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A 52-year-old woman with a depressive disorder developed various toxicities leading to death following an overdose of venlafaxine [Symfaxin ER] in a suicide attempt.
The woman was hospitalised with generalised seizures and transferred to a toxicology ward after it was revealed that she had ingested 56 pills of venlafaxine 150mg (estimated total dose of 8.4g; approximately 1.5 box) approximately 24 hours earlier [time to reaction onset not...