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10-25-2007, 12:58 PM
Oct 25, 2:40 PM EDT
Doctor: Drug Use Caused 9/11 Cop's Death
By AMY WESTFELDT
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 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 a nationally known example of post-Sept. 11 illness, the examiner's spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.
Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch concluded that retired police detective James Zadroga got the lung disease that killed him by injecting ground-up pills into his bloodstream, leaving traces of the pills in the lung tissue, spokeswoman Ellen Borakove told The Associated Press.
"It is our opinion that that material entered his body via the bloodstream and not via the airways," she 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....http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ATTACKS_HEALTH?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
Doctor: Drug Use Caused 9/11 Cop's Death
By AMY WESTFELDT
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 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 a nationally known example of post-Sept. 11 illness, the examiner's spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.
Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch concluded that retired police detective James Zadroga got the lung disease that killed him by injecting ground-up pills into his bloodstream, leaving traces of the pills in the lung tissue, spokeswoman Ellen Borakove told The Associated Press.
"It is our opinion that that material entered his body via the bloodstream and not via the airways," she 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....http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ATTACKS_HEALTH?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US