Police say man used horse tranquilizers to sleep

[May 21, 2009]  BATESVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Sheriff's deputies said a man used horse tranquilizers to try to drift off into sleep at a Batesville motel.

Deputies said the man was taken to the hospital around 6 p.m. Tuesday. Inside his room, deputies said they found syringes and three bottles of horse tranquilizers.

Deputy Anthony Carter said the man told him he used the drugs as many as five times that day to help him go to sleep.

Veterinarian Mark Williams told the Batesville Daily Guard that the drugs the man used likely used are dangerous and tightly controlled. Williams said the man is "lucky to be alive."

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Information from: Batesville Guard, http://www.guardonline.com/

[Associated Press]

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