he was okay.

They started asking him what he was "on" (drugs/alcohol), and he told them. THEN they turned around and started BADGERING ME about what I was "on". I told them I wasn't on anything. They asked me if I was taking any medications, and I said seroquel. They kept asking me what I was on, I kept saying "nothing" because that was the truth. Then someone gave me this weird eye test with this little tool, like what you get at the doctor's office. Apparently THAT was considered a "medical evaluation", and it was enough to "prove" that I was "intoxicated". So then they asked me what he (my boyfriend) was on, and all I said was that he had taken some valium for his withdrawal.

But now I have a summons for a disorderly persons offense, and it says that I admitted to being under the influence of VALIUM (which, by the way, I've never taken). I have a court date in 5 days, I can't afford an attorney (nor can I really afford the Public Defender Application fee), and I'm scared shitless because I already have pending drug possession and paraphernalia charges and have just recently completed an outpatient drug rehab program.

Does anyone have any advice on how I can handle this? Is it possible to make a deal with the prosecutor before court and plead guilty to a lesser charge that won't show up as a criminal offense? I wasn't doing anything wrong!!!!!!!

Hey, it's New Jersey. People wouldn't live here unless they were born here.

2009-12-03 21:23:57 by Jody

Mixing Methadone with other medications "Lets talk about mixing Methadone with other medications its rather common in modern medicine for a ...

DANIA BEACH, Fla. - Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental overdose of a sleeping medication and at least eight other prescription drugs, and she had recently had a bacterial infection from injecting drugs into her buttocks, authorities said Monday.


Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper said Smith died of "combined drug intoxication" with the sleeping medication chloral hydrate as the major factor. She had been taking a lengthy list of medications, including methadone for pain and valium, he said.

A bacterial infection from injecting medication in her buttocks and a viral infection contributed to her death, the autopsy report said.

Chloral hydrate is a sedative used to treat insomnia and alcohol withdrawal, relieve anxiety and ease post-surgery pain. Perper said Smith had been on several antidepressant and antianxiety drugs and had recently taken longevity medications, B12 and growth hormone.

I think that this woman died in a very sad way after living a very sad life. I'm not a fan of the woman, but anytime that someone dies at a young age, it is a bad thing. She had a baby and just lost her son several months before. Why don't we show some respect for the dead?

2007-03-26 09:43:35 by sage seeker

My husband died about a year and a half ago due to drug intoxication due to a mixture of morphine and methadone.

I applied for a service connected pension and in the application stated his problems with drugs due to his post traumatic stress; He was using drugs to mask his feeling from the horrible experiences he had had in Vietnam. I detailed my evidence of when he was a heavy user of heroin--the apparent calm; but the scream and anguish he exhibited when he got off: claims of seeing screaming women and dying children, etc. Often anxiously and nervously crying or laughing hilariously--a broken man. The interesting things is that he became addicted to morphine while in the "military Naval Hospital in Guam s/p leaving Vietnam combat." The last statement is documented by the VA.

However, the VA states they have denied my claim because:

"We have determined service connection for cause of death is denied."
1. Death not related to military service; 2 Cause of death is considered willful misconduct
3 and They needed more records that they can not find.

I believe that his death is service connected. He was not a junky before Vienam; nor did he have bloody creaming children and women visiting him at night, etc. Also VA is suppose to be responsible for their records, not him, the public or me. Is there any cases or laws on these issues? Please help.

They might have you screwed with number 2. Cause of death is willful misconduct. Improper use of prescription drugs, even if they started it, could be considered willful misconduct.

If you still want to try:

Contact the national archives and see if you can get his entire record...Might take jumping through some hoops, but it will give you a better platform to argue your claim. As his direct next of kin and since you are in a debate with the VA they should give you all they have with enough pushing from you.

Was his PTSD diagnosed by a military doctor? Did they every officially release him or claim he was rehabilitated? You might have some wiggle room there.

Don't know if there are any cases about this. This might be a good question for Law and Ethics category?

Remember that you are fighting a gigantic bureaucracy full of false walls. Keep showing them the truth. Write your congressman's office. Make them hate you, politely. Make it so they recognize your face and voice and associate it with misery. They will come around.

Worse case scenario you hire a lawyer.

It's not going to be an easy battle.

Good luck, dear.

2010-10-14 16:44:25 by silviejj