Mick Hucknall's cousin Harry was 'a victim of prescribed drugs'

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Mick Hucknall's cousin Harry was 'a victim of prescribed drugs'

A coroner today questioned the wisdom of

‘mind-altering’ drugs to treat young children after the depressed

ten-year-old cousin of singer Mick

Hucknall hanged himself.

Ian

hit out at the pressures placed on youngsters by

today’s society after being told of the death of Harry Hucknall,

who was given fluoxetine and Ritalin for attention-deficit

hyperactivity disorder.

He said: ‘I do believe it reflects upon society how we expect

children to behave. We expect them to be little adults.

‘We as a society quite rightly try to stop children dabbling in

street drugs. And yet a child with this label of ADHD is

prescribed, under supervision, mind-altering drugs of a very

powerful nature.’

Harry, a twice-removed cousin of the Simply Red singer, was

described as a ‘troubled boy’.

He was unsettled by moving home 14 times and bullied at school

– on one occasion he was held down and threatened with a

screwdriver.

In September, he was found dead in his locked bedroom in the

home he shared with his mother in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria.

The levels of both drugs found in his system were above the

normal therapeutic level for adults.

West Cumbria coroner Mr said, although Harry talked of

suicide, he did not intend to end his own life. Instead, he told

the inquest in Barrow, he ‘died as a consequence of his own

actions without understanding their true consequences’.

Harry’s father, Darren, who is separated from his mother, said

the drugs were ‘a major contribution to what happened’. ‘He

never mentioned he wanted to kill himself before the tablets,’

he claimed.

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Mick Hucknall's cousin Harry was 'a victim of prescribed drugs'

A coroner today questioned the wisdom of

‘mind-altering’ drugs to treat young children after the depressed

ten-year-old cousin of singer Mick

Hucknall hanged himself.

Ian

hit out at the pressures placed on youngsters by

today’s society after being told of the death of Harry Hucknall,

who was given fluoxetine and Ritalin for attention-deficit

hyperactivity disorder.

He said: ‘I do believe it reflects upon society how we expect

children to behave. We expect them to be little adults.

‘We as a society quite rightly try to stop children dabbling in

street drugs. And yet a child with this label of ADHD is

prescribed, under supervision, mind-altering drugs of a very

powerful nature.’

Harry, a twice-removed cousin of the Simply Red singer, was

described as a ‘troubled boy’.

He was unsettled by moving home 14 times and bullied at school

– on one occasion he was held down and threatened with a

screwdriver.

In September, he was found dead in his locked bedroom in the

home he shared with his mother in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria.

The levels of both drugs found in his system were above the

normal therapeutic level for adults.

West Cumbria coroner Mr said, although Harry talked of

suicide, he did not intend to end his own life. Instead, he told

the inquest in Barrow, he ‘died as a consequence of his own

actions without understanding their true consequences’.

Harry’s father, Darren, who is separated from his mother, said

the drugs were ‘a major contribution to what happened’. ‘He

never mentioned he wanted to kill himself before the tablets,’

he claimed.

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Mick Hucknall's cousin Harry was 'a victim of prescribed drugs'

A coroner today questioned the wisdom of

‘mind-altering’ drugs to treat young children after the depressed

ten-year-old cousin of singer Mick

Hucknall hanged himself.

Ian

hit out at the pressures placed on youngsters by

today’s society after being told of the death of Harry Hucknall,

who was given fluoxetine and Ritalin for attention-deficit

hyperactivity disorder.

He said: ‘I do believe it reflects upon society how we expect

children to behave. We expect them to be little adults.

‘We as a society quite rightly try to stop children dabbling in

street drugs. And yet a child with this label of ADHD is

prescribed, under supervision, mind-altering drugs of a very

powerful nature.’

Harry, a twice-removed cousin of the Simply Red singer, was

described as a ‘troubled boy’.

He was unsettled by moving home 14 times and bullied at school

– on one occasion he was held down and threatened with a

screwdriver.

In September, he was found dead in his locked bedroom in the

home he shared with his mother in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria.

The levels of both drugs found in his system were above the

normal therapeutic level for adults.

West Cumbria coroner Mr said, although Harry talked of

suicide, he did not intend to end his own life. Instead, he told

the inquest in Barrow, he ‘died as a consequence of his own

actions without understanding their true consequences’.

Harry’s father, Darren, who is separated from his mother, said

the drugs were ‘a major contribution to what happened’. ‘He

never mentioned he wanted to kill himself before the tablets,’

he claimed.

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http://www.metro.co.uk/news/859706-mick-hucknalls-cousin-harry-was-a-victim-of-prescribed-drugs

Mick Hucknall's cousin Harry was 'a victim of prescribed drugs'

A coroner today questioned the wisdom of

‘mind-altering’ drugs to treat young children after the depressed

ten-year-old cousin of singer Mick

Hucknall hanged himself.

Ian

hit out at the pressures placed on youngsters by

today’s society after being told of the death of Harry Hucknall,

who was given fluoxetine and Ritalin for attention-deficit

hyperactivity disorder.

He said: ‘I do believe it reflects upon society how we expect

children to behave. We expect them to be little adults.

‘We as a society quite rightly try to stop children dabbling in

street drugs. And yet a child with this label of ADHD is

prescribed, under supervision, mind-altering drugs of a very

powerful nature.’

Harry, a twice-removed cousin of the Simply Red singer, was

described as a ‘troubled boy’.

He was unsettled by moving home 14 times and bullied at school

– on one occasion he was held down and threatened with a

screwdriver.

In September, he was found dead in his locked bedroom in the

home he shared with his mother in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria.

The levels of both drugs found in his system were above the

normal therapeutic level for adults.

West Cumbria coroner Mr said, although Harry talked of

suicide, he did not intend to end his own life. Instead, he told

the inquest in Barrow, he ‘died as a consequence of his own

actions without understanding their true consequences’.

Harry’s father, Darren, who is separated from his mother, said

the drugs were ‘a major contribution to what happened’. ‘He

never mentioned he wanted to kill himself before the tablets,’

he claimed.