An Oregon man who drugged his daughter’s friends with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison.

An Oregon man who drugged his daughter and her friends with fruit smoothies laced with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison.

Michael Meyden, a 57-year-old from the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego, apologized during his sentencing Monday after pleading guilty to three felony counts of causing another person to ingest a controlled substance, The Oregonian reported.

“My whole life is destroyed,” he told the court. “Everything that was important to me up until that point is gone.”

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
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    25 days ago

    The article says he used “benzodiazepine” but that isn’t a drug. That’s a class of drugs

    • zaph@sh.itjust.works
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      25 days ago

      If benzodiazepine is in a drug it’d probably be a good idea not to give it to someone unless you’re a doctor writing a prescription then, yeah?

      • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
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        25 days ago

        Benzodiazepine is not a drug. That’s like saying “painkiller” is a drug.

        Nobody says “I took NSAID” or “I took opiate”.

        If you’re sad, you don’t take SSRI, you take an SSRI

    • Lowpast@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      Ah yes, because it matters if it was diazapram versus alprazolam. The pharmacology is effectively identical… a headline stating “benzos were given to children” is a lot more clear than and obvious than “children given klonopin”

      • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
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        25 days ago

        Did I suggest that? Not sure why you’d think I’d be saying that

        If you’re going to tackle medical issues as a journalist, you should use accurate language. Poorly written technical content will always suffer, regardless of the point of the article