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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I knew a 40 y/o really healthy guy, young kids, who died in his sleep. autopsy came back as a drug interaction between ssri and alcohol. Rare, on the back of the box label though so you’re supposed to know the risks. Super tragic. [/quote]

A close friend, the head of a major ER, told me that they do not interact. And she sees people with all kinds of cross-interactions and ODs all the time. MAOIs and alcohol interact. Benzos and alcohol interact.

Unless your friend took a deliberate OD of the SSRI and alcohol, or had an underlying issue, that was not the primary cause of death. You can OD on either substance, but the interaction alone - when each substance is ingested in normal amounts - won't do it.
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And now we get medical advice from a poster whose "close friend" is "the head of a major ER." Even though this person is the "head of a major ER" they apparently told OP that alcohol and SSRIs "do not interact"? Really?

Because this is from the Zoloft label (which is the first and only SSRI label I bothered to check): [b]Do not [/b]drink alcohol while you take Zoloft. (Emphasis in the original.)[/quote]

I would trust an emergency room physician over the Internet.[/quote]

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