From The Guardian: A coroner has issued a warning in regards to the results of antidepressants prescribed by a Buckingham Palace physician to the son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent earlier than his suicide.
Thomas Kingston, 45, whose marriage to Girl Gabriella at Windsor Fort in 2019 was attended by the late Queen, killed himself final February after “struggling opposed results of remedy he had lately been prescribed”, an inquest discovered final month.
Giving proof to the inquest, Dr David Healy, a psychiatric medical skilled, mentioned zopiclone may additionally trigger nervousness whereas sertraline and citalopram had been each SSRIs, and primarily the identical.
Healy mentioned Kingston’s complaints that sertraline was persevering with to make him anxious was an indication SSRIs “didn’t swimsuit him” and he mustn’t have been prescribed the identical factor once more.
He mentioned the rules and labels for SSRIs weren’t clear sufficient in regards to the dangers of happening the medication within the first place or what the impact could possibly be when shifting from one to a different.
“We want a way more express assertion saying that these medication may cause individuals to commit suicide who wouldn’t have in any other case,” he mentioned.
