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Tuesday May 9, 2000; 8:49 PM EDT
Greg Craig: Elian Drug Charges 'Ridiculous'; Pediatricians Disagree
During an interview on a Burlington, Vt., radio station Tuesday
morning, the attorney for Elian Gonzalez's father, Greg Craig,
said that allegations the 6-year-old Cuban refugee has been
drugged by a Cuban doctor are "ridiculous."
WKDR-AM host Mark Johnson questioned Craig based on reports that
several anti-depressants were confiscated from Elian's personal
pediatrician, Dr. Caridad Ponce de Leon, while she was en route
to visit the boy nearly two weeks ago.
JOHNSON: There is this pediatrician who came and there have been
reports that some sort of medication was taken. You're hearing
the same thing I am. People are concerned that this kid somehow
has been given some sort of drugs. Any truth to that?
CRAIG: No. That's ridiculous.
JOHNSON: Do you know what was taken away from his pediatrician?
CRAIG: This was the pediatrician that Elian has had from birth
in the small town of Cardenas where he was born. And she was
invited to come to the United States because she was a familiar
person and a reassuring and a comforting person in Elian's life.
And she came - ah - I don't know what was in her medical bag but
obviously she was not informed that she could not bring the
medication that she generally carried in the event of some kind
of problem or illness. So those were taken away. I don't know
what they were but I do not ascribe, you know, sinister motives
to that event at all.
The medicines confiscated from Dr. Ponce de Leon on April 27 by
Customs officials at Washington's Dulles International Airport
were reportedly Milltown, Diazepam and phenobarbitol, sedatives
that some suspect were used to mask the traumatic aftereffects of
Elian's gunpoint abduction last month.
Photos released by Craig just hours after the Clinton
administration snatched Elian from his Miami home showed him
smiling and hugging his father as if nothing had happened. Craig
has cut off all independent media access to the Gonzalezes,
fueling speculation that Elian may not be adjusting to his new
life as well as the Clinton lawyer suggests.
Two doctors contacted by NewsMax.com on Tuesday disputed Craig's
claim that the sedatives found in Dr. Ponce de Leon's medical bag
are routinely carried by pediatricians.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a pediatrician at the New
York University Medical Center said, "I would not expect to find
Milltown as part of a pediatrician's standard medical kit." The
NYU children's specialist said he hasn't heard of Milltown being
prescribed in the U.S. in years.
What about Diazepam, better known as Valium? "If it's oral, no -
not for a child. If it's in IV form, yes," said the doctor,
explaining that IV Valium is used as an emergency anti-seizure
medication for children.
"You might anticipate that somebody would use those drugs to try
to sedate somebody, but they're absolutely not considered
standard children's medication."
A second pediatrician in private practice on Long Island backed
the NYU doctor on the question of whether Milltown, Diazepam and
phenobarbitol are standard issue pediatric drugs, telling
NewsMax.com, "Those medicines wouldn't be in the average
pediatrician's bag. They're certainly not in my bag."
"To me it sounds very strange," the doctor added.
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