NSW Dad’s Antidepressant Warning After Eight-year-old Son Tries to Take His Life Emily McPherson, 9 News, 23 Jan 2018 A NSW father says he wants to warn parents about the dangers of antidepressants after his eight-year-old son tried to take his own life twice while on...
Antipsychotic Drugs, Restraints and Seclusion: Mental Health Treatments Raising Concerns by Katherine Gregory, ABC News, 27 Dec 2017 Melbourne woman Jessica* is still struggling to come to terms with the debilitating impact of being on antipsychotic medications for...
Are Psychiatric Drugs, Documented to Cause Violence Behind the Flinders Street Car Ramming? As the details of the horrific Flinders Street ramming attack have unfolded, it seems that “random” acts of violence are on the rise. But as some information has revealed,...
Sexual Abuse in Victoria’s Mental Health Wards Is Bad and Getting Worse Farrah TomazinThe Age, 11 December 2017 It was meant to be a place that kept her safe; a mental health hospital whose purpose was to treat the most fragile. Julie Preston was exactly that: a...
Antidepressant Use Doubles Nationwide Sky News, 19 November 2017 The number of Australians on antidepressants has doubled in the past 17 years with only Iceland having a higher usage of the drugs. More than 2.7 million Australians are on antidepressants, and with...
Rhonda gets justice for state’s “worst case of child abuse” Tobi Loftus, South Burnet Times 29 Oct 2017 RHONDA Trivett was sitting on her bed watching a movie on October 17 when she received a phone call she’d been waiting for since 1981. “It was (Queensland Health...
