Left after Breakfast» Snippet http://www.afterbreakfast.org Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:48:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Whoa to drugs from Wu http://www.afterbreakfast.org/2011/03/03/whoa-to-drugs-from-wu/ http://www.afterbreakfast.org/2011/03/03/whoa-to-drugs-from-wu/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:05:13 +0000 Susanna http://www.afterbreakfast.org/?p=512 In a tale that many mainstream media outlets are attempting to use as a political smear campaign, the story of US Rep. David Wu’s severe negative reaction to a common psychiatric drug speaks more about the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs than it does partisan politics.

Wu was hospitalised for severe reactions to an unnamed psychiatric drug which caused him to display erratic and strange behavior, including the sending of personal photos of himself in a tiger costume to his staffers.

Other odd behavioral events include excessive bouts of severe anger, demonstrations of impatience for no apparent reason, and even episodes where Wu disappeared and nobody was able to find him.

Wu has refused to identify the drug that led to his hospitalisation

Some reports speculate that the drug given to Wu by his campaign donor was Oxycodone, but Wu insists that he was unaware of what drug he took. Interestingly, oxycodone is among the top prescription drugs responsible for emergency room visits

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