14-year-old girl dies after being injected with heroin by 26-year-old man

[Cali_Democrat]

By Associated Press

A 14-year-old Alaskan girl has died six days after she was allegedly injected with heroin by a 26-year-old.

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Warner tried to inject Jena, but failed, so he had her lie down on his bed and hold out an arm, then used his belt as a tourniquet and shot 25 to 30 units of heroin, taking several times to find a vein, the papers say.

The two witnesses told authorities they left the Jena on the bed and found her the next morning, face down in her own vomit.

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Warner initially did not want to call 911 because of fears authorities would find drugs, and instead gave the teen Suboxone, a prescription drug used to treat opiate addicts, according to the court papers.

He only called 911 after Jena began to convulse a couple of hours after he gave her the Suboxone, the papers say.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080107/Jena-Dolstad-14-dies-days-injected-heroin-Navy-veteran-Sean-Warner-26.html

[Broderick]

1. how sad

[Ecumenist]

2. This is next to the worse way to die in my eyes. Why the fcuk would he do that?

I hope that they put him UNDER the jail.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. He SHOULD go to jail for life IMO.

I can't believe he didn't call 911 immediately. He was too worried about himself getting busted for drugs while he essentially let her die.

[Ecumenist]

8. This is past horrific

Talk about being selfish beyond belief.

[Saving Hawaii]

10. Ehh, I can think of a lot of bad ways to die.

Burn victim. Lung cancer. Solitary confinement. Those are bad ways to die. Heroin OD? Dying sucks, but that's not a particularly bad way to die. Get a nice feeling of euphoria, pass out, and never wake up again. Not trying to diminish the girl's death. It's sickening that this jerk was too self-concerned to even get her real medical help when she desperately needed it. There was a lot that could've been done for her and she shouldn't have died. But heroin OD isn't a bad way to go.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. poor child. sad.

[virgogal]

4. Madness !

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Horrifying, all of it...

[Nikia]

7. Suboxone is a narcotic, not an anti narcotic

He made it more likely that she would die.
It is too bad that his friends couldn't do the right thing and call 911 either.

[Saving Hawaii]

11. Suboxone is a narcotic, but it's weak and reduces the effects of other narcotics.

It binds to the same receptor sites that heroin would, and does it better than heroin does (making it difficult for heroin to bind) but it doesn't activate a lot of the sites it binds to. That's what I mean when I say it's weak. It's also given alongside (in the same pill) naloxone which is an opiate blocker. Clearly not the right medication for this, she needed straight naloxone and a lot of it, but it was in the right direction. Then again, he could have ODed her on suboxone. You know, got the tab from his 300-pound friend with a big-time opiate tolerance and gave it to a tiny 14 year-old girl with no tolerance. But the thing that killed her was probably the heroin. Nasty drug, that one.

Sad that this sort of thing happens.

[jessicasiny]

9. so sad

so sad

[AsahinaKimi]

12. This is very sad...

I have no words..