{"id":1411,"date":"2007-03-27T04:55:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T09:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/us-pharmacopeia\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T04:55:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T09:55:43","slug":"us-pharmacopeia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/us-pharmacopeia","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Pharmacopeia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, I mentioned the <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mix-n-mulch\/\" target=\"_blank\">amazing tox breakdown<\/a> from Gerald Levert&#8217;s autopsy. I felt like Steve Howe really let us down by <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/news?slug=howetoxicology&amp;prov=st&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">only having meth<\/a> in his system when he flipped his truck last year.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the Anna Nicole Smith tox report came out yesterday, and it&#8217;s restored my faith in drug-abusing celebrities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chloral hydrate: A drug typically used in hospitals for pre- and postsurgery patients struggling to sleep or in great pain<\/li>\n<li>Diphendydramine: Over-the-counter Benadryl cures itching, sneezing and other allergy-related symptoms.<\/li>\n<li>Clonazepam: Prescription Klonopin is used to treat seizures and panic- and anxiety-related disorders.<\/li>\n<li>Diazepam: Prescription Valium is used as a sedative for panic- and anxiety-related disorders.<\/li>\n<li>Nordiazepam: Metabolized Valium<\/li>\n<li>Temazepam: Prescription Restoril is a sleep aide commonly used in hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>Oxazepam: Prescription Serax is used as a sedative for panic- and anxiety-related disorders.<\/li>\n<li>Lorazepam: Prescription Ativan is used as a sedative for panic- and anxiety-related disorders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Evidently, some of this stuff was being injested because of a painful abscess in her butt, the result of . . . intramuscular injection of HGH or B12 for &#8220;longevity&#8221; treatments! Well played!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, I mentioned the amazing tox breakdown from Gerald Levert&#8217;s autopsy. I felt like Steve Howe really let us down by only having meth in his system when he flipped his truck last year. Fortunately, the Anna Nicole Smith tox report came out yesterday, and it&#8217;s restored my faith in drug-abusing celebrities: Chloral &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/us-pharmacopeia\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S. Pharmacopeia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmaceuticals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-mL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":352,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cocaines-a-hell-of-a-drug","url_meta":{"origin":1411,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Cocaine&#8217;s a hell of a drug . . .&#8221;","author":"Gil","date":"September 17, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"According to the coroner, Rick James had nine different drugs in his system at the time of his death, inclduing coke, speed, valium and vicodin: \"None of the drugs or drug combinations were found to be at levels that were life-threatening in and of themselves,\" the report said. 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