Seroxat - Should parents have been told daughter was prescribed anti-depressant?

Should parents have been told daughter was prescribed anti-depressant?.

If a patient’s life is at risk should their doctor warn that patient’s family, even without the patient’s consent?

Rhonda Carlin says if her family doctor and others had done this, her daughter might still be alive.

Rhonda testified to this effect, on Friday, during the fifth day of a coroner’s inquest into the death of Sara Carlin.
Sara, 18, an Oakville resident and graduate of St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Secondary School, hanged herself in her parents’ basement on Sunday, May 6, 2007.
At the time, she had been taking Paxil, an anti-depressant, which Health Canada has issued advisories for due to the possible increased risk of suicidal events for children and adolescents who take it.

From the outset of the inquest, Gary Will, the Carlins' lawyer has been attempting to link Paxil to Sara's downward spiral and death, while the Coroner's Counsel, lawyers representing Paxil manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline and lawyers representing three doctors associated with treating Sara, have brought forward other theories about her suicide.

These include theories that she was driven to suicide through drug and alcohol consumption or because of the sadness she felt over the death of her brother Brendan, who died of a drug overdose on New Year's Eve 1999.

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