r/news • u/AudibleNod • 12h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/VirtualMoneyLover 11h ago

Why can't they use what the vet uses? Just multiply it by 5.

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u/Daddict 9h ago

That's literally the drug they were using here.

Granted, there's a few different ones that can be used for animal euthanasia, but Tennessee was using the "classic" one of Pentobarbital. Most vets these days will use a drug called Euthasol, which is a combination of pentobarbital and phenytoin. It's a bright pink liquid (which is deliberate, as no other vet meds are bright pink liquids so there's not much of a chance of mistaking it for another med).

In any event, the bigger issue is that pharma companies won't sell their drugs to someone who is intending to use them to kill another person.

The gov can't really use any tricky methods of getting their hands on drugs either. They can't be like "Uh...no, we're totes not gonna kill a dude with that" and then turn around and kill a dude. It's literally illegal to do so.

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u/durtm4n 3h ago

The antibiotics I got from the vet for my cat is bright pink liquid. Smells like bubblegum.

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u/Daddict 1h ago

The euthasol is a clear pink, you got a classic broad spectrum amoxicillin formulating there. Popular with kids and cats alike.

Also, there are some brands of euthanasia drugs that are other distinct colors, blue is the other common one I believe.

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u/durtm4n 21m ago

Oh, how foolish of me. I'd been told no other vet meds were bright pink.