Went off his psych meds and started taking vitamins.
Schizophrenic stopped taking drugs; found not responsible for offences Dropped medication for
vitamin treatment
Jake Rupert The Ottawa Citizen
Saturday, October 25, 2003
A man suffering from chronic schizophrenia who stopped taking his medication in favour of a
controversial vitamin supplement from a company under investigation by the RCMP, was yesterday found
not criminally responsible for actions he committed while off the medication.
Caro Overdulve, 32, who was diagnosed with the disease in 1993, had not come in contact with the law
until he stopped taking his prescribed anti-psychotic medication and started taking Empowerplus in
2001. The vitamin supplement is sold by Alberta-based Truehope Inc., whose offices were raided this
summer by the RCMP and Health Canada. [...]