Daily Hip-Hop News:Update: Gerald Levert Dies From Accidental Drug Mixture
Monday. 2.12.07 12:50 pm
Monday - February 12, 2007 by Jolene "foxxylady" Petipas
Gerald Lavert
Roughly three months after his untimely demise, a coroner has ruled that R&B singer Gerald Levert's death was caused by an accidental combination of prescription narcotics and over-the-counter drugs.
As SOHH previously reported, the 40-year-old crooner, son of O'Jays singer Eddie Levert, died from a heart attack in his Cleveland home last November.
According to the Associated Press, Geauga County Coroner Kevin Chartrand revealed that the drugs in Levert's bloodstream included the narcotic pain relievers Vicodin, Percocet and Darvocet, along with anxiety medication Xanax and two over-the-counter antihistamines.
The official cause of death was acute intoxication, and the death was ruled accidental. The autopsy also revealed Levert had pneumonia
Andy Gibson, a family spokesman, said Levert was taking the pain medication because of chronic pain from a lingering shoulder problem and surgery in 2005 to repair a severed Achilles tendon. He also divulged that Levert took Xanax for anxiety attacks.
Levert's last studio album, In My Song, will be released via Atlantic Records tomorrow (February 13). A book the singer co-wrote with his father titled "I Got Your Back: Our Bond As Father and Son" will be released in June.
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http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/10880
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