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Did those close to him know/suspect drug use before his death? Just trying to gauge the plausibility of the accidental overdose theory.

pionar 13y ago
According to the medical examiner's report[0], Jack's girlfriend and a friend told the investigators that he "would take opiates and use Xanax," and that he "would drink and occasionally use cocaine". So the answer is yes. [0] http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3803095/barnaby_jack_autopsy_report_san_francisco_medical_examiner.pdf http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3803095/barnaby_jack_autopsy...
- joshstrange 13y ago
  Are there any other sources that he was a user other than her? I'm not trying to pull out my tin foil hat but if I had gone to all the trouble to fake an OD I'd pay the GF off (and/or threaten) as well to say he had done it before.
  - rdl 13y ago
    JFC, have you never been to a hacker con? Drinking and drug use is not exactly rare.
    - joshstrange 13y ago
      No, I have never been to one before. I was just asking a question, sorry if it was a stupid one.
      - rdl 13y ago
        We can't prove that he wasn't killed by space aliens. On the other hand, the explanation is on its face quite plausible, and the level of evidence which would need to have been fabricated to support another theory is far beyond the plausible benefit to anyone in misleading the public as to his cause of death. Drug and alcohol use, even to "dangerous" levels, is probably 20-30% of the high-profile people in the hacker scene (or, really, people in the tech scene in SFBA in general), at the very least. If Barnaby were a known teetotaler, one of the hundreds of people who knew him pretty well would have stepped forward. Given that they haven't, you can assess with high confidence that this is what it looks like, rather than a grand conspiracy.
  - sanswork 13y ago
    The fact that none of his friends have come out against the claim is probably a good one. No one is going to go speak to the press or police about their friend and say "Ya he had drug issues" unless they have to. But a lot of people will go out and say it's wrong when it is.
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- Zigurd 13y ago
  So the ME tested for the presence of these in his blood?

pionar 13y ago

According to the medical examiner's report[0], Jack's girlfriend and a friend told the investigators that he "would take opiates and use Xanax," and that he "would drink and occasionally use cocaine". So the answer is yes. [0] http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3803095/barnaby_jack_autopsy_report_san_francisco_medical_examiner.pdf http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3803095/barnaby_jack_autopsy...

joshstrange 13y ago
Are there any other sources that he was a user other than her? I'm not trying to pull out my tin foil hat but if I had gone to all the trouble to fake an OD I'd pay the GF off (and/or threaten) as well to say he had done it before.
- rdl 13y ago
  JFC, have you never been to a hacker con? Drinking and drug use is not exactly rare.
  - joshstrange 13y ago
    No, I have never been to one before. I was just asking a question, sorry if it was a stupid one.
    - rdl 13y ago
      We can't prove that he wasn't killed by space aliens. On the other hand, the explanation is on its face quite plausible, and the level of evidence which would need to have been fabricated to support another theory is far beyond the plausible benefit to anyone in misleading the public as to his cause of death. Drug and alcohol use, even to "dangerous" levels, is probably 20-30% of the high-profile people in the hacker scene (or, really, people in the tech scene in SFBA in general), at the very least. If Barnaby were a known teetotaler, one of the hundreds of people who knew him pretty well would have stepped forward. Given that they haven't, you can assess with high confidence that this is what it looks like, rather than a grand conspiracy.
- sanswork 13y ago
  The fact that none of his friends have come out against the claim is probably a good one. No one is going to go speak to the press or police about their friend and say "Ya he had drug issues" unless they have to. But a lot of people will go out and say it's wrong when it is.
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Zigurd 13y ago
So the ME tested for the presence of these in his blood?