TRAZADONE: Man Pleads Guilty to Homicide After Baby Dies on Antidepressant
By Ann Blake-Tracy on December 14, 2014
Gene Richins, Sandy, UT
For years in Utah Prozac was known as “Sandy Candy” due to the extremely high use of Prozac in that city. Antidepressants continue to flow there even though this article does not say whether or not Gene himself might have been on one as well thus further complicating this case. What we do know happened is that while caring for his own baby and his girlfriend’s baby woke up.
The girlfriend had earlier taken her Trazadone and Xanax to go to sleep and was too sedated to be awakened by the baby’s cries. The boyfriend gave the baby some of his own baby’s prescription Tylenol mixed with some Trazadone to get her to go back to sleep. She was found unresponsive the following morning and pronounced dead.
This young man was arrested and charged with homicide in the death and his bail set at $1 Million! (Obviously another story there as to why on earth the would be a need to set a $1 Million bail in this case!)
But what is so very dangerous about Trazadone (Deseryl) is that too many are told that it is a sleeping pill when instead it is an antidepressant – a powerful antidepressant. In fact it is the same antidepressant that the Navy yard shooter was taking when he went on his shooting spree last year.
Had this young man known any of this about Trazadone (Deseryl) perhaps he would not have given this drug to the baby. Without question there needs to be stricter labeling on this drug and more disclosure to patients about the dangers.
jonathan Midlo
Jonathan Midlo
Jonathan Midlo, a young man in MN, knew his body could not handle the reactions from antidepressants and specifically told doctors to never give them to him because of that. But after several days of pushing long hard hours at work he was having trouble sleeping and saw his sister’s prescription for Trazadone in the medicine cabinet which said to take it for sleep. After taking it he became very agitated and a few hours later ended up taking his own life. This happened even though he was NOT depressed and was very happily engaged to be married soon…not in line with suicidal planning in any way. Clearly a toxic reaction to the drug. Had the bottle indicated it was an antidepressant he would have known not to take it.
To learn more about what happened in Johnathan’s case go to http://www.jonnyslaw.org/
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865617564/Sandy-man-pleads-guilty-in-death-of-baby-who-had-drugs-in-body.html?pg=all
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