Kim Witczak, a Global drug safety advocate and advisor to MISSD, intuitively knew Zoloft precipitated her husband’s out-of-character death. That the coroner who investigated Woody’s death asked about medications he took was helpful–and rare. Today, decades later, most coroners don’t ask questions about medications and formal reports don’t often include a list of all medications taken or recently discontinued. This needs to change so that medication-induced suicides are correctly recorded and data can be compiled to increase akathisia understanding and prevention.

Listen to the Kim’s podcast interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fSYT2OtNpo.