“Drug induced death is the leading cause of death within the mental health field.”

via Leonie Fennel's Blog:

The medical experts meet in Leinster House.

The title quote is from Dr. David Healy, above second from the right.

Today we met with Kathleen Lynch, the minister with responsibility for mental health. After the initial niceties, the first point she made was that she saw the article in the Examiner and she was hoping that the meeting today would be kept private and out of the public domain. This she said, was due to the other families who were also involved and she hoped that we could keep this an “in house and very much a private meeting.”

Sorry, I will not be playing the political game.

I disagree with Minister Lynch and I am of the opinion that keeping these issues a secret is exactly where the problem began. Did the Minister think that she had to remind us that there were other people involved? No poo sherlock!!

I personally know of a previous meeting in the Dail where the suicidal/aggression side-effects of SSRI’s were brought to the attention of a Government Minister. Maybe if something was done about the situation at that time, there wouldn’t be other people involved and Shane would be off traveling the world. But nothing was done, so we will never know, will we?

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Thank you Leonie for Speaking Truth to Power