October 26, 2007
AT LEAST AGENT ORANGE REALLY DOES CAUSE ACNE:
Official cites drug misuse in death, not 9/11 toxins (Amy Westfeldt, 10/26/07, Associated Press)
The city's medical examiner concluded that the misuse of pills, not the dust of ground zero, caused the lung disease that killed a man who became an example of post-Sept. 11 illness, the examiner's spokeswoman confirmed yesterday.Posted by Orrin Judd at October 26, 2007 6:34 AMChief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch concluded that James Zadroga, a retired police detective, got the lung disease that killed him by injecting ground-up pills into his bloodstream, leaving traces of the pills in lung tissue, spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said. [...]
A New Jersey medical examiner had ruled last year that Zadroga died from inhaling toxic ground zero dust, but the family asked Hirsch for a second opinion - and a ruling that would add Zadroga to the official Sept. 11 victims' list.