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Title: Yet more stupidity
Post by: oldcoastie6468 on November 29, 2013, 04:10:53 PM
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Psych Student Jennifer Whiteley Dies Of Drug OD While Celebrating New Job Aiding Drug Users

By Jonathan Vankin, Thu, November 28, 2013

A 27-year-old woman in England who was in training to be a psychologist and had already published articles in a medical journal, died of a drug overdose while she was celebrating her new job — working with drug users.

A coroner’s inquest in South Manchester found this week that in July, Jennifer Whiteley had nine different drugs in her system, including a so-called “legal high” known as Benzo Fury, when she broke into profuse sweats and collapsed with a rapid heartbeat at her parents’ home in Greater Manchester while partying with her 29-year-old boyfriend, Andrew Tunnah.

In addition to ingesting Benzo Fury — and amphetamine-like “designer drug” which Whiteley reportedly purchased over the internet before it was outlawed in the U.K. — she had been drinking vodka and snorting cocaine.

The day before, she was offered a job with a division of Britain’s National Health Service — the country’s government-run health care system — where she would help patients who abused drugs and also those who suffered from depression.

 ::whatgives::   ::smallestviolin::   ::doh::

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/psych-student-jennifer-whiteley-dies-drug-od-while-celebrating-new-job-aiding-drug-users# (http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/psych-student-jennifer-whiteley-dies-drug-od-while-celebrating-new-job-aiding-drug-users#)
Title: Re: Yet more stupidity
Post by: AmericanPatriot on November 29, 2013, 08:00:50 PM
As my dear departed daddy used to say, "no use being dumb unless you show it"
Or, as my daughter's shop teacher says "stupid people do stupid things because they're stupid"
Title: Re: Yet more stupidity
Post by: Septugenarian on November 30, 2013, 10:35:10 AM
A Darwinian event.
Title: Re: Yet more stupidity
Post by: OldSailor on November 30, 2013, 10:50:14 AM
A Darwinian event.

Agreed, but not Darwin Award quality ... there was nothing spectacular about her self-inflicted demise.  My sympathies lie with her parents.
Title: Re: Yet more stupidity
Post by: Libertas on December 01, 2013, 11:41:42 AM
Karma is not without irony.