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Friday, May 3, 2013Psycho's Alive and Deadly As Usual
PAIN PILLS take another star.
University of Oklahoma football player Austin Box died from an accidental mix of powerful drugs, according to the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office.oma
A toxicology report performed on Box, who died May 19 after collapsing
at a friend's house, revealed Box had five separate pain-killers and an
anti-anxiety drug in his system at the time the 22-year-old football player
died. The toxicology report said the University of Oklahoma player had the
following drugs in his system: oxymorphone, morphine, hydrocodone,
hyrdomorphone and oxycodone and the anti-anxiety drug alprazolam in his system. The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office said
the probable cause of Box's death was pulmonary edema and aspiration pneumonia
that likely was the result of mixed drug toxicity.
Box was found unconscious in an El Reno, Oklahoma home in May. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A 911 call to police from J.T. Cobble, a friend of Austin Box, told police, He takes pain pills, and he's not responding to me.
The parents of Austin Box released a statements that read:
There is no greater pain than the loss of a child, the statement from
his parents said. The pain is intensified by knowing that the death of your
child could have been prevented.
It is with much sadness; we look back and see that recently Austin had
turned to other methods of managing his pain. Methods that we hope if others
are employing, they will see this tragic accident as a message and think about
the consequences. Our greatest regret is that Austin did not feel he could
share his pain with those who loved him, and those he touched. He chose to
suffer in silence rather than to feel he let someone down, or hurt his family.
