Inadequate communication of SSRI suicide risk
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 9 Dec 2020 and 7 Jan 2025.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
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Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“However, it has been suggested that the "Black Box Warning" (as developed by the Food and Drug Administration in the USA) would have a more 1 immediate impact and capture some patient's attention highlighting any risks.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“We have taken note of your suggestion that the”
Web search (Tavily): No evidence found either way
Black Box Warnings - Fast-Tracked Drugs & Increased Use ↗- 4 years 1 month laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner
“Whether there is adequate communication of the risks of suicide associated with the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medications, and”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2020 → 2025Thomas Kingston4 years 1 month after Samuel Morgan · different coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.85 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight insufficient communication about suicide risk linked to SSRIs.
Samuel Morgan · 9 Dec 2020
“However, it has been suggested that the "Black Box Warning" (as developed by the Food and Drug Administration in the USA) would have a more 1 immediate impact and capture some patient's attention highlighting any risks.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Thomas Kingston · 7 Jan 2025
“Whether there is adequate communication of the risks of suicide associated with the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medications, and”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“We have taken note of your suggestion that the”
Stated action
“We have taken note of your suggestion that the”
What happened next: No evidence found either way
The organisation did not take any action regarding the suggested measure.
“A black box warning is the FDA's most stringent warning for drugs and medical devices on the market. Black box warnings, or boxed warnings, alert the public and health care providers to serious side effects, such as injury or death. The FDA requires drug companies to add a warning label to medications that have a black box warning.”
No evidence found does not mean the action did not happen.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 → 2025 | 0.68 | 0.00 | Identical · 0.85 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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