Promoting awareness of the dangers of antidepressants
Last week, the jury at the inquest of Logan Peters (top) found that “unreasonable, disproportionate and unnecessary” force by police officers contributed to the deterioration in the mental state of the 22-year-old boat-builder who was later found dead. During Continue reading Police Custody: the Last Resort
Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK, and the theme this year was “Relationships”. Gemma Mitchell (right), a journalist from the Ipswich Star with a special interest in mental health, marked this by reporting Continue reading Out of the Hole: Khanada’s story
Adverse drug reactions and interactions are among the major causes of death. Antidepressants have been reported as causing suicide and homicide and frequently produce akathisia, a state of severe restlessness associated with thoughts of death and violence. In today’s Continue reading Metabolism, Antidepressants and Violence
On December 6th last year, “loving, caring and popular” Reece Burrowes was found hanged in Danson Park (right), Bexleyheath, in South-East London. 17-year-old Reece attended Wilmington Grammar School for Boys, where the head teacher had previously described him as: “a quiet, Continue reading Reece, aged 17
Yesterday I felt privileged to have been invited to a discussion in Parliament promoted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence, in partnership with the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry. The objective of the meeting was to discuss Continue reading Mental Health Disability: the Antidepressant Connection
On April 15th 1989, 96 spectators died at a football match at Hillsborough, in Sheffield. Last week, an inquest jury decided that, predominantly due to the actions of South Yorkshire Police, every single one of the men, women and children Continue reading Hillsborough’s 97th Victim