Maura Murray

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Shack wrote:

The "judging" is not based on content, as it should be..it is based on the author...(you'll notice)

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Beagle wrote:

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BELOW FROM: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2354...
The real problem with drugs like Tylenol is that the difference between a therapeutic (that is, medically effective) dose and a toxic one is surprisingly small. In adults the maximum safe dosage is four grams (eight 500-milligram tablets) over a 24-hour period. The toxic dose is a mere seven grams taken all at once.
You can make the margin even thinner by drinking too much and eating too little. I'll spare you the biochemistry, but basically acetaminophen and alcohol in combination overwhelm the liver's ability to remove toxins from your bloodstream. At the same time, starving yourself reduces the liver's output of glutathione, a natural detoxicant produced in response to food.
The upshot is that heavy drinkers (two or more drinks per day) who don't eat can suffer worse liver damage from Tylenol than people who OD on purpose. Of 71 patients treated at a Dallas medical center for acetaminophen overdose,
50 were attempted suicides
and 21 were victims of an accidental overdose (Schiodt et al, New England Journal of Medicine, October 1997). The would-be suicides on average took twice as much of the drug as the accidental victims. Yet far more of the latter went into a coma (seven versus three) and died (four versus one). Why? Because most of the accidental victims were alcoholics. Five people--three accidental victims, two attempted suicides--overdosed on less than four grams, the claimed safe dosage for 24 hours.

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aftermath wrote:

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Beagle,
People abuse drugs such as alcohol...street drugs/illegal drugs, medications (otc and Rx). Many will abuse whatever they can get their sweet little hands on. This doesn't make them bad people. They just like using and abusing. Then enjoy altering their mood. Why would someone intentionally use Tylenol to OD? It's available without a Rx. It's easy to get...can steal it out of mom's medicine cabinet or purchase it oneself. Why do people do what they do? Why do people huff gasoline? It seems that a lot of people find what they like doing and then "do it" until it kills them. HOWEVER, many people use medications like Tylenol to help with pain and use this medication appropriately. If Maura had Tylenol in her car like many other people she was most likely using it appropriately for pain. Let's try to stay positive. There are much easier ways to off oneself than resorting to OD. Let's not push the suicide theory when it is a very remote possibility.

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aftermath wrote:

Something to consider. A lot of people, myself included had focused on the idea that it was strange that Maura would drive a car that was in rough shape on a fairly lengthy trip all of that distance into NH. The other strange piece is that it seems there was an idex card w/a map(?)with directions to Jigger Johnson campground (this index card was in Maura's favorite book which was found in the Saturn). Unless this was a map from years earlier when she needed directions to this place, why would she have this map with her? Had she used the index card all of these years for a bookmark? Wonder when her father had given her this book...

Jwb wrote:

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Jigger Johnson is closed in the winter

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aftermath wrote:

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jwb,
I know it is closed during winter. Possibly the map was for someone else who had met her near the campground. She may have previously let this person borrow the book. She certainly would know the directions to that campground after having visited the place for years.

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jwb,
I know it is closed during winter. Possibly the map was for someone else who had met her near the campground. She may have previously let this person borrow the book. She certainly would know the directions to that campground after having visited the place for years.

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Jwb wrote:

ok mr mrs judger- you only confirm the point that there is an agenda because you offer nothing of interest. You my friend are a looser and have nothing to offer but a click of the mouse. Any ionfo on maura might I ask or is that an afterthought of yours?