Gothamist: Given Adult Dose of Pain Killer, Young Girl Dies

CainIV

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:56:29 -0500

Very unfortunate to hear this. Sometimes people can really lose touch with reality and with ethics and the results are not always good - Jeremy - tanzanite and tsavorite

NickyJ

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:19:56 -0500

Such a tragedy - it may well have been an accident but really, if this woman was a healthcare worker surely she knows the dangers of giving young children painkiller medication. tanzanite tsavorite

Colochita

Tue, 20 May 2008 15:37:12 -0500

See now that would have been a much more consise and useful response to #6.

Dave Hogarty

Tue, 20 May 2008 13:38:24 -0500

Fentanyl lollipop kind of looks like it was intended for kids at one point.

AnonEMouse

Tue, 20 May 2008 13:15:14 -0500

What a sad story. RX medications are no joke. Even over- the- counter meds can kill if abused or not used properly. I read last year a high school student who was an avid runner died after applying too much Ben Gay to her legs after races-- it apparently seeped into her blood stream and slowly poisoned her to death.

Colochita

Tue, 20 May 2008 13:00:31 -0500

I believe #6, among quite a few others, was trying to point out that the so-called “lollipop” – which looks much more like a Q-tip if you ask me – was NOT intended for children, which is what you state in the post. It’s not a matter of interest, but of accuracy.

Dave Hogarty

Tue, 20 May 2008 12:15:37 -0500

[6] I think it was Dennis Quaid who testified b/f Congress last week to discuss how one of his kids was given a blood thinner formulated for adults that was 1000 times (or something) the appropriate level for an infant. The child almost died. Obviously, dosage, delivery, and formulations have a crucial role in the helpfulness or harmfulness of drugs. I thought the lollipop thing was an interesting aside. You obviously did not.

jaja007

Tue, 20 May 2008 10:58:16 -0500

It's heartbreaking that a child dies so suddenly - but something tells me she would have been a pole dancer in a strip club when she grows up.

jaja007

Tue, 20 May 2008 10:24:13 -0500

This post demands a picture of the perp so we can make appropriate comments.

Nick S

Tue, 20 May 2008 09:25:30 -0500

Hogarty, you write an entire post about how this drug killed a child because she was too young to take it, then you end it by saying that the lollipop was intended for kids? Come on, man. Could the staff of Gothamist please get their shit together one of these days? Maybe?

emilydickinson

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:00:38 -0500

Fentanyl is more or the less the strongest narcotic pain killer we've been able to think up. Those patches are really intended for people with severe trauma, like burn victims, and are more for pain management when someone is terminally ill. If you notice the does are in micrograms. The lollipops were created for terminally ill patients, who for various reasons got nauseous when they swallowed pills. It's irresponsible to even imply they were thought up with kids in mind, and I'm no big fan of the pharma industry. I would imagine she worked at a shady old age home and stole the patches to sell (they're worth around $60-$80 USD depending). She probably had no idea what they really were. The boxes they come in include a graph that shows basically how high you'll be over a 72 hour period, just to give an idea of how strong that is. It's a sad story.

Albert Sharpton

Mon, 19 May 2008 19:46:56 -0500

HCA are a joke. My penis can be a HCA.

LinkMan

Mon, 19 May 2008 18:56:07 -0500

fentanyl lollipops were not intended for kids, but for adults suffering from horrible pain (usually in connection with cancer).

jenchungsgrammar

Mon, 19 May 2008 18:23:31 -0500

what an idiot. fentanyl is morphine x100, seriously. its one of the most powerful pain meds, used on cancer patients.

marilynnmyatsu

Mon, 19 May 2008 18:06:23 -0500

wow, how tragic. People need to take medication much more seriously. http://www.thenaturalsapphirecompany.com/