Sara Carlin - 'Death by Paxil' or was it sleeping pills?

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Sara Carlin: A life cut way too short

David Lea
Published on Jul 19, 2008




Neil noted that Sara got to the point where she just did not care about anything anymore. Eventually, she quit her hockey team and lost her job as the assistant to a local optometrist.



Her parents said alcohol and drug abuse, which had never surfaced in their daughter before, also became a problem.



Sara had trouble sleeping, and when she did sleep, she had terrible nightmares.



Today, flipping through the 2003 and 2004 advisories issued by Health Canada on Paxil, Neil now believes that many of the problems Sara was having are listed as possible side effects of the drug she was taking.



"All the information about self harm and behavioural changes is right there, but we didn't know," he said.



The situation worsened in September 2006 when Sara returned home from Western on medical leave.



Suffering from insomnia, Sara again visited a doctor who, her parents said, prescribed her sleeping pills and increased her dose of Paxil.

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Neil pointed to a Health Canada advisory that cautions against sudden shifts in the amount of Paxil being taken.

He believes this event sent his daughter into a spiral from which she would never recover.