Falls ill, rushed to hospital.
When they try and help her with her medication, she refuses the diamorphine, just taking the methadone. She was suspiciously well sedated on that, alone.
Turns out she was selling all the diamorphine and half the methadone.
I suspect routine blood level checks were less than routine because she had hep b and c.
When you realise Shipman was using 50mg diamorph on his victims, it does make you think, doesn't it?
if she was on that for years, makes you wonder if the pharmacist involved ever intervened..you'd at least expect small dose reductions if the intention was for the patient to eventually become clean?!?!?
No surprise..It's been happening for years. The supervised methadone programmes created more addicts because we actually made them swallow stuff many of them had never taken before. See my long-lost posts on the forum regarding this. Strangely, no-one is prepared to address this age-old problem. Swept under carpets every time.
CD (diamorphine) overprescribing for addict
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