Prior to this, the only case of accidental anti-depressant overdose that I
knew about was the British musician Nick Drake.
The coroner's verdict at the time was suicide, but that verdict was
contested by the family, who believed it was accidental. This was in 1974,
and anti-depressants of the time - tricyclics - were dangerous; the
therapeutic dose is close to the toxic dose.
Cheers,
Paul
P.S. His album Pink Moon is pretty amazing. ^_^
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From: "Jim O'Connell" <[email protected]>
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His death was later ruled to be the result of an accidental overdose of
anti-depressants, which, frankly, I didn't know was possible.
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From: Mike Koval <[email protected]>
Sent: Dec 17, 2010 6:48 PM
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Subject: [Deadpool] Splendor no more
It's been a while, but still list worthy, since I don't think it's
been posted. I found out from Time magazine fer crisssakes!
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13 Jul 2010
Harvey Pekar, who died on Monday aged 70, was an eloquent American
chronicler of the mundane and often dispiriting events that inevitably
mark most lives; his tales of Everyman were all the more affecting for
being rendered not in heartfelt novels, but in the comic book form
usually reserved for the exploits of superheroes.
Though compared to Chekhov and Dostoevsky, Pekar himself was anything
but a superhero. Even after his autobiographical stories were
transferred to the big screen in the film American Splendor (2003) he
was unable to revel in triumph: "I'm too insecure, obsessive and
paranoid for that," his character said in a cartoon.
His themes were anxiety, existential insecurity, and a niggling
certainty that life was out to get him. "If there is something to
worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it," he once said
in an interview. "That can cut two ways. It can really keep you on the
ball but if you worry about every little thing it's not a good use of
time and energy."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/7888494/Harvey-Pekar.html
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