Is it just my conspriracy theorist mind at work, or is this case just TOO similar to a plot on ER a few years back? It is well known that the DEA and Partnership for a Drug Free America gave (forced) ER and other well watched TV shows plots and situations to use in their scripts, all dramtic, simplistic and tragic drug related tales. Much of the time these plots are outside the realm of reality, yet the shows do what they are told. And people believe. I have no fondness for Meth or Meth users, but this story is almost too perfect. The mother cleans up her drugs rather than call help for her baby ect. (And this is a mother who, supposedly, takes the time an effort to breastfeed?) Who are the "people" mentioned who helped her clean house? People who are reducing their own sentences or plea bargaining for submitting evidence about this case? Of Dextroamphetamine, a related compound, Hale says, ".....although milk plasma ratio appears appears high, using a daily milk intake of 150 mL/kg/d, the weight ajusted relative infant dose would only be 6.7% of the maternal dose, which probably account for the fact that the infant in this study was uneffected." The pediatric concern include insomnia, anorexia, ect, but not death. This implies to me that a toxic dose to a child, via human milk, would require an almost 20 times higher dose to the mother. If amphetamine can kill, then this mother would have been dead long before she could have transfered any of the dose to her child. I, for one, am suspicious. Could be just an other DEA-PDFA scam? They have been know to plant stories in the media before. It wouldn't be the first time. (Baby in the oven and the turkey diapered in the crib, for anyone who remembers the made up garbage "news" stories released in the 70s?) With National interest on Terrorism and the Economy, perhaps the DEA and PDFA America feel a little left out. Perhaps this story did happen, but I am reserving judgement. I find it hard to believe that the baby could have gotten enough amphetamine to kill him and the mother (who they are saying the drug came through) was uneffected, and alert and coherent enough to clean up her home before police arrived. (And if we really are dealing with a baby who REALLY died of SIDS, could the "clean up" story be being used to explain that there were no drugs found in the woman's home so she could be set up? As it appears no drugs were found.) Theorizing, Mary Jozwiak IBCLC, RLC, LLLL, AAPL (Once a great fan of the X Files.....) *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html