    ACCORDING TO INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CHART, THE DECEASED HAS A HISTORY OF I.V. DRUG ABUSE WHICH RESULTED IN BILATERAL BELOW THE KNEE AMPUTATION.  SHE LIVED AT A BOARDING HOME AND USED A WHEELCHAIR TO AMBULATE.  ACCORDING TO AN ADVOCATE AT THE BOARDING HOME, HER MOTHER SUPPOSEDLY CONTINUED TO ADMINISTERED I.V. DRUGS TO HER.
    ON JUNE 6, 1996, SHE A SEIZURE AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM.  TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED AND REVEALED THAT THE SEIZURE WAS DUE TO A LEFT MCA CEREBRALVASCULAR ACCIDENT.  SHE WAS ADMITTED TO MICU FOR FURTHER TREATMENT AND EVALUATION.  A DRUG SCREEN WAS PERFORMED WHICH WAS POSITIVE FOR COCAINE IN THE URINE.  TREATMENT WAS CONTINUED, HOWEVER, HER MEDICAL CONDITON CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE AND ON OCTOBER 23, 1996, AT 1:10P.M., SHE EXPIRED.