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Old 12-31-2008, 08:18 PM   #21
alyscat
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Default Re: France's first woman in space hospitalized:she screamed "Earth must be warned"?

It's not the sleeping pill, it's the combination of the sleeping pill with all the other pills.

I don't know about France, but in America docs pretty much believe that pills are the best thing since sliced bread - and it takes a pharmacist to occasionally find that the meds that are being taken are contraindicated.

(We just found that with my Dad, BTW, he'd been taking 2 inhalant drugs that were contraindicated - when we went to a new company to cover his nebulizer drugs, the pharmacist called and asked what else he was taking. I told her all of them, and it turned out one of the asthma drugs was contraindicated with one of the nebulizer drugs - ordered by 2 different docs, and neither doc caught it, even though they were given a sheet with the information each time he came in for a visit.)
alys

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Originally Posted by orthodoxymoron View Post
Is there such a thing as a 'super sleeping pill' which would look like a normal sleeping pill...but which would result in an 'aparent suicide'? The lab fire bothers me. A accidental sleeping pill overdose would not have resulted in a lab fire.
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