Drugs linked to death
NZPA-Reuter Palm Beach, Florida David Kennedy, the troubled son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, had died last month as a result of “multiple drug ingestion”, officials said yesterday. David Bludworth, the state’s attorney for Palm Beach, Florida, told reporters that Mr Kennedy, who was 28, had died in his hotel room on April 26 as a result of taking cocaine, the pain-killer, Demerol, and the strong anti-psychotic tranquiliser, Mellaril. Mr Bludworth announced the arrest in Massachusetts and Rhode Island of two young hotel doormen whom he alleged had sold cocaine to Mr Kennedy. It was the first time that an official had publicly given the cause of Mr Kennedy’s death. A medical examiner’s report had not been made public because of a continuing police investigation. The Mellaril had been
prescribed for Mr Kennedy by a drug-treatment centre he bad attended in Minnesota. Mr Bludworth said that be did not know yet how Mr Kennedy had obtained the Demerol. Mr Kennedy was the third-oldest of Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s 11 children and had suffered for years from alcohol and heroin addiction.
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