Psychiatric drugs — an untold human tragedy

RECENTLY you reported on the potential fatal effects of anti-depressants and, in the case of older people in nursing homes, psychiatric drugs that can cause heart attacks, strokes and death.

I wish to add that in Ireland no research has been carried out to establish how many of those people who ended their own lives were being prescribed psychiatric drugs.

The suffering and death that can result from these neuroleptic drugs is one of the greatest untold human tragedies of our time.