DXM News: Calif. man confirmed dead of DXM...

[rfgdxm]

This post is a follow-up to the news report I posted here from a
California newspaper that stated the death of Erick Myrman was due to DXM. I
have contacted the coroner's office via telephone, and confirmed that he is
indeed dead. I will not be able to do a proper news report on this case
until the coroner sends me a copy of the coroner's report that I requested.
and I have evaluated it. However, I was able to find out that 3 different
drugs were involved in his death:

DXM
diphenhydramine (commonly sold under the brand name Benadryl)
alcohol

I did get over the phone the blood and liver levels of DXM and
diphenhydramine. However, at this time I want to make sure I got those right
before I publicly reveal them. I likely will also have to have those levels
reviewed by others to determine exactly how high they are. Suffice it to say
after doing a quick check the DXM blood levels appear quite substantial. The
alcohol level I will reveal, and that was a .15% BAC. This is at the falling
down drunk level. With him also taking diphenhydramine (which is an
anticholinergic drug, just like the chlorpheniramine in Coricidin), let's
say I am hardly surprised that he ended up dead.

Free hint folks: DON'T repeat the same mistake he did.

[libel]

amazing they would leave out the fact that sleeping pills and alcohol kill more people each year than dxm ever will.

[Walkaway]

It's not terribly amazing, but then, I'm old and cynical.

I repeat that the initial story was in fact pretty worthless.

[the ashtar]

This might be a silly question but why report DXM deaths at all? Its not like its a really impactful form of harm reduction or whatever.

[rfgdxm]

Originally posted by GARBAGECANJUNKIE@Aug 31 2004, 07:01 PM
It's not terribly amazing, but then, I'm old and cynical.

I repeat that the initial story was in fact pretty worthless.

You aren't the only one cynical, mon ami. There IS a reason rather than just accepting that news report as gospel truth I actually verified the facts. What I think happened is the reporter was covering the animal shelter aspect, and didn't consider exactly what drugs killed him important. A friend of the family just said it was DXM, and the reporter didn't question it. Not exactly stellar reporting that what was left out is that he washed down a lot of diphenhydramine pills with booze along with the DXM he took, but why sweat about little details like this?

[rfgdxm]

Originally posted by the ashtar@Aug 31 2004, 07:05 PM
This might be a silly question but why report DXM deaths at all? Its not like its a really impactful form of harm reduction or whatever.

How do you know? Just dextromethorphan.ws gets a few hundred unique visitors on a slow day. It may be that when I add this news report to my website, at least a few DXMers will get the hint that taking it at the same time as a lot of Benadryl washed down with booze is NOT a good idea. There are some trippers who consider if they end up in the morgue that is a decidedly BAD trip.

[dawhiterabbit]

i knew alcohol was the devil!!!!!

[Southwick]

why do you always put these in dxm discussion then tell mods to move it. Why don't you move them yourself, by putting them in their rightful place? You obviously know that they don't belong there so wtf?

[rfgdxm]

Originally posted by Orphan's Ghost@Aug 31 2004, 09:39 PM
why do you always put these in dxm discussion then tell mods to move it. Why don't you move them yourself, by putting them in their rightful place? You obviously know that they don't belong there so wtf?

Try making a post yourself in that DXM News forum.

"Sorry, you do not have permission to start a topic in this forum"

The software here isn't like a Usenet moderated NG, where you can post to a moderated forum and the post will wait in the queue for a moderator to check it. Thus the only way to get a post in the DXM News forum is to post it here first, and wait for a mod to move it.

[Paralysis]

I like rfg's reports. :P