Robin Williams

12  2018-02-13 by cispanda

He was prescribed seroquel 7 days before he killed himself. A drug known to cause suicides (the last thing he looked on his tablet by his bed was drug side effects). I could speculate that might have something to do with it but we will never really know.

A bottle of Seroquel prescribed to Williams on August 4th, just seven days prior to Williams’ suicide, was missing 8 pills. The Seroquel instructions advise to take one pill per day as needed.

Side effects associated with Seroquel include psychosis, paranoid reactions, delusions, depersonalization and suicide attempt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x86aCDtvbT0&t=5s

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I think I took seroquel for a time about 9 years ago. From what I remember I did not like it.

Could there be enough in his system after 7 days (assuming he took the prescribed dosage) to have that kind of effect? I've never taken that drug but others I have took a month or so to really get into my system and make any changes to how I was feeling, good or bad.

No

It's in your system after the first dose. It has a a half life of around 6 hours.

1-6 weeks to reach full effects depending on the person.

Neuropharm major reporting in.

1- 6 weeks, notice that spread? The reason for that is because the effects vary greatly from patient to patient. If the patient already has a compromised liver or kidneys the full effects could easily hit them in a week or less.

Take an upvote from me.

Robin Williams had a history of alcohol & drug abuse. It could indeed have an effect on him earlier than the listed 4-6 weeks.

I just wanted to point out that the 1.5 hours isn't accurate for the full effects of the drugs when taken for the first time.

Sure, and to be fair I've only skimmed the replies to the article and a bit of what OP has said throughout the thread; I could do to catch up on the conversation a bit more.

That being said, I saw a subject that I can confidently comment on and did so. Your comment about his history of drug and alcohol abuse is what lead me to this line of thinking as well. That and personal experience with a few buddies in the Army, alcohol and seroquel. Nasty stuff on it's own, even worse when you combine it with alcohol (and an alcoholics damaged filtration system)

What's the conspiracy?

That the drug might have helped persuade him to kill himself by either enhancing or causing suicidal thoughts

Are acknowledged potential side effects a conspiracy?

If his wife had just left him 7 days before it would have been brought up and have been huge news in that story. But the glaring issue of the initiation of a drug known to cause suicides wasn't.

Mainstream media get's a lot of money for advertising from pharmaceutical companies so when yet another suicide/homicide happens caused by these drugs it's not mentioned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpinCRaAQOk

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117410

"The manufacturer of the nation's second-best-selling anti-depressant must pay $8 million to the relatives of a man who killed himself and three others after taking the drug Paxil, jurors said."

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/antidepressants-side-effects-psychosis-nice-terror-attack-german-wings-pilot-extremism-terrorism-a7191566.html

"Just two years after Prozac came onto the market, a 48-year-old man, Joseph Wesbecker, went into his workplace with a gun, killing eight and injuring 12 before killing himself. The drug company, Eli Lilly, paid vast amounts of money to the families of victims on condition they keep quiet. A few years later there were 170 claims against Eli Lilly from people who claimed similar instances of violence and suicide."

Then why wasn't this information the thrust of your post, when all you did was mention Robin Williams and force us to drag it out of you?

Cuz ur stupid

7 days is in no way long enough for the drug to be in your system.

the drug is in your system after the first dose..

Lol no.. it takes between 6-8 weeks for those type of drugs to take effect

No It's in your system after the first dose. It has a a half life of around 6 hours.

It's literally the first search result when you type in the question on google. I was wrong by 1 week.

"Quetiapine fumarate is rapidly absorbed after oral administration, reaching peak plasma concentrations in 1.5 hours."

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2004/20639se1-017,016_seroquel_lbl.pdf

"Quetiapine fumarate is rapidly absorbed after oral administration, reaching peak plasma concentrations in 1.5 hours."

You can't argue with stupid. You're right I'm wrong. But anyone else reading this have a look

"7 days is in no way long enough for the drug to be in your system."

Quetiapine fumarate is rapidly absorbed after oral administration, reaching peak plasma concentrations in 1.5 hours.

mean terminal half-life of about 6 hours

Repeating yourself doesn't make it any more true. You don't understand what you're reading

you're an idiot.

I must be to keep arguing with you. You're embarrassing yourself because you don't understand what you're reading

That says 4-6 weeks but could be in full effect for some in just 1 week. Depends on the person it seems.

Correct. I don't support this theory because Williams was a known manic depressive who was supposedly diagnosed with Parkinsons (?) shortly before his suicide.

But, Seroquel isn't like an SSRI, you can feel it immediately. Or at least I could.

No It's in your system after the first dose. It has a a half life of around 6 hours.

You clearly have never taken anti-depressants before

You seem to be confusing something here. The drugs are in your system immediately, but your body tends to take several days to weeks to adjust its own chemical balances in such a way that the interaction produces the desired effects.

I have plenty of experience with opioids and anti-depressant drugs, and it's virtually always the same deal. You have medium to severe side-effects after about half a day, lasting for about a week or so when your body begins to adjust and compensate for some of the side effects.

So in my experience, it's very likely that Robin had a hell of a shitty week due to side effects and he, unfortunately, broke before his body and mind could adjust to the medication.

I have chronic insomnia and Seroquel really helps me to sleep. I take a pretty smal dose and haven't suffered in the way of side effects.

Ever try cannabis?

Yeah me and weed just don't on. I suffer with anxiety and it makes it ten times worse... Funny coz I love shrooms.

Haha yeah I get that. With all the new products being made, I would suggest trying CBD oil. They remove the THC part so it's all pain relief with none of the anxiety. But to each, their own.

Thanks ! I'll look into it!!

antipsychotics are some of the most harmful and damaging drugs in medicine. I really hope you were informed by the prescriber about this and you should research.

Yeah but I sleep soundly every night.

These drugs (antipsychotics) are tranquillisers and take decades off peoples lives with the side effects. You are not different from the majority of humans. These class of drugs are horrendous on the human organism.

No doctor should be prescribing them for insomnia.

I have never seen seroquel activate a bipolar. Now throw a ssri or amphetamine on a bipolar whose mood is uncapped with a mood stabilizer, that is disaster after the first dose. Atypical antipsychotics need weeks to build up in the fat cells until it finally saturates the brain (which is mostly fat) to see the eps and pseudoparkins.

That's so sad