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The smokinggun.com reports the autopsy of Michael Hasting. From the smokinggun.com: A toxicology screen revealed
“a small amount of amphetamine” in Hastings’s blood, which was
“consistent with possible intake of methamphetamine many hours before
death." However, the amount detected was “unlikely to have an
intoxicative effect at the time of the accident.” Additionally,
“marijuana was present in the blood…indicating intake hours earlier.”
Also according to the story Hasting: While Hastings’s history was not known to include “suicide attempt/s
or ideation/s,” his brother said that his sibling “believed he was
‘invincible,’ believing he could jump from a balcony and would be okay.”
Hastings’s brother added that he “would not be surprised if any
stimulants were found within the residence, including cocaine.”
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Here is the full story Posted in http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/autopsy/michael-hastings-autopsy-867904
The family of journalist Michael Hastings was trying to get him into
drug rehab at the time he died in a fiery Los Angeles car wreck,
according to a coroner’s report released today.
Hastings, 33, was speeding when he “apparently lost control of his
vehicle colliding with a tree head-on in a center grass median” around 4:30 AM on June 18. “Death was rapid, within seconds” due the “massive blunt force trauma” endured by the writer.
The L.A. coroner’s report notes
that Hastings’s family told investigators that they were attempting to
get Hastings into detox since they thought he “had started to use drugs
again in the past month or so.” Hastings was believed to have been sober
“for about the past 14 years.”
A brother told a coroner’s investigator that he believed Hastings was
“currently using DMT,” a hallucinogenic, and medicinal marijuana, which
“was believed as prescribed for PTSD, as decedent was a war journalist,
having had assignments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in Baghdad a few years
ago.”
A toxicology screen revealed
“a small amount of amphetamine” in Hastings’s blood, which was
“consistent with possible intake of methamphetamine many hours before
death." However, the amount detected was “unlikely to have an
intoxicative effect at the time of the accident.” Additionally,
“marijuana was present in the blood…indicating intake hours earlier.”
Hastings’s brother also told investigators about a prior traffic
accident during which the journalist “collided into a pole several years
ago, believed as under the influence at the time, with report decedent
had been misusing Ritalin.” Hastings, the coroner reported, “was
ultimately institutionalized for rehabilitative care” around 1999.
While Hastings’s history was not known to include “suicide attempt/s
or ideation/s,” his brother said that his sibling “believed he was
‘invincible,’ believing he could jump from a balcony and would be okay.”
Hastings’s brother added that he “would not be surprised if any
stimulants were found within the residence, including cocaine.”
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