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Erectile Drug Complicates Teen's Booze-Party Death

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(Newser) – A northern California coroner's report revealed two surprises about the recent booze-party death of a 16-year-old boy: he wasn't drunk and he had ingested high levels of an erectile dysfunction drug, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Now investigators want to know if Joseph Loudon was slipped the drug, or deliberately took it before choking on his own vomit.

Authorities say they haven't heard of teens using the prescription drug, papaverine, recreationally. Three people linked to the party have been arrested for supplying alcohol or fake IDs to minors. The teen's dad, Bill Loudon, said whatever happened that night "cost him his life and cost me my son."

Joseph Loudon's blood-alcohol level was only .03%, but contained high levels of papaverine.
Joseph Loudon's blood-alcohol level was only .03%, but contained high levels of papaverine.   (Getty Images)
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I have no idea how Joe might have obtained the drug or why it was in his system. It is not a drug that was in either my house or that of his mother. - Bill Loudon, father of dead teen
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atomick
Jul 27, 09 7:23 AM CDT
Somebody probably sold it to him as a different drug. Reply
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BeatBlaster
Jul 27, 09 9:36 AM CDT
That's exactly what I was thinking too.....
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riffran
Jul 27, 09 7:57 AM CDT
at 16, who the hell actually needs a drug for THAT...hell I needed one to do the opposite.."Mr riff would you please come up to the board and solve this math problem...*panic*.....Uh no thanks I uhhhh uhhhh have a stomach ache"...lol Reply
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BeatBlaster
Jul 27, 09 9:37 AM CDT
Only other thing I can think of is maybe he was taking the ED drug to counter the effect of another drug in his system but I would think there'd have been an announcement of other drugs in his system as well.
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schmidtkoff
Jul 27, 09 10:03 AM CDT
with commercials blaring like extenz - and those who feel they need such things for whatever reason, no wonder. it is a tragedy. a young man like this 16 yr. old certainly doesn't need a drug for ed. Reply
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