Both morphine and propranolol are really bitter and bad tasting and if they were all over the straw he absolutely would have tasted it right away--plus it would take a couple of mL of solution to do the trick, so how did she manage to get that into him with just a straw? O_o On top of everything else, apple juice can mess with the absorption of beta blockers. Mom would surely have known all of that, especially if she was planning a pharmaceutical murder! Maybe Mom was giving li'l bro propranolol regularly *before* the fateful day ("here, for your 'anxiety' my son") so that he wouldn't taste whatever she doped the juice with? Propranolol can alter your sense of taste, though it's not a guaranteed side effect. Could that be why he was so into eating sour candy--'cause nothing else tasted like anything by that time??
Both morphine and propranolol are really bitter and bad tasting and if they were all over the straw he absolutely would have tasted it right away--plus it would take a couple of mL of solution to do the trick, so how did she manage to get that into him with just a straw? O_o On top of everything else, apple juice can mess with the absorption of beta blockers. Mom would surely have known all of that, especially if she was planning a pharmaceutical murder! Maybe Mom was giving li'l bro propranolol regularly *before* the fateful day ("here, for your 'anxiety' my son") so that he wouldn't taste whatever she doped the juice with? Propranolol can alter your sense of taste, though it's not a guaranteed side effect. Could that be why he was so into eating sour candy--'cause nothing else tasted like anything by that time??