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Effexor kills more than just people using it
We have joined this forum seeking help. Not for our or other’s symptoms, conditions, or withdrawals but for help in creating a defense for a young man currently awaiting trial, charged with first degree murder. The State is seeking the death penalty.
Let me explain briefly the situation. We am limited on the details that we can share because this case is still open and because of the possibility of damaging the case. Real names are not give, real dates are not given. The information that is given is true to the best of our knowledge and most of it verifiable by autopsy results.
On June 5, 2007 James woke up to find his girlfriend Sarah, dead lying beside him.
James claims that he and her had been drinking the day before. He was drinking beer and Sarah was drinking wine. Sarah has a history of excessive wine consumption. James states that when Sarah was drinking, she would never just stop drinking. Instead she would drink until she passed out or went to bed. Sarah, not James, also smoked marijuana as regularly as her budget would allow.
When James lay down to go to sleep on the night of June 4, Sarah was still awake, smoking marijuana and drinking wine to excess. The known prescription drugs that Sarah would take for depression, anxiety, and a thyroid condition were Effexor (Venlafaxine), Levothyroine Synthroid, and Xanax. The autopsy showed ethanol in her blood and Venlafaxine. No other drugs were shown to be present including marijuana.
Five months earlier, mid February, Sarah was taken to a hospital ER for an Effexor overdose in a suicide attempt. She had consumed over 60 Effexor tablets and had been drinking alcohol. She was revived and released within 32 hours. Sarah had at least one other suicide attempt several years prior by leaping from a moving vehicle.
On September 2, 2007, James was arrested for first degree murder. The method he is accused of is strangulation. Based on the autopsy, Sarah’s left side of her neck, in an area of 2”x1” there were 10-15 tardieu-like spots with no pattern and scattered petichiae. No trauma to the right side of her neck.
As with any criminal case, there are many stories, reports and theory’s. Too many to print in this forum. The information shared above will hopefully be enough to help us in our mission. That is, to attempt to find similar cases or stories on sudden death involving Effexor, (Venlafaxine) mixed with alcohol. Documentation would of course be the most helpful, however, we have had little success in finding documented cases hence the need for help.
If any forum members have any information regarding death in this manner or any link ideas that may lead us to additional information, it would be very helpful in assisting us in saving the life of yet another Venlafaxine victim.
Thanks to all in advance.
Friends of James
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