RFK granddaughter, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, died of drug overdose

Okay, DL doctors - with the exception of the alcohol, of course, it sounds like she was on drugs for which she had a prescription; it doesn't really say if her blood alcohol was excessively high. Was it simply that alcohol pushes one over the edge or were there other factors at work?

I suppose it's a millenial thing, but the list of drugs she was on makes her sound like a 40 year old prostitute, not a bright young woman from an affluent family.

I never believe all of any article published by American media.

Methadone is a highly-controlled C-II substance only prescribed for severe chronic pain or heroin detoxification. All the other drugs mentioned are metabolites of the SSRI antidepressant Prozac (fluoxetine) and the benzodiazepine anti-anxiety and muscle relaxant medication Valium (diazepam). Since the article mentions Ms. Hill's self-published struggles with mental health and a previous suicide attempt, obviously she was under the care of a psychiatrist. She probably committed suicide, but that's unknown until I can read her autopsy report. Any combination of alcohol and just one of the drugs found in her system can cause death. An overdose of methadone alone can cause death. OP, you sound like a typical, judgmental DLer. Mental health affect all classes and races.

Mental health *problems* affect all classes and races.

Available data indicate that the manner of Ms. Hill's death was suicide and her cause of death was combined drug intoxication.

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I TOLD her to stay out of my nightstand.

Stupid little non-hacker.

What r2 said. It was known that she (most likely) committed suicide, andit sounds like perhaps she used booze -- in combination with her other meds -- to do it. So this report is actually totally unsurprising.

What an entitled family.

She could no longer handle everyone mis-pronouncing her first name.

Just out, the medical examiner ruled the manner of Ms. Hill's death as Accidental. Accidental overdose my eye! A university Senior with psychiatric history does not take Methadone, Prozac and Valium with an alcohol chaser without knowledge of the probable result. I wager that the M.E. ruled her death accidental so a Kennedy and family would not have "Suicide" on a death certificate.

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Methadone is given to opiate addicts. That’s its only use (other than for chronic intractable pain which I don’t think applies here.)

Kennedy family is cursed!

MDs are no longer prescribing valium except to senior citizens or for really severe anxiety that is unresponsive to other drugs. Valium has been linked to dementia, and has been associated with horrific rebound anxiety. If she had valium in her system, she likely did NOT get it from her PCP. Antidepressants were undoubtedly prescribed but they don't generally produce any kind of euphoria or mind altering. I can't imagine she would have taken those except as prescribed, cuz there'd be no reason to. But if she took a bunch of valium AND alcohol, it depressed her respiratory system and killed her.

R17 It wouldn’t take “a bunch” of Valium + methadone + alcohol to kill her. A little bit of all 3 would do it. The combination is what’s lethal, not the amounts.

R10 Well some of them

R12, well duh. I was not emphasizing dosage. Only that she was using drugs recreationally and did not die by accidentally reaching lethality with the addition of alcohol.

Methadone is what Howard K. Stern used to kill Anna, Anna, Anna, Anna, Anna Nicole. And her son, too.

[quote] MDs are no longer prescribing valium except to senior citizens or for really severe anxiety ...

... or for Kennedys.

“Neely, you know it's bad to take liquor with those pills.”

“They work faster!”

I had valium before surgery. It was used as a muscle relaxant.

I had valium before surgery. It was used as a muscle relaxant.

[quote]I had valium before surgery. It was used as a muscle relaxant.

Gurl, you in danger.

HA HA HA I'LL SAY!

Another RFK grandchild in danger!

The granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy and her 8-year-old son were missing on Friday after they took a canoe out into rough waters on Chesapeake Bay, near Annapolis, on Thursday evening.

Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, and her son, Gideon, rowed the canoe out around 4 p.m. to fetch a ball that had been kicked into the water by children playing in their yard, Maeve’s husband, David McKean, told The Washington Post. “They just got farther out then they could handle, and couldn’t get back in,” he said.

Kennedys tend to think they’re supermen and women.

Defying the odds and weather.