Prescription Drugs... Killed My Daughter - Post Partum Depression - Wisconsin

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"Prescription Drugs... Killed My Daughter"

Updated:

Jan 12, 2010 6:32 PM CST

By Molly Hendrickson

The Brown County Drug Task Force wants to add an officer to deal

specifically with the area's growing prescription drug problem. It's a

problem that killed more than 100 people in Brown County in recent

years.

Tom Magnant hopes to spread a message after his 22-year-old daughter

died from an apparent overdose.

"My wife knocked on the door that day and there was no answer,"

Magnant recalled.

He had no idea then of the tragic news lying behind the door of his

daughter's home. In the center of the floor was his daughter Kristi,

"not breathing, no pulse."

"They just couldn't get her back," he said.

The new mother had been suffering from post-partum depression.

Magnant says looking at her text messages later revealed she had

been given an anti-seizure drug by an acquaintance and was told taking

a couple of the pills would make her uncontrollably happy.

"I believe it was prescription drugs that killed my daughter," Magnant

said.

Sadly, the story is not new to Brown County Chief Deputy

Gossage.

"One of the things we're seeing is some of the psychotropic drugs

that are used for psychiatric reasons," Brown County Sheriff's Chief

Deputy Gossage said.

Gossage calls the prescription drug abuse epidemic the "invisible

threat."

"The fad out there is called 'pharm parties,' which is kids going

into their medicine cabinet, throwing it into a bowl, and it's

haphazard," said Gossage, who compared it to play Russian roulette.

In the past six years, 113 people in Brown County have died from a

drug overdose.

Some had more than one drug in their system. Fifty-nine had painkillers

and 32 had methadone.

Magnant is still waiting for autopsy results on his daughter but hopes

Kristi's story helps someone.

"It's just so wrong, such a waste. This is a 22-year-old girl with a

healthy, beautiful nine-month-old daughter who now doesn't have a mom."

[Guest guest]

http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=11804970

"Prescription Drugs... Killed My Daughter"

Updated:

Jan 12, 2010 6:32 PM CST

By Molly Hendrickson

The Brown County Drug Task Force wants to add an officer to deal

specifically with the area's growing prescription drug problem. It's a

problem that killed more than 100 people in Brown County in recent

years.

Tom Magnant hopes to spread a message after his 22-year-old daughter

died from an apparent overdose.

"My wife knocked on the door that day and there was no answer,"

Magnant recalled.

He had no idea then of the tragic news lying behind the door of his

daughter's home. In the center of the floor was his daughter Kristi,

"not breathing, no pulse."

"They just couldn't get her back," he said.

The new mother had been suffering from post-partum depression.

Magnant says looking at her text messages later revealed she had

been given an anti-seizure drug by an acquaintance and was told taking

a couple of the pills would make her uncontrollably happy.

"I believe it was prescription drugs that killed my daughter," Magnant

said.

Sadly, the story is not new to Brown County Chief Deputy

Gossage.

"One of the things we're seeing is some of the psychotropic drugs

that are used for psychiatric reasons," Brown County Sheriff's Chief

Deputy Gossage said.

Gossage calls the prescription drug abuse epidemic the "invisible

threat."

"The fad out there is called 'pharm parties,' which is kids going

into their medicine cabinet, throwing it into a bowl, and it's

haphazard," said Gossage, who compared it to play Russian roulette.

In the past six years, 113 people in Brown County have died from a

drug overdose.

Some had more than one drug in their system. Fifty-nine had painkillers

and 32 had methadone.

Magnant is still waiting for autopsy results on his daughter but hopes

Kristi's story helps someone.

"It's just so wrong, such a waste. This is a 22-year-old girl with a

healthy, beautiful nine-month-old daughter who now doesn't have a mom."

[Guest guest]

http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=11804970

"Prescription Drugs... Killed My Daughter"

Updated:

Jan 12, 2010 6:32 PM CST

By Molly Hendrickson

The Brown County Drug Task Force wants to add an officer to deal

specifically with the area's growing prescription drug problem. It's a

problem that killed more than 100 people in Brown County in recent

years.

Tom Magnant hopes to spread a message after his 22-year-old daughter

died from an apparent overdose.

"My wife knocked on the door that day and there was no answer,"

Magnant recalled.

He had no idea then of the tragic news lying behind the door of his

daughter's home. In the center of the floor was his daughter Kristi,

"not breathing, no pulse."

"They just couldn't get her back," he said.

The new mother had been suffering from post-partum depression.

Magnant says looking at her text messages later revealed she had

been given an anti-seizure drug by an acquaintance and was told taking

a couple of the pills would make her uncontrollably happy.

"I believe it was prescription drugs that killed my daughter," Magnant

said.

Sadly, the story is not new to Brown County Chief Deputy

Gossage.

"One of the things we're seeing is some of the psychotropic drugs

that are used for psychiatric reasons," Brown County Sheriff's Chief

Deputy Gossage said.

Gossage calls the prescription drug abuse epidemic the "invisible

threat."

"The fad out there is called 'pharm parties,' which is kids going

into their medicine cabinet, throwing it into a bowl, and it's

haphazard," said Gossage, who compared it to play Russian roulette.

In the past six years, 113 people in Brown County have died from a

drug overdose.

Some had more than one drug in their system. Fifty-nine had painkillers

and 32 had methadone.

Magnant is still waiting for autopsy results on his daughter but hopes

Kristi's story helps someone.

"It's just so wrong, such a waste. This is a 22-year-old girl with a

healthy, beautiful nine-month-old daughter who now doesn't have a mom."

[Guest guest]

http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=11804970

"Prescription Drugs... Killed My Daughter"

Updated:

Jan 12, 2010 6:32 PM CST

By Molly Hendrickson

The Brown County Drug Task Force wants to add an officer to deal

specifically with the area's growing prescription drug problem. It's a

problem that killed more than 100 people in Brown County in recent

years.

Tom Magnant hopes to spread a message after his 22-year-old daughter

died from an apparent overdose.

"My wife knocked on the door that day and there was no answer,"

Magnant recalled.

He had no idea then of the tragic news lying behind the door of his

daughter's home. In the center of the floor was his daughter Kristi,

"not breathing, no pulse."

"They just couldn't get her back," he said.

The new mother had been suffering from post-partum depression.

Magnant says looking at her text messages later revealed she had

been given an anti-seizure drug by an acquaintance and was told taking

a couple of the pills would make her uncontrollably happy.

"I believe it was prescription drugs that killed my daughter," Magnant

said.

Sadly, the story is not new to Brown County Chief Deputy

Gossage.

"One of the things we're seeing is some of the psychotropic drugs

that are used for psychiatric reasons," Brown County Sheriff's Chief

Deputy Gossage said.

Gossage calls the prescription drug abuse epidemic the "invisible

threat."

"The fad out there is called 'pharm parties,' which is kids going

into their medicine cabinet, throwing it into a bowl, and it's

haphazard," said Gossage, who compared it to play Russian roulette.

In the past six years, 113 people in Brown County have died from a

drug overdose.

Some had more than one drug in their system. Fifty-nine had painkillers

and 32 had methadone.

Magnant is still waiting for autopsy results on his daughter but hopes

Kristi's story helps someone.

"It's just so wrong, such a waste. This is a 22-year-old girl with a

healthy, beautiful nine-month-old daughter who now doesn't have a mom."