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An autopsy report released Thursday determined that the third of four Michigan women to die this year at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility took her own life by acute aspirin poisoning.
The report, completed at the Michigan Medicine Pathology and Clinical Laboratories in Ann Arbor, concluded that Ashley Hoath had a salicylate level of 80 mg/dL in her blood when she died June 6, a concentration considered severely toxic. Pill fragments were also found in her stomach.
Generally, the “therapeutic range” for salicylate – the active ingredient in pain relievers like aspirin — is between 10 and 30 mg/dL. Levels above 70 mg/dL can be toxic…