More than 100 alerts over deaths linked to antidepressants taken by Thomas Kingston
More than 100 alerts were made in a decade to the UK’s medicines regulator over deaths linked to the antidepressants which Thomas Kingston was taking before he killed himself.
A coroner ruled that Mr Kingston, the husband of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent’s daughter Lady Gabriella Kingston, fatally shot himself after an adverse effect to the medications he had been prescribed, which included the common antidepressant citalopram.
The UK’s medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said it is undertaking a review of safety warnings for 30 antidepressants including citalopram and prozac.
Data analysis by The Independent has now found the MHRA has received more than 71 alerts over fatalities linked to the antidepressant citalopram since 2014.
The data, called yellow card alerts, also shows 114 alerts over fatal adverse reactions linked to sertraline, another antidepressant taken by Mr Kingston, over the same period.
However, the data does not determine whether the drug was the direct cause of death.
Source: The Independent, 8 December 2024