‘Medication made mother an addict’- family of woman who died by suicide

The family of a Dublin woman who died by suicide claimed she had effectively become a drug addict from medication she had been prescribed. The husband of Deirdre Kane, 52, a mother of four from Baldoyle, told Dublin Coroner’s Court yesterday she had become “extremely reliant” on drugs for up to six years before her death.

Terry Kane told an inquest into his wife’s death that she had suffered from depression and severe pain since the birth of their youngest child in 2004.