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En Banc Sixth Circuit Addresses Mental Health Care
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2000, page 18
Filed under:
Medication,
Qualified Immunity,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides.
Location:
Michigan.
By Matthew T. Clarke
Anthony Wade was a Michigan state prisoner who committed suicide by taking an overdose of anti-depressant Sinequan (Doxepine) pills. During the year Wade was in presentencing incarceration at the Wayne County Jail (WCJ), he suffered from depression and was prescribed Thorazine. Prior to his transfer to ...
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