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Live Aid founder Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches died of a heroin overdose, the same cause of death as her mother Paul Yates in 2000, Britain's Times newspaper reported on Thursday.
The model died suddenly on April 7, aged 25, but the autopsy proved inconclusive.
However, Detective Chief Inspector Paul Fotheringham is due to tell a hearing in Gravesend, Kent, later Thursday that toxicology tests showed she had died of a heroin overdose, the paper reported.
Peaches, who wrote for British magazines and newspapers and presented celebrity-driven television shows, was found dead at her countryside home where she was looking after 11-month-old son Phaedra.
Read More: http://news.yahoo.com/peaches-geldof-died-heroin-overdose-233916609.html
Egnever
(21,506 posts)These days.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)But still. Does anyone not get heroin is highly addictive? What in the world gets these folks started and where in the hell are they getting it from. I have not lived a sheltered life by any means but I have only come across someone trying to sell heroin twice in my 48 years.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)We passed welfare reform in the 90's and cut back on AFDC and made it harder to get.
But you could still get a Medicaid card and get opiates or benzos and then people started selling them and Adderal to make up the difference when they got cut off welfare.
Then they started cracking down on prescriptions after they had created tens of thousands of junkies, and, at least here then the gangs from Detroit and Columbus started moving large amounts of heroin to fill the void.
In a lot of rural America drugs are the only entertainment. I always noticed that the more rural, the less money, the less things to do the harder the drugs. I guess the same is true with the ghetto but I'm a country person.
Is the gov't involved? Don't know. But it IS interesting that back in the 80's when the US and Israel were in Lebanon we were flooded with cheap Lebanese hash. Then when the US was heavily involved in Central America we had the cocaine and crack epidemic. Now with the middle east and Afghanistan we have the poppies. Maybe just the chaos of war makes it easier to get it out.
One thing is for sure every time they have tried to crack down on pot thru blockade or drug testing or whatever the less bulky more dangerous drugs have got thru.
malaise
(268,885 posts)and lots of people are now filthy rich while others are hooked or dead.
Mosby
(16,297 posts)Developed from opiates.
Look around the internet, I'm sure you'll find an article or two.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Before we raided Afghanistan opium production was in decline. The farmers started growing again after we invaded because it was a good cash crop for them. Heroin is cheaper than many other street drugs these days.
malaise
(268,885 posts)Warpy
(111,234 posts)as well as with poor folks who have lost all hope. Numbing out and sleeping through life is their way to cope.
It's a symptom, not the disease.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Warpy
(111,234 posts)thanks to overlarge mansions, nannies, and prep schools. The parents see them between engagements as Mom tries to keep up with the competition from wannabe trophy babes and Dad chases more money for bigger, um, bragging rights.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)TYY
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...unless they were involved?
TYY
former9thward
(31,965 posts)The answer to your own question.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...unless someone has admitted to being there when she died.
Leaving the rig behind would suggest that she died alone by her own hand. By taking the rig, they've called attention to themselves and removed all doubt.
TYY
former9thward
(31,965 posts)Since it is not "murder" the cops will expend very little effort trying to find out who was there.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)Missing paraphernalia suggests otherwise.
TYY
former9thward
(31,965 posts)But since this happened April 7 I would think the police would have declared it such if they were so inclined.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)could be any number of reasons.
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)You can smoke it or snort it, it's less effective than injecting but it still works.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...and smoking it would have left behind paraphernalia.
TYY
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)It really pays to avoid all drugs that have an LD50
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...especially if it's China White.
TYY
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)Put drug in cigarette, flush baggie or whatever it came in down the toilet, smoke drugged cigarette, die.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)I was thinking of straws, tin foil and a lighter as paraphernalia. That, or a pipe.
TYY
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)She could have done it off the property like an old friend of mine always did or perhaps someone came over and they left with the paraphernalia.
People that do drugs often don't want there to be evidence of it in their home or where ever they're visiting especially those people in the public eye.
I'm not surprised at all that no paraphernalia was found.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)Her husband was conveniently somewhere else the night it happened and the police found no evidence to indicate method of ingestion.
Paraphernalia could be anything that suggested evidence of how the overdose quantity of heroin was ingested. A cigarette would have left a filter behind. Snorting might leave residue on a mirror or cd case or inside a straw....
He takes the 23-month-old and leaves her with the 11-month-old...while he does what? Why take just one child and not both?
She's left in charge of her 11-month-old son and decides to ingest a lethal quantity of heroin without leaving any clues behind? I'm just not buying it and I'm not buying the husband's alibi.
Call me a cynic.
TYY
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Warpy
(111,234 posts)Especially if she'd gotten an especially hot batch.
The route doesn't matter much, the quantity of drug does.
...but if she had snorted it, there would've been some kind of evidence left behind to indicate that she had just snorted a lethal dose of heroin.
The police indicated that there was no paraphernalia found which suggests that either they don't know or aren't saying how the lethal dose of heroin was ingested.
TYY
Warpy
(111,234 posts)The folding money went back into her wallet and the compact mirror got licked....and then she blissed out and died.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...about the circumstances surrounding the death of Peaches Geldof.
TYY
JI7
(89,244 posts)flvegan
(64,407 posts)All that really needs to be said.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Peaches Geldof is under police investigation after breaking a court order by naming two women who allowed their babies to be abused by paedophile singer Ian Watkins.
The daughter of Boomtown Rats star Bob Geldof tweeted the names of two women involved in the case.
The two children are guaranteed life-long anonymity and naming their mothers could lead to their identification.
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Doyle, Senior Investigating Officer from South Wales Police said:
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/peaches-geldof-facing-possible-police-investigation-after-tweeting-names-lostprophets-paedophile
Lostprophets star Ian Watkins admits trying to rape two babies
ROCK singer Ian Watkins yesterday admitted attempting to rape the babies of two fans, as well as ten other sexual offences.
Watkins, 36, now faces jail after admitted attempting to rape the 11-month-old baby of a fan "Woman A" and conspiring to rape the baby daughter of another fan "Woman B".
The two fans, 21, from Yorkshire, and 24, from Bedfordshire, are also facing jail after admitting their role in the sex offences on their own children.
Police fear there may be many more child victims across the world, as the former boyfriend of Children in Need presenter Fearne Cotton "exploited his celebrity status in order to abuse young children".
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/445274/Lostprophets-star-Ian-Watkins-admits-trying-to-rape-two-babies
100 were abused....She had enemies
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)for his crimes which means a conspiracy of fact. She brought the crimes to international attention vs just a british thing.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)The court privacy laws in the UK seem as much designed to protect the powerful as the powerless.
Sick society.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Pedophile GOP senate candidate arrested, indicted on 113 counts
http://www.examiner.com/article/pedophile-gop-senate-candidate-arrested-indicted-on-113-counts
The Franklin Coverup Scandal
The Child sex ring that reached Bush/Reagan Whitehouse
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/Franklin/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm
Arrest only a Tip of a Pedophile Network by WMR
February 10-13, 2014 SPECIAL REPORT. Washington, DC (WMR) Loskarn arrest only a tip of a pedophile network that includes Alexander, other Tennessee politicians
The December 11, 2013 arrest by U.S. Postal Inspectors of Senator Lamar Alexanders chief of staff Ryan Loskarn on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography in connection with international law enforcements Toronto-based Project SPADE, represents only the tip of an iceberg which connects Alexander to a network of Tennessee politicians and businessmen associated with child sex abuse.
Loskarn, who was released against the wishes of federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia Mi Yung Park to the custody of his parents in Sykesville, Maryland for being a suspected suicide risk, was found hanging in the basement of his parents home on January 23. Foregoing an autopsy, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Maryland in Baltimore concluded, based on a mere visual inspection of Loskarns body, that he had died from self-inflicted hanging.
http://www.roseanneworld.com/blog/2014/02/loskarn-arrest-tip-pedophile-network-wmr/