Terrell Owens Attempts Suicide

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens has told police he attempted suicide Tuesday night.

I just finished watching the police spokesman, and he said Terrell may have taken up to 40 pain pills, which he was on for a broken right hand. Two weeks ago Owens broke his hand during a football game against the Washington Redskins. Owens said he was depressed.

Owens’ publicist said he was hospitalized late Tuesday because of an allergic reaction to pain medicine he was taking for a broken hand. Doctors reportedly tried to induce vomiting. Emergency room doctors would do what is called a lavage. This is where they insert a large tube down Terrell’s throat and into his stomach, they then flush several 50 gram bottles of activated charcoal into his stomach to absorb what is left of the pills in his stomach, because vomiting is ineffective. Since most of the drugs were already in his blood stream by the time he got to the hospital, they can give him narcan to stop the pain killers already in his blood from being further absorbed by his cells. In other words, he is going to be fine.

The police spokesman said although paramedics were called, it was a medical situation, and not a crime. This means police don’t view it as a suicide attempt.