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Night Train to Oblivion: Anatomy of an American OD
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Leighton Woodhouse
RealClearInvestigations
By Leighton Woodhouse and RealClearInvestigations
7/31/2022Updated: 7/31/2022
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On the morning of the last day of his life, Adam Rashid called his parents to tell them he was about to be discharged from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. He had gone there the night before, just after being released from the county jail where he had been held for a month for failing to make a court appearance.

According to the doctor who interviewed him, Adam, a 25-year-old drug addict suffering from schizophrenia, said he didn’t have suicidal or homicidal thoughts but requested the anti-anxiety medication Klonopin. When the doctor told Adam they had no reason to keep him at the hospital, however, Adam changed his story, claiming to have access to guns and threatening to use them on his father and himself.

Leighton Akio Woodhouse is a journalist and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. Woodhouse has a Master’s Degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley and writes at LeightonWoodhouse.substack.com.
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