IanG said:
Hmm Hutchy on The Footy Show said a former West Coast associate of Cousins was taken to hospital on the same night as Cousins with the same symptoms.
Correct Ian, and what Hutchy insinuated was that this other player
similarly mixed caffeine uppers with alcohol and sleeping tabs.
And here lies the BS we were fed over the Cousin's incident.
If the stuff taken was the same, then Cousins DIDN'T have an "allergic reaction to sleeping tablets" as the public was fed, but in fact, Cousins mixed alcohol with sleeping tablets. (With the possible consequences of Cousin's body eventually shutting down and him stopping breathing altogether)
So this wasn't the case of blaming the 'evil' medication of doing something to his system, but Cousins possibly taking part in the dangerous, and sometimes fatal exercise of mixing booze and pills.
Which means the shoulder of blame, and stupidity, should fall at Cousin's feet and not some drug company who have tested the safety of their drugs when they ARE NOT mixed with alcohol.
In this incident, the drug companies and medicines in general get a kick, and Cousin's comes out a victim...or an eventually winner.
This was a Cousins stuff-up, nobody elses. Pure and Simple.