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*It's now looking like the death of singer Sean Levert could have been avoided.
*It's now looking like the death of singer Sean Levert could have been avoided.
A Cuyahoga county coroner's report concluded that Levert's withdrawal symptoms from the drug Xanax contributed to the complications that stopped his heart on March 30, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Levert was waiting for a doctor's evaluation to decide if he should be allowed the medicine. The visit was scheduled for April 8.
On the other hand, officials at nearby Franklin and Hamilton county jails said their facilities have policies that would not have the R&B singer his doctor-prescribed anxiety medication, as the staff at the Cuyahoga County Jail did during Levert's last six days of life.
"If he had been in our jail and Xanax was on the formulary - if it was a standard-issue drug - he would have seen a doctor who would prescribe it," said Mark Barrett, chief deputy for jail administration in the Franklin County Sheriff's Office.
Hamilton County sheriff's spokesman Steve Barnett said the same holds true in that Cincinnati-area jail.
Both said evaluations are made at book-in.
"If their doctor prescribes it and confirms it to our people, that's what they get," Barnett said.
The paper said that Cuyahoga County Sheriff Gerald McFaul did not return phone calls on Tuesday and Wednesday to comment on the jail's medication policies.
Meanwile, on Wednesday, Levert's family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county.
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