An Oregon man who drugged his daughter and her friends with fruit smoothies laced with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison.
Michael Meyden, a 57-year-old from the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego, apologized during his sentencing Monday after pleading guilty to three felony counts of causing another person to ingest a controlled substance, The Oregonian reported.
“My whole life is destroyed,” he told the court. “Everything that was important to me up until that point is gone.”
The article says he used “benzodiazepine” but that isn’t a drug. That’s a class of drugs
Does it matter? They’re not a single one that it should give to 12 year olds.
Especially someone else’s 12 year old!
Did I suggest that? Not sure why you’d think I’d be saying that
If you’re going to tackle medical issues as a journalist, you should use accurate language. Poorly written technical content will always suffer, regardless of the point of the article
Ah yes, because it matters if it was diazapram versus alprazolam. The pharmacology is effectively identical… a headline stating “benzos were given to children” is a lot more clear than and obvious than “children given klonopin”
Yup, either of those would be much clearer than what is written
If benzodiazepine is in a drug it’d probably be a good idea not to give it to someone unless you’re a doctor writing a prescription then, yeah?
Benzodiazepine is not a drug. That’s like saying “painkiller” is a drug.
Nobody says “I took NSAID” or “I took opiate”.
If you’re sad, you don’t take SSRI, you take an SSRI
I tell people I’ve taken an NSAID. I tell people I’m on an opiate. I tell people om stimulants.
Thanks, that’s my point!
Your point is that people do say they take classes of drugs?
No? My point is they do not say that?
You’ve seriously never heard someone say “benzos” before or you’re trolling?
Yes they do. Never heard of the opiate crisis? And Benzodiazepine is the combination of 2 chemicals which make the ingredients for the class of drugs you’re referring to.