I also wanna add that this was "journalism" at its worst.
Reporting this as a suicide attempt was in exetremely poor taste and judgement.
You are talking about a guy's reputation here, and I doubt that even his family was aware of what was going on, and probably heard about the "suicide" attempt on tv or the net.
I realize that his antics have made him fair game of sorts for people to report on, he craved attention, even negative attention and you reap what you sow.
But I really feel that this was over the line. Maybe its because I immediately remembered my reaction to the one time I ever took pain killers(obviously Gander had the same thing happen, sounds identical to my reaction). Trust me, had anyone come an checked on me as I was wretching and then observed me staggering down the street to buy a 64 ounce sugared coke and sucking the whole thing down through a straw in my living room and then witnessed me crawling to my bed, they woulda called 911 on me as well.
Nobody deserved what this guy got today without a full check of the facts. Just reprehensible actions by the press.