The problem with such incidents is that they're investigated by, reported on and subsequently ingested by people who have never experienced any type of "drug" and have no idea as to their effects except for the propoganda they read in filth like the Daily Wail.
Maybe the pill had something to do with it, maybe it didn't. The evidence tends to allude to good old fashioned incompetence. Just a shame he had to take an innocent party with him.