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The widow of the late Paul Gray has claimed that a wrongful Xanax prescription killed her husband and that his Slipknot band mates didn't care.
The statement was made during the trial of Gray's doctor, Daniel Baldi of De Moines, Iowa, who stands accused of nine counts misconduct leading to death. He is being prosecuted for prescrining anti-anxiety Xanax to Walker, a substance that he had struggled with throughout his life. It was this prescription that allegedly led to his death. Meanwhile the defense deny Baldi issued the prescription in this case and the eight others.
"I just knew it was his drug of choice, that he'd struggled with it. So I just wasn't really sure why he was on it, why he needed it along with the medication he was taking for addiction," Paul's wife Brenna Gray told the Polk District County Court.
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According to Brenna the prescription caused his addiction to once again spiral out of control, leading friends and family to stage an intervention. However this just led to him leaving and checking himself into the hotel where he was found dead two days later. Brenna said she was terrified of contacting the police in case that the drugs that were kept in the house led to her unborn child being taken away.
During her statement she said that she attempted to appeal to Paul's Slipknot bandmates but that they appeared disinterested and didn't seem to care. "One was playing golf two minutes away from our house but couldn't come," she said. "Nobody else cared, nobody was involved. They told me it was my problem."
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