Suicide Antidepressant Withdrawal 10/12/2003 New York Man Jumps from George Washington Bridge
 
 Summary:<br><br><!--StartFragment -->Paragraphs one &amp; two read: &quot;Carlos Ramirez was pushed off the George Washington Bridge by bureaucrats, his outraged family claims.&quot;<br />&nbsp;<br />&quot;<strong>Ramirez, 33, went mad weeks before his Dec. 2 death after he stopped taking the antidepressants he&#39;d been on for about 15 years.&quot;<br /><br /></strong><a href="http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/13051.htm">http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/13051.htm</a><br /><br /><br /><em>December 10, 2003</em> -- Carlos Ramirez was pushed off the George Washington Bridge by bureaucrats, his outraged family claims. <br />Ramirez, 33, went mad weeks before his Dec. 2 death after he stopped taking the antidepressants he&#39;d been on for about 15 years. <br />He told his family he couldn&#39;t afford the prescriptions because bureaucrats had suspended his Medicaid payments. <br />Yesterday, the devastated family demanded an investigation into the decision by the Westchester County Department of Social Services to suspend his Medicaid payments. Ramirez lived in New Rochelle. <br />Nancy Travers, the deputy director at the agency, quickly discounted the family&#39;s charge, saying the department cannot deny Medicaid to any disabled client receiving federal Social Security Income benefits. <br /><em>Douglas Montero</em> <br /> 
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