It was apparently very obviously something other than alcohol.
Most ‘DUI’ statutes now are for ‘driving while impaired’ rather than ‘driving under the influence’ in order to cover problems with drugs.
I mean, that IS HAZMAT.
Given Tiger’s Hx of severe back injuries, most likely he was prescribed some type of opioid.
From the early reporting I’ve seen, he was stacking.
Opioids are awful. I was once prescribed them after a hernia operation. I took them once. Felt like my head was removed from my body. Afraid I’d hurt myself and not even know it. Took Tylenol instead and endured the pain for a few days. At least I could still think.
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Same for me. One pill was enough for me to never take it again.
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Woods told authorities that he was looking down at his cell phone and changing the radio station in his SUV, which caused him not to see a truck slowing down before his rollover crash last week on Jupiter Island, Florida.
The truck was towing a trailer. I’m interested in seeing whether the lighting on the rear of that trailer was adequate and properly connected.
Well, there’s not much excuse for that!
Late model Range Rover without the standard collision avoidance feature? I wonder how he was able to order it that way. My SUV is getting pretty old and I could not avoid collision avoidance when I bought it new.
Is lane positioning / driver assist standard on a Range Rover?
When I had my colon cancer surgery in 1996, I was initially put on ‘Patient Administered Morphine’ - when it was first set up - it DID NOT administer anything. After 8 to 10 hours of complaining that it was not working - they finally fixed it. After I took the first ‘hit’ from the machine and got the dose in me - I was subject to two worlds - the real world with my eyes open - and a world the was entirely different with my eyes closed. After another ‘hit’ or two, I complained it was putting me in a world I had no desire to be in. The nurses prevailed upon the doctor to ‘re-prescribe’ the IV administered pain killer that I was on when I went through the ‘Recovery Room’ that had me without pain and in reasonable understanding of my surroundings. This was administered for the next few days - if it was slowly pushed into the IV no problems. If it was rapidly pushed into the IV my mouth and tongue felt like copper pennys.
In all my future surgeries - Tylenol and only Tylenol, probably in much more frequent usage that the instructions call for.
Oh, you’d better not if you want to avoid one of the very worst deaths possible…
Paracetamol was made illegal in Europe many decades ago because of its pronounced but silent liver toxicity in high doses. How it was ever re-licensed as an over-the-counter drug is still a mystery to me. It is fine if taken in small doses over a short time, not having the side effects of NSAIDs. But if you make the mistake of 'much more frequent usage than the instructions call for, you WILL very likely suffer irreparable, ultimately very painful harm, without warning until you’re walking dead.
Opioids kill - faster and with more cruelty. How many MILLIONS of people are ADDICTED? Is Tiger addicted?
I don’t want to say anything more in this topic beyond it depends on usage: amount and duration
They do when abused, and I will be among the first to confirm that Janssen’s research into more and more lethal forms of fentanyl (to make a ‘more cost-effective’ medication) were terribly misguided.
But opioids are controlled substances, and where properly utilized there may be no practical alternatives that actually produce adequate analgesia. What they do not produce is a miserable, inescapable death from liver failure.
There has been extensive national reporting on the abuse of opioids and the pill mills and ‘pain clinics’ that ‘legally’ prescribe them. Reference Purdue Pharma -
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Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, faced massive litigation for its role in the opioid crisis, leading to a 2019 Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The lawsuits, initiated by numerous states and the DOJ, alleged fraudulent marketing and violations of kickback statutes. A settlement, largely driven by the Sackler family, involves restructuring the company into a public benefit corporation to combat the crisis, while the Supreme Court has reviewed aspects of the deal.
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I am not recommending Tylenol unlimited use for an unlimited amount of time.
I think you will find that fentanyl is safely used during surgery.
The US is one of relatively few countries that don’t have “rights for the dead” (no pun intended); in some countries, Casey’s decendents could have sued for the Dead defaming him publicly.
John Henry’s (of the song) family also but for unsafe work practices.
Historians believe the legend is based on a real person, likely a formerly enslaved man who worked on railroads in the 1870s. The story is most often associated with the construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad’s Big Bend Tunnel in West Virginia