Woods Medical Chart: Overdose

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

Tiger Woods OVERDOSE? OD Listed On Hospital Chart
Tiger Woods Took Drugs, Alcohol? Vicodin, Ambien, Alcohol Were Suspected, Report Says

TMZ reports that Tiger Woods was listed as an overdose when he admitted to the hospital following his post-Thanksgiving car accident. According to the article, his charts are marked "OD" and a note says he was having difficulty breathing.

This follows up with reports from earlier today that the investigating officer at the crash scene requested a subpoena to look into Woods' medical records after suspecting that Woods had taken Vicodin and Ambien and had drunk alcohol.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/08/tiger-woods-overdose-od-l_n_383644.html

[polichick]

1. Makes sense, considering the neighbors' statement about Tiger snoring. nt

[aquart]

2. So he got in an SUV and passed out?

That's what caused the accident?

[polichick]

4. Don't know, but the neighbor said that when he was on the ground he was snoring. nt

[dionysus]

41. i read that it wasn't regular "snoring", but rather the sound of an unstable airway, i guess they

had to put aan oxygen tube down his throat...

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

6. Imagine, had he made it out of his driveway

...he may have driven right through his neighbor's house.


In other breaking news, earlier this a.m., his mother-in-law, who is staying with Tiger and Elin, was rushed to the hospital.

[Holly_Hobby]

37. Look at the crash sketch

He hit bushes and shrubs before he hit the fire hydrant and tree. Looks like he was wasted.

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[undeterred]

3. Glad he didn't kill anyone in that condition.

[wtmusic]

5. I feel sorry for him.

No amount of money can buy peace of mind. Hope he doesn't end up like Jacko.

Flame away.

[Cal Carpenter]

8. Curious why you picked 'Jacko'

as a reference point instead of one of dozens of other stars who died before their time with substance problems?

[KatyMan]

10. I can't speak for wtmusic, but I would imagine because

MJ was the most recent?

[wtmusic]

18. I hereby authorize KatyMan to speak for me. nt

[KatyMan]

40. As the person authorized to speak for you,

I would not personally advise allowing me to speak for you. I've been officially labeled a Grump by pretty much everyone I know, and that could get you into trouble by proxy.

[wtmusic]

42. Perfect! I've been looking for a proxy grump. nt

[tavalon]

46. Yep, it's generally not a good idea to authorize any other DUer to speak for oneself

We are an inherently unstable, pissed off group of people. If we weren't, we would be spending our time happily blissed out on antidepressants and Dancing With The Stars instead of rabble rousing on here.

[Kalyke]

9. Why would you feel sorry for someone who cheats on his wife,

then gets into a car loaded so he can potentially kill someone? (allegedly)

Not a flame, mind you. I'm just not sure why you - or anyone - can feel sorry for someone who hoisted himself by his own petard.

[wtmusic]

16. Tiger is exposed to stresses and temptations like I've never known

Yes it was irresponsible, and if it happened all the time with him it would be a different story. But he's obviously wrestling with some personal demons at the moment, and I wish him the best.

[polichick]

25. It did happen all the time - he's cheated for several years...

...even through his wife's pregnancies. This doesn't appear to be new.

[wtmusic]

27. No excuses

but I'll reserve judgement until I've been exposed to that kind of temptation.

[Frank Booth]

32. As posted below, it's very possible that if he took Ambien, he had no idea

what was going on, and didn't knowingly intend to drive at all.

[tavalon]

47. Yep. I'm not sure how I do it, but I've programmed myself that I never

get in the car when I've taken Ambien. I've done every last other thing while on Ambien. If it didn't work so damn well for my intractable insomnia, I wouldn't touch the stuff. My hubbys get so amused that I carry on coherent conversations with them and then have no memory of it. I've gone out blackberry picking while on it (the blackberries apparently won that match, if my scratches and purple stains were any indication). The list goes on and on. But my subconscious doesn't allow getting behind the wheel, thank the Gods.

BTW, I do have two hubbys. I'm not a cheater, nor are they. We're polyamorous. I like my husbands' other girlfriends and they like me. We're one big weird ass family.

[Catherine Vincent]

30. Who is this Jacko?

:eyes:

[Ocracoker16]

7. Ambien is known to cause sleep driving

When Patrick Kennedy crashed his car into a security barrier outside the Capitol, he had taken Ambien and something else earlier. He had no memory of the accident.

[LuvNewcastle]

11. Ambien caused me to sleepwalk.

I wandered into a neighbor's house. I'm lucky I didn't get shot.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

12. Drug addict and a sex addict...???

He played a portion of last year on a surgically repaired knee that doctors advised him not to play on. He was in excruciating pain at the US Open when he had to play 19 playoff holes against Rocco Mediate. That would explain the Vicodin.

According to an earlier report, he used Ambien to enhance his sex life. Apparently, "Ambien sex" is the shit.

[Ganja Ninja]

13. Still taking Vicodin 2 years after his knee operation?

Sounds like he might have a problem.

[Kansas Wyatt]

14. Okay, here's the story....

Upon learning that a radical bunch of groupies on the prowl for a reality show had teamed up and was attempting to blackmail Tiger into paying them off for their silence, with a television show, about their alleged sexual encounters with him, Tiger was upset and distraught over the nightmare ordeal and the toll it was taking on his family. Being without sleep for days, he took the drugs listed in the report and washed them down with a nightcap, just so he could fall asleep and get a good nights rest.

In the early morning hours, Tiger started sleep walking and then got into his vehicle. Upon hearing the vehicle start, his wife desperately rushed downstairs and tried to wake him. Tiger had shut all the doors when he got in and engaged the vehicle in drive, which locked all the doors. His wife was in a panic to awaken the sleeping Tiger, so she found a golf club in the garage and pounded on the vehicle to wake him up and then tried to break a window out, behind him to get to him. As Tiger's speed increased, his wife could not run fast enough to keep up. Eventually Tiger, who was sleeping, slammed into a fire hydrant, then ricocheted into a tree. When the vehicle came to a stop, his wife heroically rescued the sleeping Tiger from the vehicle.

End of story.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

15. possibly, but he couldn't have ricocheted into tree

...he had to drive into it based on the location of the tree and location of the hydrant impact on his car. But it looks like your greater point is very probable: it's starting to like the wife had been acting heroically outside.


Edit: Based on what Kansas Wyatt laid out--parts of which are probable--I wouldn't rule out suicide. That's quite a potent cocktail. Anyone would know that. He can't possibly be that ignorant.

[Kansas Wyatt]

17. I started writing it as a smartass...

But the more I thought about what I wrote about his wife, the more sense it made.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

19. re: the cocktail

That's quite a potent cocktail. Anyone would know that. He can't possibly be that ignorant. I don't rule out suicide.

[tavalon]

48. One ambien, two vicodin and a single drink is not a potent cocktail

to someone who has been taking it a while. It's not smart, but it's not that potent either.

[Cali_Democrat]

20. Poor guy

Hopefully he can get his drug habit under control.

[Solomon]

21. Correct me if I'm wrong. Aren't you one of the ones who's always

saying wait until you know the facts? Didn't take much for him to have a drug habit all of a sudden.

I apologize if I have you mixed up with someone else.

[Cali_Democrat]

22. I haven't been posting a lot lately so you probably have me mixed up with someone else.

However, I have read somee articles online where people are suspecting it's a drug addiction. He may be hooked on the pills he was taking after his knee surgery.

[WillowTree]

23. If, in fact that's in his medical record, someone is guilty of a flagrant HIPAA violation.

And if that's the case, whoever it is needs to be found and prosecuted.

[cbayer]

24. Totally agree. I hope they are fully prosecuted for this. nt.

[ecstatic]

26. He was fleeing a golf stick wielding psycho

I'm sure he would have preferred to be sleeping in bed as opposed to driving under the influence.

[TexasObserver]

28. What next? Did he call wine "Jesus Juice" and say "that's ignorant" a lot?

I've never seen anyone go off the rails this fast.

This is the problem with insane success. Elvis. Michael Jackson. Tiger. These are people surrounded by people who cannot rein in the star. They don't have brakes.

[CBGLuthier]

29. OUR BUSINESS: NONE OF

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

31. Under new drug policy, I can't imagine we'll see Tiger in 2010...

maybe not in 2011, either.

Vicodin and Ambien? I follow tennis. Players get banned all the time for prescribed medications in their inhalers.

Golf didn't just implement their own standards. To become an Olympic sport, the PGA pretty much adopted the World Anti-Doping Agency’s drug policy in whole, with the 2 exceptions being seroid-containing medication for severe bronchitis. Golf executives say they have no bearing on one's performance in their sport.

[tkmorris]

33. Not gonna happen. Not a chance

You seem to be suggesting the PGA will ban Tiger for 2010, and maybe 2011. Trust me you can forget that idea right now. Tiger is literally the best thing that EVER happened to the PGA Tour, and they know it. Whatever Tiger might deserve, suspending him is cutting their own throat. They may try to save face somehow but they can't suspend him.

If Tiger started a competing tour starting in April it would decimate the PGA Tour overnight.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

36. It's out of their hands...

...it's in WADA's hands.

By now, all players have heard the one guy they can't beat has an affinity for Vicodin and Ambien. They can't wait until he's gone, not for good, but for a year or two. Already, Tiger's sponsors have pulled all their ads since the incident surfaced. That's not helping the sport or his sponsors.

It might be in the best interests of all to take a long hiatus.

[tkmorris]

38. WADA has no ban on Vicodin or Ambien

And it wouldn't make sense if they did. Neither enhance performance in any way, and both are legal prescription medications that at a guess better than 50 PGA Tour members have a prescription for.

As far as I can see WADA has no say here.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

39. I took "all opiates" to include Vicodin

BANNED SUBSTANCES

Except for the opiates, none of these pain medications are banned substances. All opiates are banned due to their negative effects on psychomotor performance and actions that require speed. Opiate agonists appear on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) 2005 list under the category "S7. Narcotics".

http://www.athleteinme.com/ArticleView.aspx?id=306


But I'll ask around. I don't see it's chemical names in the 2008 WADA list.

[cark]

44. Punishment

Instead maybe the PGA should make him play a full schedule as punishment and as restitution for all the money these 'indescressions' has cost the PGA. ;) j/k

[dysfunctional press]

34. i haven't had any alcohol in 10 years due to my chronic pain meds...

if i had the same scripts when i was 20 years younger, i probably would have partied myself to an extra-early grave.

[earth mom]

35. What I don't get is how celebrities are able to get so many drugs out of their doctors.

I can barely get antibiotics from my doctor and whenever I have needed a painkiller, it's been like pulling teeth to get it and then they give me weakest dose they can perscribe!

:argh:

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

43. Gatorade drops Tiger

Gatorade ends Tiger-themed drinks, says move preplanned

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/golf/pga/2009-12-08-tiger-woods-gatorade-sponsor_N.htm?csp=34

[undeterred]

45. Isn't medical information supposed to be CONFIDENTIAL?

This is pretty damn scary.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

49. Are subpoena's public? I dunno

The Request for Investigative Subpoena Form has been posted. "The witness" is the wife.

http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_documents/1207_tiger_woods_wm.pdf


TMZ: As we first reported, it was Elin Nordegren who pulled Tiger from the crash and told cops he had taken medicine (but she didn't know when) and even brought the pill bottles to the EMTs.