Coroner Urges Government to Take Action Over Websites Which Sell Drugs Without Prescriptions

A coroner has written to the government to urge them to take action to prevent further deaths after an American law professor died after buying sedatives online without a prescription. Kimberly Liu, 40, was found by at her home in London on Feb. 7, 2023 by her husband who called an ambulance but paramedics confirmed she was already dead. An inquest last year concluded her death was caused by “mixed drug toxicity.” The assistant coroner for north London, Ian Potter, said: “Post-mortem toxicological analysis revealed numerous prescription-only medications in Dr. Liu’s blood at the time of her death. Some of these medications had been prescribed by Dr. Liu’s general practitioner and were at or about therapeutic levels, whereas other medications, which had not been prescribed by her GP, were found at levels suggestive of excessive use.”...