Michael Meyden is accused of making the smoothies with benzodiazepine, a drug typically prescribed for anxiety, according to a probable cause affidavit.
An Oregon man accused of spiking smoothies with sedatives and giving them to his daughter’s pre-teen friends has been charged with multiple felonies, according to court documents.
Michael Meyden, 57, of Lake Oswego, allegedly drugged three of his daughter’s friends while they slept over on the night of Aug. 25, 2023, according to court documents and a probable cause affidavit filed this week in Clackamas County.
The girls, all 12 years old, were hospitalized and tested positive for benzodiazepine, described in the affidavit as a drug typically prescribed for anxiety, with common prescriptions under the names Valium, Xanax and Klonopin. Benzodiazepines are a depressant that produces sedation, sleepiness and a relaxed mood, the affidavit said.
Shitty article writing. He didn’t spike their drinks with ‘benzodiazepine’, he spiked them with ‘a benzodiazepine’.
‘Benzodiazepine’ isn’t any specific drug, it’s a structural class of drugs
Looks like you’re right. I was expecting it to be like amphetamine, where it’s both a class and a specific compound.
The poor writing is academic, the story is horrifying. But the horror of the story had already been commented on, so I was nitpicking.
Amphetamine is a shortening of a specific structural name, and is the example for the class of similar drugs, while benzodiazepine is a more general structural name for drugs that have linked benzene and diazepine rings; all of the drugs of interest have different functional groups, and there’s no ‘base’ drug that they’re modifications of