Possible Clues:

• Put under?
• Tranquillized
• Out
• Fully satisfied with journalist being tranquillised
• Gave a goofball
• Drugged - stone dead on missing fix
• Calmed down, being outwardly sensible and old-fashioned
• Comatose on the settee, perhaps, taking in 'Howard's End'
• Under, in the OR
• Daughter's sitting around under the influence of drugs