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Psychiatrist says Lindsay Clancy felt guilt over alcohol use
Dr Jennifer Tufts testified in Massachusetts court on Friday about her psychiatric care for Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children in January 2023. Tufts said Clancy reported…
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Dr Jennifer Tufts testified in Massachusetts court on Friday about her psychiatric care for Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children in January 2023. Tufts said Clancy reported on an intake form that she drank one to two drinks five days a week and felt guilty about it. Clancy also listed anxiety attacks, insomnia and racing thoughts but did not mention suicidal ideation, homicidal thoughts or auditory hallucinations.
Tufts told the jury that Clancy was hesitant to take psychiatric medication because of side effects. She prescribed Zoloft in September 2022, which Clancy later stopped. Clancy had received 30 prescriptions for 13 different drugs from five physicians in the months before the killings. Her attorney claims she heard a voice telling her to strangle her children. A verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity would commit her to a state mental hospital; a murder conviction carries life without parole.
The Indian Opinion
The coverage of Lindsay Clancy's trial risks turning a ghastly act into a made-for-TV drama about medication. The defence wants jurors to see a woman driven mad by pills; the prosecution will point to her concealment of suicidal thoughts. No one is asking the harder question: was the system that prescribed 30 scripts from five doctors treating a patient or creating a cocktail? The trial's quiet test will be whether any witness quantifies the actual dosage of each drug, not just the number of bottles.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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