Saturday, November 8, 2014

Slow Saturday Special: Prescription Pharmaceuticals Killed Robin Williams

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"Robin Williams’ autopsy found no illegal drugs" Associated Press   November 08, 2014

SAN FRANCISCO — An autopsy found no alcohol or illegal drugs were in Robin Williams’s body when he killed himself at his Northern California home in August, sheriff’s officials said Friday.

The results released by the Marin County sheriff’s office found that the actor had taken prescription medications, but in ‘‘therapeutic concentrations.’’

The coroner ruled Williams’s death a suicide that resulted from asphyxia due to hanging. Sheriff’s officials have said Williams was found in the bedroom of his home in Tiburon on the morning of Aug. 11.

Williams’s wife, Susan Schneider, has said the actor and comedian had been struggling with depression, anxiety, and a recent Parkinson’s diagnosis.

Williams had entered a substance abuse rehabilitation program shortly before his death, and Schneider has said he was sober at the time of his suicide.

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