Whitney Houston Autopsy – Cause of Death Revealed: Dr. Reef Karim on FOX Studio 11 LA
Whitney Houston Autopsy – Cause of Death Revealed: Dr. Reef Karim on FOX Studio 11 LA – Following the Whitney Houston Autopsy, Dr. Reef Karim breaks down the prescription medication and cocaine abuse that led to accidental drowning. Connect with Dr. Reef and share your thoughts: Web: www.doctorreef.com Twitter twitter.com Facebook: facebook.com Transcription: Dr. Reef: Hypnotics like Xanax and you’ve got Benadryl which is a sleeping medication, right? Host: It’ll put you to sleep, yeah. Dr. Reef: It’s an allergy medication that if I take even one Benadryl even if I’m in a fetal position in the corner you know, now… Robin: Coke, coke. You’re not asleep with coke. Dr. Reef: We’re geting to the coke, we’re geting to the coke. You add them all up and they synergistically work together to cause you to be super sedated. You could easily be so sedated on all of that medication that you just pass out and you end up drowning into a bath tub. Now, the kicker is which she’s saying, which is coke. So a lot of people think if you take enough sedatives and you go down, but you take coke and you come up, that you’ll be neutralized. But what happens is you develop tolerance when you’ve done cocaine for a long period of time. Host: And that she’d had, clearly, this have been a problem for her and her mom said that she was shocked that her daughter was using cocaine and that she had thought that she was sober that perhaps though the anxiety over this big comeback that was planned for her may have caused her to relapse again and as an addiction specialist you, I’m sure, see …
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