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Anti-psychotic drug use furore

Title: Anti-psychotic drug use furore
Date: Saturday, 9 August 2008
Publisher: The Australian
Author: Elizabeth Wynhausen
Main source: theaustralian.com.au

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IN the months before a psychotic 25-year-old woman stabbed her father and sister to death and seriously wounded her mother, her psychiatrist, Yolande Lucire, had prescribed 25ml of Largactil a day – a dose so small it used to be recommended as a treatment for hiccups. Last week in the NSW Supreme Court, judge Michael Grove found Pamela Willings (not her real name) not guilty by reason of mental illness. But the treatment she received has created a furore in psychiatric ... [Read the rest at theaustralian.com.au]