Talk:Rachel Whitear

A fact from Rachel Whitear appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 November 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the parents of Rachel Whitear allowed a photograph of her dead body to be used in a campaign against heroin?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/November.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:09, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Foetal position

Didn't one of the autopsies find that she was placed in the foetal position after she had died, to make it look like an overdose? This would tie up with the toxicology —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.103.163.11 (talk) 16:26, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Toxicology

I'm a little confused -- the page talks about the toxicology result finding heroin in her bloodstream, but looking for heroin, specifically, is very unusual in a toxicology lab. Every lab I've ever heard of will search for morphine and/or 6-monoacetylmorphine. I've never even heard of a lab that tests postmortem blood for heroin.

Also, I question the number (0.15 micrograms/Liter) given as a fatal blood concentration. As far as I've ever seen (and according to Baselt), there is no such thing as an established fatal concentration of heroin. It is also very difficult to establish a fatal concentration of morphine, as individual tolerance can play an enormous part -- a concentration that would be ten times the fatal level for one individual may be a steady-state concentration for a hardcore user.

Thirdly, if the result given in this article is for morphine (and not heroin), then it is important to distinguish whether the concentration is for unbound morphine, or whether the result includes morphine-glucoronide as well (total morphine). Concentrations of the latter can be more than an order of magnitude higher than the concentration of unbound morphine alone. 206.194.127.112 (talk) 22:17, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

206.194.127.112 uses "0.15 micrograms/Liter". This might be a mistake for "milliliter". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.194.200 (talk) 13:35, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]