CCHR relaunches Prescription for Violence documentary and cites Tennessee’s new toxicology law amid growing evidence that psychiatric drugs can trigger homicide and suicide—supported by 145 documented cases.
By Jan Eastgate
President CCHR International
August 24, 2026
In light of current acts of senseless violence linked to psychiatric drugs, Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) has relaunched its documentary, Prescription for Violence, and directs legislators to the recent Tennessee law which mandates toxicology screening for these drugs in acts of mass violence. Supporting its documentary and the new law is a CCHR White Paper report on psychiatric drugs triggering 145 cases of such violence—where the perpetrator was either taking or withdrawing from prescription psychotropic drugs.
On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother, took her young children—Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, eight months—into the basement of her home, where she strangled each of them with exercise bands. Cora and Dawson died that night; Callan survived initially but died three days later. Lindsay then slashed her wrists and jumped from a second-story window, sustaining serious injuries that left her paralyzed from the waist down. Lindsay Clancy’s live-streamed trial, which started in July 2026, generated intense public interest, with journalists and spectators packing the courtroom as online audiences pored over the details of the unthinkable tragedy.[1] The trial turned a focus on seven prescribers of a cocktail of 13 psychiatric drugs given to Lindsay, and their potential violence- and suicide-inducing effects leading up to her killing her children. The evidence and the testimony of the psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses who treated Lindsay have brought global attention to the negligent standard of care that is psychiatry.
Author and well-known podcast host Matt Walsh commented that if Lindsay’s doctors were criminally negligent, then they, too, should be thrown in prison.[2]
This is not without precedent. Courts in multiple countries have held psychiatrists and physicians criminally responsible when their treatment failures or reckless prescribing contributed to a patient’s lethal actions or death—even when the precise circumstances differ from those in the Clancy case.
In 2012, a French psychiatrist whose patient hacked an elderly man to death was found guilty of manslaughter in a groundbreaking case. A court in Marseilles said Dr. Daniele Canarelli had committed a “grave error” by failing to recognize the public danger posed by Joel Gaillard, a patient she had treated for four years. Canarelli was handed a one-year prison sentence. Charges outlined in the court judgment said the psychiatrist’s treatment of Gaillard was marked “beyond any doubt” with “a succession of failures” and her attitude “resembled blindness.” She “did not question her methodology or change her approach, thus creating or helping to create the situation that led to the realization of the crime.”[3]
Decades earlier in the United States, a similar principle of prescriber accountability was applied. In 1981, Dr. James F. Youngkin, a Pennsylvania physician, was convicted by a jury of involuntary manslaughter over his reckless/grossly negligent prescribing of his 17-year-old patient, Barbara Fedder, who collapsed at a party and died the next day from asphyxiation. Autopsy/toxicology showed amobarbital and secobarbital (the components of Tuinal, a potent barbiturate hypnotic/sedative) had depressed her gag reflex, preventing her from clearing regurgitated material. Youngkin had prescribed numerous drugs to her in the preceding seven weeks, including seven prescriptions for Tuinal (the last written the day of the party). Evidence showed the pill strength was double the normal size, the quantities/frequencies were excessive for an outpatient (especially a teenager), and the prescribing was described by experts (including the county coroner) as “over-prescribing,” “considerably irresponsible and reckless,” and “totally wrong.” He was sentenced to 1–3 years in prison. The Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld the conviction and sentence in 1981, explicitly holding that “a defendant’s acts need not be the direct cause of death for criminal responsibility to be imposed.”[4]
Though the French case centered on a psychiatrist’s prolonged failure to recognize and contain a patient’s danger to others, and the Youngkin case involved a physician’s reckless over-prescription of a psychotropic drug that directly caused a patient’s death, both establish the same core principle: when a prescriber’s negligence or successive failures in care create or contribute to a foreseeable fatal outcome, criminal liability can follow. That principle of accountability for psychiatric and medical prescribing remains relevant to questions raised in the Clancy trial, even though the specific facts—multiple psychiatric drugs, postpartum treatment, and the resulting tragedy—differ.
We do not comment on Lindsay Clancy’s actions or legal responsibility; those determinations properly rest with the courts. What cannot be set aside, however, is the psychiatric treatment she received and the scale of polypharmacy involved—administered by multiple prescribers, often without physical examination, laboratory testing, or coordinated care. This pattern must serve as a clear lesson to regulators and law enforcement: the adverse effects of psychiatric drugs—including agitation, akathisia, suicidal and homicidal ideation, and withdrawal reactions—cannot be ignored.
“Medication stole my motherhood and my life.” – Lindsay Clancy
The toxicology report identified four prescription medications in a blood specimen collected from Lindsay on the day she allegedly murdered her three children: lamotrigine (Lamictal, mood stabilizer), mirtazapine (Remeron, antidepressant), quetiapine (Seroquel, antipsychotic), and trazodone (Desyrel, antidepressant).[5]
Roger McFillin, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, highlighted what prosecutors in the Lindsay Clancy trial may not be apprised of—or, in the quest for conviction, dispense with: that in the four months before Lindsay Clancy killed her three children, she was given 13 mind-altering drugs across more than 30 prescriptions. “She got worse on nearly every one of them, and she told them so. The profession that did this calls itself healthcare. That is not a scandal within psychiatry. That is psychiatry,” Dr. McFillin said.[6]
Prosecutors said the murders were premeditated and that Lindsay faked her suicide attempt.[7] Yet, in alleged desperation over the side effects of the drugs prescribed to her, she threw herself 20 feet from the second story of her home. She remains paralyzed below the sternum with no voluntary movement or sensation in her lower body and is confined to a wheelchair. While hospitalized, she experienced cardiac arrest requiring CPR and resuscitation.[8] Her sister, Allison Ozga, testified that at the end of December 2022, while on psychiatric “medication,” Lindsay told her she had experienced suicidal thoughts every day for a month. “Mom, will you please come up and stay with me for a bit? I’m really sick. Something is wrong,” Lindsay wrote in a text message to her mother.[9] In a note in late December, she wrote, “Medication stole my motherhood and my life.” She last modified the note on the day before she fatally strangled her three young children in January 2023. “I was the healthiest, happiest mom. I worked out every morning, meditated, and took care of myself so I could be the best for my kids. Until prescription medication stole me from my own body. It began with a touch of postpartum anxiety.”[10]
Prescribers and advocates of psychiatric drugs will not tell prosecutors how debilitating these chemicals can feel and that they are called mind-altering for good reason. Any interruption of ongoing treatment with benzodiazepines, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers can be followed by clinically significant withdrawal reactions within hours or days.[11]
Lindsay Clancy’s “Treatment”
Rebecca Jollotta, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at South Shore Health Perinatal Behavioral Health Program, testified that she tried to assure Clancy that having intrusive thoughts was common with someone diagnosed with postpartum depression and anxiety and encouraged her to give the Remeron more time to work since she had only been on it a few days. “And I wanted to familiarize her with the symptoms, so that she had them written down and she could report them to me,” Jollotta said.[12] Again, this ignores the serious feelings and thoughts that the consumer can feel taking the drugs and essentially tells them to put up with it.
Jollotta never talked to one of Lindsay’s psychiatrists, Dr. Jennifer Tufts, nor did she access Tufts’ medical records. She did not know how many times Clancy saw Tufts, noting that she only thought Tufts treated Clancy in September. Yet Dr. Tufts saw Lindsay 14 times during a four-month period ending in January. Jollotta never talked to anyone from the Rhode Island hospital that admitted Lindsay, nor did she have access to the records of McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility that Lindsay admitted herself into on New Year’s Eve. “If you’re treating a person through all of this stuff that we’ve talked about and it’s now apparent that things have decompensated so bad that they have voluntarily admitted her to a locked ward in a mental institution, is it important to Rebecca Jollotta to find out what the diagnosis and treatment was of their patient?” defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked. Jollotta agreed it was but acknowledged that she never did find out.[13]
Moreover, the drugs were prescribed without ordering any medical tests, despite the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) being clear about the importance of distinguishing general medical conditions from mental disorders with a thorough evaluation.[14]
“They are drug dealers in the literal sense.” – Dr. Roger McFillin, Clinical Psychologist
This serious omission was documented in her trial and commented on by numerous sources, including Dr. McFillin:
- Sept. 15, 2022. Lindsay met a psychiatrist for the first time, over video. Nobody took her pulse or blood pressure. Nobody weighed her. Nobody looked at her. No one drew blood, ordered a thyroid panel, checked iron or B12 or vitamin D, or asked what she was eating while breastfeeding an infant. There was no physical examination of any kind.[15]
- The antidepressant Zoloft was offered on that first visit. She declined it as she was breastfeeding, and she wanted to try therapy first.[16]
- But then, she wrote, “I had 3 young kids to take care of and was a touch anxious. So I did what you do…. asked a psychiatrist for some Zoloft.” After Lindsay increased her dosage per the doctor’s instructions, she “couldn’t sleep a wink,” she wrote. Lindsay reported she was awake for 48 straight hours. Her psychiatrist told her to stop taking Zoloft and advised her to take Ativan and Benadryl to help her sleep, according to the note. “That’s when everything started going downhill,” Lindsay wrote, saying she had become “dependent” on the medication to fall asleep.[17]
- Zoloft (sertraline) commonly disrupts sleep because it boosts serotonin activity, increases brain stimulation, and alters REM sleep patterns. It can also trigger early agitation.[18]
- October 20: Her insomnia was worsening with the dose increase; she had no appetite, diarrhea, was crying all day (which her note recording this said was not normal for her), and she was experiencing mental fog, racing thoughts overnight, and, in her own words, was paranoid of getting suicidal thoughts, something bad happening, and did not want to be alone. (Dr. McFillin commented: “This woman was reacting badly to this class of drug, and the compound should have been identified as the cause of her decline.”[19])
- Early November 2022: Tufts and Lindsay agreed on a plan to taper her off the Ativan, which the psychiatrist said has a risk of dependency. But by the next month, Tufts learned Lindsay had started taking multiple other medications prescribed by another provider. “Without the Ativan, she was having a lot of difficulty sleeping,” the psychiatrist testified.[20]
- Lindsay was worried about being addicted to drugs like Ativan. “I’m willing to try anything, I just keep coming back to the feeling that I’m dependent on Ativan after my two and a half weeks of taking it daily with Benadryl, following the bad reaction to Zoloft,” she wrote in a message to Jollotta. “I feel addicted to it, and I feel I’m not being heard that that is a possibility. I feel like we are throwing all these different meds at my insomnia when the root cause is Ativan dependence. I don’t feel any of the anxious thoughts I had before, I feel completely numb.”[21]
- Physical dependence can develop with regular use of a benzodiazepine in less than two to four weeks.[22] In 2020, the FDA issued its most severe black-box warning stating that the use of benzodiazepines “exposes users to risks of abuse, misuse, and addiction, which can lead to overdose or death.”[23] A 2017 study published in The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders determined that benzodiazepines were associated with increased suicide risk, possibly due to the fact they can increase impulsivity, aggression, or withdrawal symptoms.[24]
- November 21: The nurse practitioner prescribed the antidepressant Prozac. Four days later, the insomnia intensified and the Prozac was stopped abruptly. The same day, three new drugs were started at once: Ambien, Remeron, and Klonopin, on top of a benzodiazepine taper she had not completed. States McFillin: “Understand what abrupt discontinuation does. The brain immediately begins adapting to a drug’s presence by changing receptor number and sensitivity. Remove the drug and every one of those adaptations is left unopposed, producing a withdrawal state with its own timeline and its own symptoms, which look almost identical to the complaints that brought her in.”[25]
- The next day McFillin notes that she cannot tell what is real. She reports it immediately: the world seems unreal, distorted, and distant; she’s disoriented, forgetful, disconnected from her own body, unable to drive or be left alone.[26]
- Days later, an antipsychotic is added. By December 6, her husband was in a medical appointment saying his wife is 10,000 times worse since the drugs began, and the antipsychotic Seroquel already being prescribed was increased toward 400 milligrams a day.[27]
- December 20: Lindsay went to the partial hospitalization program at Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, where she was evaluated but not admitted. According to her civil complaint, the clinical team concluded that her symptoms were more pharmacologically induced than depressive, that she was overmedicated, and that their program was not appropriate for her, because what she had was not postpartum depression. “That is the only correct assessment anyone made in four months,” wrote McFillin.[28]
- January 9, 2023: Lindsay was prescribed the benzodiazepine diazepam, then on January 12, trazodone, followed by the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline on January 16.
- January 23: The amitriptyline was doubled. Her children died the following afternoon.[29]
Dr. McFillin questioned stopping an SSRI cold after an adverse reaction left Lindsay awake for 48 hours straight and then handing her a second drug from the same class four weeks later, only to stop that one abruptly as well. “And then, in a single afternoon, to start three new drugs on top of a taper she never finished?” Generally, he raises concerns about psychiatrists administering powerful chemical compounds that alter mood, cognition, and perception, in combinations no one has studied, at doses whose biological effect no one has measured, to bodies whose capacity to process them no one has evaluated, and then attribute whatever follows to the patient’s illness. “They are drug dealers in the literal sense.”[30]
Dr. McFillin summarized: “Lindsay Clancy asked for help in September, followed the medical advice, and reported the adverse reactions to her providers. She went to emergency rooms, called crisis lines, and admitted herself twice, including to the most prestigious psychiatric hospital in the country. She did every single thing a person is supposed to do, and she got worse at every step… This is the profession that could not recognize an adverse drug reaction in a woman who reported it to them for four months straight. This is the profession that wrote down poor insight after they harmed her with drugs.”[31]
Trial records showed psychiatrist Jennifer Tufts prescribed Clancy the antidepressants sertraline (Zoloft), trazodone (Desyrel), and amitriptyline; the benzodiazepines lorazepam (Ativan) and diazepam (Valium); buspirone (BuSpar, anti-anxiety drug); and lamotrigine (Lamictal), at different times. Tufts admitted that she only met Lindsay on telehealth visits and acknowledged increasing Clancy’s drug treatment one day before the children were strangled.[32]
The Seroquel Nightmare
Seroquel (quetiapine) is approved for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, but was prescribed off-label to Lindsay for insomnia. Dr. Lauren Grawert, a psychiatrist and addiction specialist in Boston, notes that its sedation does not equal restorative sleep and that this use involves a different risk-benefit calculation.[33]
Lindsay’s journal described worsening anxiety, panic attacks, numbness, new intrusive thoughts, and suicidal ideation after starting Seroquel. She was later instructed to take it twice daily; the second dose made her feel “like someone other than myself.”[34]
By January 2023, after weeks of reported worsening symptoms, she was voluntarily admitted to McLean psychiatric hospital for five days, where Seroquel was discontinued, raising questions about potential withdrawal symptoms if suddenly stopped. Her husband Patrick Clancy testified that her “big spiral” began around the time she started the drug in early December 2022; she lost significant weight, became deeply depressed, and for the first time expressed suicidal thoughts.[35]
Weight gain, elevated blood sugar, and metabolic changes are documented risks. The FDA label also lists psychosis, hallucinations, paranoid reaction, delusions, manic reaction, and apathy among possible effects.[36] A 2021 systematic review published in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry examined published evidence on quetiapine withdrawal: It identified 13 case reports linking rapid cessation of quetiapine to somatic symptoms that included agitation, restlessness, irritability, anxiety, dysphoria, and sleep disturbance/insomnia.[37]
In 2010, Seroquel’s manufacturer AstraZeneca was fined $520 million by the U.S. government over its marketing of the antipsychotic.[38]
Among service members, the drug is nicknamed “Serokill” because of the sudden deaths linked to the drug. There is an increased risk of sudden cardiac death with antipsychotics, and internationally there have been a number of high-profile court cases in the media concerning deaths related to quetiapine involving drug interactions or overdose, as reported by Australian Prescriber in 2015. As early as 2011, the manufacturer, AstraZeneca, added a new heart warning to the labels of Seroquel.[39]
Desperate for Solutions: Psychiatry’s Failed Help
Lindsay’s attorneys said she did everything she could to seek help: She turned to multiple outpatient providers, tried various drugs they prescribed, called a suicide hotline, went to an emergency room, and approached but wasn’t accepted into a hospital-based, full-day treatment program for women with post-pregnancy mental health problems. She checked herself into a psychiatric hospital for several days. Rather than improving, her condition worsened on the ever-remixed cocktail of psychiatric medications, some of them problematic for bipolar patients, her attorneys and family say. Several weeks before killing her kids, she also searched online about hallucinations, psychosis, and the side effects of several drugs she was prescribed.[40]
January 24: The Day of the Horrific Senseless Killing
Patrick Clancy testified that that morning began like a normal day for the family. Lindsay took their daughter to a scheduled pediatrician appointment while Patrick stayed home with the younger kids. “She was having one of her best days,” he told jurors. Around 4:50 p.m., Lindsay texted asking if he wanted takeout because she “didn’t cook anything” and it had “been a long day.” He said his ex-wife was standing in the doorway near the basement stairs holding Callan when he left. Asked to describe her demeanor, he responded that she appeared “normal.” Evidence indicates he left around 5:15 p.m. to pick up medication at CVS and takeout and returned around 6:09 p.m., less than an hour later. Patrick found his wife Clancy lying face up in the backyard beneath the window with deep cuts on her wrists and what appeared to be a wound across her neck. Lindsay told him, “I tried to kill myself.” When he asked where the children were, she replied, “They’re in the basement.” She did not tell him what condition the children were in and described her as “in and out of consciousness.” Patrick Clancy remained with Lindsay Clancy until first responders arrived. While still connected to 911, he then went inside to check on the children. He found them in the basement. A responding officer separately testified that Patrick screamed: “She killed the f—ing kids.”[41]
Prosecutors argue that the evidence shows her actions were premeditated. One forensic toxicologist asserted that the concentration of antidepressants and antipsychotics in her blood was well below levels considered “toxic or suicidal.”[42] However, akathisia is an emotional state caused primarily by antidepressants and antipsychotics, marked by anxiety or agitation, feeling emotionally uneasy, bad or depressed, dark and unpleasant thoughts, homicidality, suicidality, rage and unusual impulses, often of an aggressive nature. It may start within an hour of a first pill or only appear after days, weeks, or months. It may only start when the dose of the drug is increased or decreased, or the drug is stopped.[43]
Renowned international expert researcher Dr. Peter C. Gøtzsche notes: “One of the best guarded secrets in psychiatry is that antidepressants increase the risk of violence, including suicide and homicide.” He states that antidepressants can change peaceful citizens into killers. “Many who committed homicide while taking these pills behaved normally before starting, developed akathisia on the drug, and returned to their normal personality once off the offending drug.” Monitoring patients daily is a dire warning about how dangerous antidepressants are, he adds. “The package insert states that any psychoactive drug may impair judgment, which is important to remember in homicide cases. It mentions that all patients should be monitored for any unusual changes in behavior, and they should call their healthcare provider right away or call 911 if an emergency and if they are:
- acting on dangerous impulses
- acting aggressive or violent
- feeling agitated, restless, angry or irritable
- having racing thoughts
- having reckless behavior
- having unusually grand ideas.”[44]
Health Canada went much further than the FDA’s warnings. They declared that “patients of all ages taking these drugs may experience behavioral and/or emotional changes that may put them at increased risk of self-harm or harm to others.”[45]
The Andrea Yates Case: Parallels
In a similar, potentially drug-induced, heartrending crime, on June 20, 2001, in Houston, Texas, 37-year-old mother Andrea Yates drowned her five children (ages 6 months to 7 years) in a bathtub. She had a history of psychiatric hospitalizations, prescribed drugs (including the antidepressants Remeron, Effexor, and previously Wellbutrin, plus the antipsychotic Haldol), and suicide attempts. A science consultant, Edward G. Ezrailson, Ph.D., wrote that a combination of the drugs contributed to involuntary intoxication and worsened her behavior. The “overdose” of one antidepressant and “sudden high doses” of another “worsened her behavior,” he said. This “led to murder.”[46]
During her trial, Yates’ attorneys questioned the judgment of her prescriber, Dr. Mohammed Saeed, who acknowledged he discontinued Yates’ prescription of Haldol 16 days before she killed the children. He saw Yates before the drownings and recorded that he found no evidence of psychosis. This was starkly contradicted by Dr. Ellen Allbritton, a psychiatrist who admitted Yates March 31 to Devereux Treatment Center. “She looked very ill, withdrawn. It looked like she hadn’t taken care of herself in quite some time,” Allbritton told the court. “I wouldn’t have trusted her to walk across the street.”[47]
Yates was initially convicted of capital murder in 2002, but the conviction was overturned in 2006 due to false testimony by a state psychiatric witness. In a retrial, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state mental hospital.[48]
In November 2005—more than four years after the tragic drownings—Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (the then-manufacturer of Effexor XR/venlafaxine) added “homicidal ideation” to the list of rare adverse events in the drug’s labeling. The FDA defines rare as occurring in less than one in 1,000 people. But since that same year 19.2 million prescriptions for Effexor were filled in the U.S., statistically that means thousands of Americans might experience “homicidal ideation”—murderous thoughts—as a result of taking just this one brand of antidepressant drug. Effexor accounted for almost a fifth of the company’s annual revenues.[49]
Courts and coroners have directly implicated antidepressants in at least seven cases relating to SSRIs:
- 1989, Kentucky (Wesbecker case): Joseph Wesbecker killed 8 people and wounded 12 before suicide while on Prozac. The coroner concluded Prozac “in certain individuals has caused a violent, hostile type of reaction.”[50]
- 1990, Illinois (Walters case): Larry Walters fatally stabbed his father while on Prozac. The judge gave probation, stating he believed Walters was defending himself from a drug-induced attack and that “Prozac played an important part in my decision.”[51]
- 1991, California (Johnson case): Mavis Marie Johnson shot and killed her husband while on Prozac. A jury convicted her of a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and her sentence was suspended. According to one article, the court believed Prozac may have been a contributory factor.[52]
- 1998, Wyoming (Schell case): Donald Schell killed his wife, daughter, and granddaughter after two days on Paxil, then suicided. A jury found the drug 80% responsible and awarded $6.4 million.[53]
- 1999, Australia (Hawkins case): David Hawkins strangled his wife while on Zoloft. The judge ruled the drug was responsible: “but for the effect of the 250 mg of Zoloft, it is wholly unlikely that the prisoner would have committed the crime to which he had pleaded guilty.”[54]
- 2000, Connecticut (DeAngelo case): Christopher DeAngelo committed bank robbery while on high doses of Prozac and Xanax. The judge acquitted him on grounds of diminished capacity, supported by multiple psychiatrists.[55]
- 2009, Canada: A 16-year-old knifed his friend to death while on Prozac. The judge found the drug caused impulsive violence; behavior normalized after stopping.[56]
More Cases of Physician Criminal Culpability
The following physician convictions center on the patient’s own death by overdose caused by reckless or illegal prescribing, not on the patient then committing violence against others. However, they reinforce a pattern illustrated by the Youngkin and Canarelli precedents: when prescribing of powerful, mind-altering or highly toxic drugs is reckless, criminal responsibility can attach.
- Dr. Stan Xuhui Li (New York, convicted 2014; upheld 2019): Convicted of two counts of second-degree manslaughter (and numerous related charges) after two patients died of overdoses involving opioids and other controlled substances he prescribed, including the benzodiazepine alprazolam (Xanax). The case involved “pill-mill” style prescribing with minimal examination or documentation. New York’s highest court later affirmed that manslaughter charges can apply when a physician’s reckless prescribing creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of death.[57]
- Dr. Hsiu-Ying “Lisa” Tseng (California, sentenced 2016): Convicted of second-degree murder for the overdose deaths of three patients after extreme over-prescribing of painkillers. She received a sentence of 30 years to life—the first U.S. physician convicted of murder on this theory.[58]
- Dr. George Blatti (Long Island, New York, sentenced 2024): Pleaded guilty to five counts of manslaughter after five patients died from overdoses linked to opioids he over-prescribed (sometimes while working from his car). He was sentenced to 5–15 years.[59]
- Dr. Lawrence Choy (New York, 2019): Convicted on manslaughter and related charges after three patients died following illegal sales of prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances (including benzodiazepines) in lethal dosages and combinations, with inadequate examinations. He received a prison sentence.[60]
Psychiatry’s Neglectful “Standard of Care”
According to Tufts’ profile page for Aster Mental Health, a practice in Massachusetts, her areas of specialty include PTSD and trauma-related disorders, mood disorders, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, and substance abuse. Tufts attended the University of Vermont, where she obtained her medical degree in 2018. She then completed her medical residency at Boston University in July 2022, and in that same month, she started at Aster Mental Health.[61]
Media described the psychiatrist as appearing frustrated, impolite, and unprepared on the stand, with “bumbling” answers during questioning by Reddington. Tufts was called as a witness by the prosecution and acknowledged that she treated Lindsay and prescribed her multiple psychiatric drugs during the four months before the killings without ever meeting her in person. Their contacts were conducted by telehealth video calls.[62]
Reddington also challenged Tufts over her limited postpartum experience, her clinical notes, the extent of her assessment of Lindsay, and whether she had represented herself as having expertise in postpartum psychiatry.[63]
Neither Tufts nor Jollotta ordered the blood work or physical tests a doctor should first rule out when suspecting a diagnosis of postpartum depression. Blood work and tests should check for:
- Vitamin and mineral deficiencies
- Thyroid dysfunction
- Hormonal imbalances
- Blood sugar irregularities
- Chronic inflammation or infections
A Full or Complete Blood Count is an essential test that evaluates red and white blood cells as well as platelets. This test is particularly useful for addressing symptoms such as fatigue, poor concentration, and issues related to energy production. Postpartum iron test. This test includes measurements of serum iron, ferritin, transferrin, and transferrin saturation, helping to pinpoint the cause of symptoms like fatigue, dizziness, brain fog, and shortness of breath. The Thyroid Function Test evaluates thyroid health and is especially important for identifying postpartum thyroiditis (PT), which can significantly affect metabolism and mood. This test is particularly valuable for understanding symptoms like anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, hair loss, and sensitivity to temperature changes. A Fasting Insulin test assesses blood sugar regulation and helps identify early signs of insulin resistance. This test is often more indicative of blood sugar imbalances than fasting glucose levels and is essential for addressing symptoms such as fatigue, irritability, brain fog, disrupted sleep, and menstrual irregularities. Finally, a Vitamin D test is crucial for evaluating levels of this important nutrient, which supports mood, blood sugar regulation, immune function, hormone balance, and tissue healing. Additional tests that may be beneficial include thyroid antibodies for abnormal thyroid results, vitamin B12 and folate for issues related to energy, mood, and cognition, and electrolytes to assess hydration and fluid balance.[64]
In January 2026, Clancy filed a lawsuit against Tufts and others, and in response, Tufts denied negligence and said she has sought a medical malpractice tribunal review. The Boston Globe (10 August) and The Sun (August 12) reported Tufts requested the evidence cited in the lawsuit to be reviewed by a “medical malpractice tribunal,” and that under Massachusetts law a three-person tribunal (including medical and legal experts) can be demanded by a party to evaluate whether sufficient evidence of negligence exists.[65] Patrick Clancy also filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
On August 13, an independent formal complaint was filed against Dr. Tufts with the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, asking for an investigation into Tufts’ evidence that she never met the patient in person until appearing as a witness at the murder trial. She acknowledged that she could not fully observe the patient’s body language, hands, or legs. Despite these limitations, she initiated and continued prescribing multiple psychiatric medications.
Dr. McFillin concludes: “Lindsay Clancy told the professionals treating her that the drugs were making her worse. Their response is in the record: she lacked insight, she was being poisoned, so they gave her more. Thirteen different drugs. Seven different prescribers. Over 30 prescriptions in four months. Call it what it is—this is drugging a woman into oblivion under the banner of healthcare. This is not an isolated failure. It is the standard of care, and it is only being examined now because children died. The question was never whether one woman was insane. The question is what was foreseeable.”[66]
It is precisely because the psychotropic drug effects have been documented in case after case of violence and self-harm that CCHR regards the recent Tennessee law mandating toxicology screening for psychiatric drugs in acts of mass violence as imperative. Without routine testing, the role of prescribed psychotropics remains invisible, allowing patterns of drug-induced or drug-exacerbated violence to go unexamined and unaddressed. The law creates a factual baseline that can inform both prevention and accountability.
Taken together, the Clancy trial testimony, the historical precedents of criminal liability for reckless psychiatric prescribing, the 145 cases compiled in CCHR’s White Paper, and the long-documented risks of antidepressants, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, and mood stabilizers underscore a single reality: when powerful chemicals that alter mood, cognition, and perception are administered in unstudied combinations and escalating doses, the outcomes can be catastrophic. Psychiatry’s “standard of care” has for too long treated these risks as secondary. The public record now demands that they be treated as central—by clinicians, by regulators, by legislators, and by those charged with investigating acts of violence. Only then can the cycle of preventable tragedy begin to be broken.
Important Note on the Prescribers Named in This Article
This article reports on publicly available evidence, sworn trial testimony, medical records referenced in open court, contemporaneous notes written by Lindsay Clancy, expert commentary, and contemporaneous media coverage of the proceedings. It raises legitimate questions of public interest concerning polypharmacy, the absence of routine physical and laboratory evaluation, the management of reported adverse effects, and the broader standard of care in psychiatric prescribing. Dr. Jennifer Tufts and psychiatric nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta have denied negligence. Nothing in this article is intended as a finding of fact or a determination of legal or professional liability against any named clinician. Those determinations rest exclusively with the courts and regulatory bodies.
The larger issues—the risks of multi-drug psychiatric regimens, the documented capacity of certain psychotropic agents to induce or exacerbate agitation, akathisia, suicidal and homicidal ideation, and the need for rigorous toxicology screening in cases of violence—remain matters of urgent public concern regardless of the ultimate outcome of any individual case.
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