Sniffer succumbed to addiction
PA Auckland A habitual homebake drug-user who also sniffed chloroform-soaked rags succumbed to his addiction, the Coroner’s Court in Auckland was told. The coroner, Mr Stephen Osborne, said David Philip Wilkins, aged 28, deliberately inflicted himself with, a combination of ■ morphine and chloroform, but not under circumstances which would indicate suicide. Wilkins died on or about April 23 — last year. In statements presented to the Court, witnesses
said Wilkins had taken to sniffing chloroform as a way of alleviating his homebake habit. He was often found comotose with a cloth over his face. Friends had tried to hide the rags, but Wilkins "ranted and raved.” Wilkins, it was stated, was staying at the house of friends at Beachlands and sniffing the drug. The friends, one a nurse, left him in front of a heater. When they returned to the house Wilkins was not breathing. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and cardiac massage failed, the Court was told.
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