Enablers of the month: Daniel Schuler sues the state for his stoned wife’s accident and Barry Minkow’s doctor(s) gives him Oxycontin.
Enablers of the month:
Daniel Schuler, suing the state of New York for the accident in which his wife Diane Schuler drove her brother’s Ford Windstar the wrong way down the Taconic State Parkway in New York for nearly two miles before slamming head-on into an SUV, killing herself, four of the five children in her van and all three adults in the SUV (as seen in issue 50 August 2009 TAR). Suing for what, you might wonder? Why, the state’s “wrong way!” and “do not enter” signage wasn’t adequate and was, therefore, negligent, careless and reckless! Of course, his drunk and stoned wife, with a .19 per cent blood alcohol level and plenty of THC (think: active ingredient in marijuana) in her system at 10 a.m., was not at fault. (If she weighed 150 pounds and started drinking at 6 a.m. she would have had to consume a half liter of vodka to get to a .19 by 10 a.m.) Oh, and he’s also suing his brother-in-law for having let her borrow his van for the trip she took the kids on. I’d give odds that Daniel Schuler shares his wife’s disease. (Just another bit of evidence that when it comes to alcoholism, truth is far stranger than fiction.)
The idiot, an unnamed MD or MDs, who supplied Barry Minkow with the painkiller Oxycontin. Yes, Minkow had severe migraines. Regardless, you don’t give a known addict psychotropic drugs (ok, maybe you didn’t know—because you don’t know the behavioral indications of addiction. Sorry, I forgot they don’t teach that in medical school). I’m sure Minkow would agree the pain from headaches was far less painful than being locked up for another five years, especially since he was able to get clean once he learned he was under criminal investigation. Hey doc, he must have found another way to deal with his migraines. Now is that so surprising?