Women Commits Suicide By OD’ing On Celexa, Effexor
Remember when the new generation anti-depressants came into the world in the late-80s and 1990s and one of their supposed advantages over older anti-depressants was that a patient couldn’t use them to overdose and commit suicide a la Nick Drake, the great singer-songwriter? Well here’s the sad, tragic case of Kimberly Hatch, a 40-year-old woman in New York who killed herself last year by OD’ing on anti-depressants.
“The results of an autopsy and toxicological examination have determined the cause of death to be from respiratory suppression with pulmonary edema, secondary to a drug overdose, a release from the state police says.
“The drugs present that caused the overdose were determined to be Celexa and Effexor, medications prescribed for depression and anxiety, the release adds. Alcohol was also present.”
I’ve not heard of too many cases where newish anti-depressants were determined to be the cause of death by overdose. So much for anti-depressants being safe in this respect. Tragically so.
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