Grieving the death of a child: Clinicians should ensure that lethal drugs are handed back

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Peter Byrne, liaison psychiatrist (p.byrne@ucl.ac.uk)

Oldchurch Hospital, Romford RM7 0BE

EDITOR—Davies's case reports of completed suicide in recently bereaved parents are a timely reminder of one of the few areas in suicide prevention (access to lethality) where clinicians can intervene to save lives.1

Within the anger of acute grief—case 1 describes “holding on” to the decreased person beyond the usual grief experience1—the child's drugs can …