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A 54-year-old city businessman on Sunday night allegedly committed suicide by jumping from his own five-storey building in North Chennai after a painkiller injection he was regularly using became unavailable in pharmacies.
Police said the deceased, Kishore Kumar R Sanghvi, engaged in wholesale trade of raincoats and residing at Karuppanan Street in George Town, was highly depressed as the painkiller, which he was using for 15 years, was unavailable for the last one week. “Family members say he had been repeatedly displaying suicidal tendencies since the drug became unavailable. Unable to bear the pain, he opted to kill himself. On Sunday night, he went to his building at Nattu Pillaiyar Koil Street and jumped from the terrace,” said inspector S Gunasekaran.
Sanghvi had suffered an injury in the spinal cord 25 years ago when he visited the Kutralam waterfalls along with his family. He had accidentally fallen on rocks while taking bath in the falls and was not able to recover from the pain for a long time. After some years, he started consuming a brand of Pentazocine, a controlled narcotic used as a painkiller. It seemed he became addicted to it and started consuming it almost everyday, the police said.
Read More at: http://newindianexpress.com/cities/...-get-painkiller/2013/10/22/article1848524.ece
Police said the deceased, Kishore Kumar R Sanghvi, engaged in wholesale trade of raincoats and residing at Karuppanan Street in George Town, was highly depressed as the painkiller, which he was using for 15 years, was unavailable for the last one week. “Family members say he had been repeatedly displaying suicidal tendencies since the drug became unavailable. Unable to bear the pain, he opted to kill himself. On Sunday night, he went to his building at Nattu Pillaiyar Koil Street and jumped from the terrace,” said inspector S Gunasekaran.
Sanghvi had suffered an injury in the spinal cord 25 years ago when he visited the Kutralam waterfalls along with his family. He had accidentally fallen on rocks while taking bath in the falls and was not able to recover from the pain for a long time. After some years, he started consuming a brand of Pentazocine, a controlled narcotic used as a painkiller. It seemed he became addicted to it and started consuming it almost everyday, the police said.
Read More at: http://newindianexpress.com/cities/...-get-painkiller/2013/10/22/article1848524.ece