Lindsay Clancy tragedy exposes blind spot in modern psychiatry
Summary
In the four months leading up to the deaths of her three children, Lindsay Clancy was prescribed 13 different psychiatric medications through more than 30 prescriptions. Of those 13 medications, only four fell within Massachusetts’s prescription monitoring program, while the remaining nine, including antidepressants, an antipsychotic, and a mood stabilizer, were outside its routine reporting
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Lindsay Clancy tragedy exposes blind spot in modern psychiatry
In the four months leading up to the deaths of her three children, Lindsay Clancy was prescribed 13 different psychiatric medications through more than 30 prescriptions. Of those 13 medications, only four fell within Massachusetts’s prescription monitoring program, while the...
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