EVERY day I read emails sent to APRIL, the charity I founded after the death of my daughter Karen. Many people write of their suspicions that the abrupt onset of what had been labelled a psychiatric illness of a family member or friend was in fact caused by a reaction to prescribed medicines or anaesthetics. In some cases, like Karen’s, the result can be fatal.
The same suspects turn up time and again: corticosteroids, anti-malarial drugs, acne drugs, tranquillisers and antidepressants among others, prescribed for everything from support for giving up smoking to urinary incontinence.
There is reason to be…
