Posted on 11/11/2008 1:31:09 PM PST by RogerFGay
CLEVELAND -- R&B singer Sean Levert entered the Cuyahoga County Jail on March 24 clutching the prescribed medication he took regularly for anxiety.
Jail staff took the bottle of Xanax away from him and failed to give him a single pill during the six days he was there, investigators said. Even when he began suffering horrifying delusions, he wasn't given his medication and never saw a doctor.
Instead, on March 30, jailers strapped Levert into a restraint chair, still fighting the monstrous visions in his head caused by withdrawal from the medication. Minutes later, the 39-year-old son of O'Jays star Eddie Levert stopped breathing. His heart then stopped and doctors couldn't save him.
Recently released Cuyahoga County investigators' reports, interviews and the Cuyahoga County coroner's report together reveal the details of Sean E. Levert Sr.'s final days in the overcrowded jail, run by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office.
Levert was sentenced March 24 to 22 months in prison for owing $90,988.96 to three children he fathered before marrying 13 years ago. Deputies brought him from a Cuyahoga County courtroom to the jail in the same building. During the booking process, Levert surrendered a bottle of Xanax that contained 37 pills. He began taking the 2-milligram pills three times a day in November 2007. The prescription for 90 pills was refilled on March 12.
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You are a nice guy who feels people should not be strapped in a chair and left to die because they did not pay a court fine.
It’s spooky, the fascist tendencies he’s shown
Kicking reporters off the plane because their newspapers endorsed McCain, telling Fox News not to criticize him, sending cops to threaten people holding signs at rallies, allowing state officials to open confidential files on Joe because he dared to question Dear Leader.
I kind of wonder if he will kick Fox News out of the press room because they are an enemy of the state?
Ed
You sir are in a minority. So called family values placed into law are the bane of any libertarin leaning conservative, as you are based on what you just said. And I keep hitting commas instead of periods,,, see.
Dreadful.
It is a short term drug, but if I had a nickle for every housewife I have seen who has been on a year or two, those darn PCP’s, I could retire and freep full time.
“Prisons and jails are horrible places for people on medications.”
That was my major disagreement with Sheriff Joe Arpaio. I had clients that needed meds and we always had to fight to get proper treatment.
My goodness
Why would anyone take something like that!!
How did people survive before the wonders of modern medicine?
I agree, I am all for law and order, but prescribed medicines should be administered.
well for 1 thing..i have never heard of xanax for heart probs..i could be wrong..i have been taking xanax for 10yrs now..for panic attacks and panic disorder...i take it twice a day..there were times i ran out of them...it was living hell bad bad withdraws..called doc..he said i cant see you today..and take like 2 hours for him to get scrip ready..so he told me to get my ass to ER right away...yes you can die from withdraws from xanax..you can go in to a seizer and dieeeeeeee
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