"Michael Jackson: They Don’t Really Care About Us
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So if the case was a homicide, why did the cops botch the crime scene and why did the newspapers remove the report?
"Coroner said to rule Jackson’s death a homicide; Records detail drug cocktail given for sleep" by Thomas Watkins, Associated Press | August 25, 2009
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Michael Jackson’s death a homicide and a combination of drugs was the cause, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press, a finding that makes it more likely criminal charges will be filed against the doctor who was with the pop star when he died....
Dr. Conrad Murray, a Las Vegas cardiologist who became Jackson’s personal physician weeks before his death, is the target of a manslaughter investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department. A designation of homicide means that Jackson died at the hands of another, but does not necessarily mean a crime was committed....
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Murray said he had been treating Jackson for insomnia for about six weeks with 50 milligrams of propofol every night via an intravenous drip. But he said he feared Jackson was forming an addiction to the anesthetic, which is normally used in hospitals only, and so he was attempting to wean his patient by lowering the dose to 25 milligrams and adding the sedatives lorazepam and midazolam.
That combination succeeded in helping Jackson sleep in the two days prior to his death, so the next day, Murray told detectives, he cut off the propofol - and Jackson fell asleep with just the two sedatives.
Then around 1:30 a.m. on June 25, starting with a 10-milligram tab of Valium, Murray said, he tried a series of drugs instead of propofol to make Jackson sleep. The injections included two milligrams of lorazepam around 2 a.m., two milligrams of midazolam around 3 a.m., and repeats of each at 5 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. respectively.
But they didn’t work.
Murray told detectives that around 10:40 a.m. he gave in to Jackson’s “repeated demands/requests’’ for propofol, which the singer referred to as his “milk.’’ He administered 25 milligrams of the white-colored liquid - a relatively small dose - and finally, Jackson fell asleep.
Murray said he remained with the sedated Jackson for about 10 minutes, then left for the bathroom. No more than two minutes later, he returned - and found Jackson had stopped breathing.
Never mind my distrust of the AmeriKan news media; this just sounds odd.
“There’s no surprise there’’ that death could result from such a combination, said Dr. David Zvara, anesthesia chairman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“All those drugs act in synergy with each other,’’ Zvara said. Adding propofol on top of all the other sedatives “tipped the balance.’’
The 25 milligrams of propofol Murray told police he gave Jackson the day he died “is not a whopping amount,’’ said Lee Cantrell, director of the San Diego division of the California Poison Control System. But by combining propofol with a cocktail of the other sedatives, known as benzodiazepines, it “may have been the trigger that pushed him over the edge,’’ Cantrell said.
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