Editing Death of Brandon Vedas (section)

== Overview ==

The video chat session began when Vedas logged into the IRC channel and announced "i got a grip of drugs", inviting other users to access his webcam feed and watch him take them.<ref name="nyd"/> While some of the substances were illicit, most of them had apparently been obtained through legitimate [[prescription drug|prescriptions]] for treatment of various illnesses from which Vedas was said to have suffered.<ref name="nyd"/>

Vedas then began consuming [[psilocybe cubensis|psilocybe mushrooms]], which had been stored in a prescription medication bottle. As the chat session progressed, one of the users in the channel, grphish, noted "that's a lot of klonopin"<ref name="nyd"/> and this is thought to be when Vedas consumed 8 [[milligram|mg]] of [[clonazepam]].{{citation needed|date=September 2022}} Vedas continued by showing the webcam viewers what would be one of four bottles of [[methadone]] that he would consume over the course of the session, and, after noting this on the channel, proceeded to consume an entire bottle (reportedly 80&nbsp;mg of methadone<ref name="nyd"/>). After a brief respite, Vedas then consumed 110&nbsp;mg of [[propranolol]] (Inderal), two [[Vicodin]] tablets, and 120&nbsp;mg [[temazepam]], which seem to have been taken in between descriptions given on the IRC channel.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

During this process, Vedas maintained that this was "usual weekend behavior" for him and that he had consumed similar quantities of the same substances on previous occasions.<ref name="nyd"/> "I told u I was hardcore" was one of the last things Vedas typed,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://egomania.nu/princessnatalie.com/4.html|title=Brandon Vedas aka Ripper Chat room Log |website=egomania.nu|access-date=2013-01-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127132021/http://egomania.nu/princessnatalie.com/4.html|archive-date=2013-01-27|url-status=dead}}</ref> and he was found dead by his mother the next day.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bering |first1=Jesse |title=Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves |date=23 October 2020 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-75555-7 |page=160 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c5IlEAAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>