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So People Die Of A Prescription Drug Overdose In x Minutes??

posted 13 years ago by bootblack987
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Kelly leaves the stage, goes to her dressing room and locks the door. Everyone else is hanging out in the main room until Beau realizes Kelly is not around and fears she is alone and might be doing herself some harm. He finds her passed out in her dressing room.

The movie makes it seem like she has been in her dressing room for 10 to 15 minutes. Maybe an hour at the most? For a concert that big, wouldn't there be medical staff on site? If not for the performers and staff, then for the thousands and thousands of people in the audience? Could they have done something to make her vomit up the pills she had swallowed?

I just don't understand how someone could die so quickly. If paramedics arrived on scene in an ambulance, would they have been able to pump her stomach in her dressing room? I thought that people who die from drug overdose do as after many, many hours after taking the drugs...?

[–] New_malkatrazzz 13 years ago

No, it wouldn't be many many hours. It didn't give an actual timeline so it's impossible to know how many minutes it actually was that she was in her dressing room. I think pills start to enter your blood stream in like 15-20 minutes, so if she was in there ten minutes...not really long enough for her to be unresponsive. I get the feeling it was more like 40 or so minutes. Ten is a very short amount of time. I've spent that much time going to the bathroom to fix up my make-up.

If she took a lot of narcotics or other cns depressants it's conceivable that she would be dead within an hour.

Also, depending on how long it had been, the pills may may not still be in her stomach and so pumping her stomach or making her vomit may not be effective. If enough pills have already been digested, the ones left in the stomach are inconsequential because the drugs are already coursing through her veins.

I honestly don't know if medical staff would be at the concert site--probably. But I don't know.

Also, the hospital scene wasn't necessarily immediate either. The doctor could've been working on her for awhile before she died, we don't really know. Or she could've been dead on arrival.

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[–] apocalypse_please24 13 years ago

Also, the hospital scene wasn't necessarily immediate either. The doctor could've been working on her for awhile before she died, we don't really know. Or she could've been dead on arrival.

The way that scene was shot made it look like it had been awhile, with her husband waiting I mean.

[–] bootblack987 13 years ago

malkatrazzz, thank you for your response. I guess she had been in the dressing room longer than it appeared, which is why Garrett Hedlund's would have reacted in such a panicked way. If it had just been 10 minutes, he would have been a lot calmer.

[–] kittyboodles 13 years ago

When Kelly leaves the stage and locks herself in her dressing room, the scenes afterward are showing the stadium empty of people, one reporter is saying "earlier tonight..." Also the After-Party for the others was in full swing, along with photos and post show interviews going on. It's at some point after the photos and during the after party that Beau notices Kelly isn't around.

This could put the time line at about an hour?

Either way, depending on what and how much she took, if she mixed it with alcohol and so on, even 10 minutes is enough time for the damage to be done. We don't know if she was dead in the room or if if she was too far gone to be brought back.

Many years ago, while working in an ER, parents brought in their teenage daughter who had taken an entire large bottle of Tylenol in a suicide attempt. The girl did not even really want to kill herself, she wanted only to make herself sick enough and wanted attention. Sad thing was, the damage was done to her liver and system, she had no chance even if there had been a liver ready for transplant that very hour, it was too late. I was working a double and her room was next to the x-ray room so it was not hard to hear what was going on and what was said, and it haunts me to this day.

My point is, that sometimes it isn't long before the damage is done, or death happens. Sometimes it's seconds, moments, hours or days.

[–] monifest 12 years ago

Her body was so damaged from all the years of alcohol and drug abuse, she probably did go kind of quick.

[–] Ginger42256 12 years ago

In real life I think depending on what you take it could take hours.
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