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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Not to mention they may not be guilty. There are a lot of rumors going around that the school was so quick to find someone accountable that they rounded up students who are not guilty. Lets see what happens. Clearly the school and authorities are taking this seriously, as they should, so we don't have to play judge and jury.[/quote]

Two of the students already admitted their guilt on possession [i]with intent to sell[/i], to the police. Those were recorded in the affidavits. You can actually download those, and the court dockets, from the Middletown Police / State of Connecticut. All four students were found in possession of multiple drugs (most of which were not included in the "bad batch" mixture). So on simple possession of illicit substances (not dealing) it will be hard for any of them to beat the charges. It's a fact that they had that stuff in their dorm rooms.

Then on the more serious charges about the "Molly" mass-overdose:
The questions of who made the drugs, who mixed the drugs, who directly sold the drugs to the victims (as opposed to merely conspiring to sell drugs, etc.) - all those are still unknown. That will be the crux of the prosecution and the defense.

[quote]Plus if you are going to rant about hospitalization for drugs you can't ignore that there are far more hospitalizations and deaths associated with alcohol.[/quote]
Have you ever worked in the emergency department of a university hospital? I have.

You are correct to point out this fact. Many students are harmed or die from alcohol poisoning, because it is the most-popular recreational drug in universities. But alcohol was not relevant in this particular case, as demonstrated by the toxicology reports from Hartford Hospital.

My perspective on drug overdoses is somewhat different, since I have seen many people dead or dying, in person, in the university hospital wards. In the morgue, I also participated in the autopsies of two, twenty-something-year-old, young people, who died of drug overdoses. One death was accidental, and the other was intentional.

[quote]Way off base to call these students sociopaths. You don't seem to know what that word means.[/quote]

I know what the word means, and I don't retract the statement. I would tell the children's parents the same thing to their faces: "this is a [i]sociopathic[/i] activity, and it is a perverse idea that your son/daughter could ever hold a medical license".

My suggestion would be to read the court documents mentioned above (on the factual aspects), or possibly a dictionary of the English language (on the semantic aspect). :mrgreen:

Innocent until proven guilty, fair enough. [/quote]

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