Promoting awareness of the dangers of antidepressants
“There was no history of violence and no other warning markers” Last week, the two-day inquest of 60-year-old Geraint Hughes (left) was held in Truro, Cornwall, almost six years after his death. On November 15th 2013, Geraint, a local GP, Continue reading Warning Markers
“If a patient taking an antidepressant complains of worsening depression and suicidal thoughts, a prescriber is likely to increase the patient’s dose to continue treating depression, which only exacerbates the akathisia.” The article that follows was written by Continue reading “When Side Effects Turn Deadly”
On November 20th last year, 58-year-old Brian Long (top) was found by his wife Julie in the bathroom of their home in Gillingham. He had hanged himself. This week’s inquest in Maidstone heard that, earlier in the month, Brian Continue reading The GP, the Coroner & the Ombudsman
During the evening of December 9th last year, 17-year-old Quinn Beadle (top) walked out of her family’s home in Shildon, County Durham, and hanged herself on a tree at the end of the street. Her father came across the Continue reading Quinn’s Garden