Method of Anne Burrell

[BradGuy123]

The cause of death of USA Food Network star Anne Burrell was suicide. Specifically "acute intoxication due to the combined effects of diphenhydramine, ethanol, cetirizine, and amphetamine.' I thought it was hard to CTB using over the counter and prescription drugs. Diphenhydramine and cetirizine are antihistamines and readily available over the counter. Ethanol is found is drinking alcohol.

1. Amphetamine is prescribed to treat ADHD. Assuming she didn't have ADHD, how could she have gotten this drug?
2. How much of each drug would she have had to take to CTB? This was a deliberate act.

I'm only asking out of curiosity and for research purposes.

 

[KillingPain267]

That's the problem: how much of the drugs. The answer is that it depends and varies. This is why common drug and medicine overdoses are notoriously unreliable as ctb methods.

 

[TitianCashew26]

The cause of death of USA Food Network star Anne Burrell was suicide. Specifically "acute intoxication due to the combined effects of diphenhydramine, ethanol, cetirizine, and amphetamine.' I thought it was hard to CTB using over the counter and prescription drugs. Diphenhydramine and cetirizine are antihistamines and readily available over the counter. Ethanol is found is drinking alcohol.

1. Amphetamine is prescribed to treat ADHD. Assuming she didn't have ADHD, how could she have gotten this drug?
2. How much of each drug would she have had to take to CTB? This was a deliberate act.

I'm only asking out of curiosity and for research purposes.

1) Black market; it's not too hard to find that way, I'd guess, for someone of her stature.

2) The table early in https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/why-ods-fail-miserably-a-guide.181394/ suggests an extraordinary number—something in the thousands. Although, as the previous post acknowledged, it's variable.

 

[nobodycaresaboutme]

1. If she didn't have ADHD or other medical issues that requires amphetamine, it's possible she bought it on the street. But I don't know.
2. It's hard to understand the "combined effect" and exactly what killed her though. those have studies about toxicity as a pure substance.
- diphenhydramine: rat LD50 500 mg/kg, Human Ldmin 10.1 mg/kg
- https://cdn.pfizer.com/pfizercom/products/material_safety_data/PD016.pdf
- ethanol: LD50 7060mg/kg
- https://www.aatbio.com/resources/toxicity-lethality-median-dose-td50-ld50/ethanol
- cetirizine: Rat LD50 703~865mg/kg (edited from 365mg/kg)
- https://cdn.pfizer.com/pfizercom/products/material_safety_data/PZ00146.pdf
- amphetamine: LD50 15~180 mg/kg
- https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Amphetamine#Lethal_dosage

I think she took extremely large amount of these substances or had a great "luck".

It is always sad to hear someone's death. I hope she found peace.