FDA Panel to Vote on Painkiller Restrictions
• NY Times''It can happen to anybody, but it's very rare,'' said
an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. ''Obviously it's important that we improve the communication
about these products because they are ubiquitous, and we still see
people inadvertently overdosing.''
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"