Coroner questions advice on risk of suicide with SSRIs after death of financier

A coroner has questioned whether enough information is provided about the risk of suicide associated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) after the son in law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent shot himself after taking the antidepressant drugs. Thomas Kingston, 45, died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head last February while visiting his parents in Kemble, Gloucestershire. Katy Skerrett, senior coroner for Gloucestershire, has sent a regulation 28 report, intended to prevent future deaths, to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory …

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