Prescribed drugs.

"I want to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else," she said. "It must be happening every single day and there doesn't seem to be a system in place to stop it."

I am with her. I feel for her and I think she has lost her son in sad circumstances and wants to make something good come out of it. It would be good because there are all sorts of reasons why there should be proper checks and balances on prescribed medication. Sometimes it may be the doctors who do things in good faith. Sometimes it may be the patients who don't administer their drugs properly and sometimes it is a case of too much too often. We are becoming more accurate with this . We can determine drug levels through blood tests. In that sense we can be far more accurate in our management of the correct dose for an individual. Some people do not understand there are problems if you mix prescribed medication with other things and it might be something like the food you are eating or the vitamins you are taking. With computers , case histories ought to be able to be managed better. Maybe the privacy laws cut across that. This man lost his life at 23 . Maybe we can do better than this if we think about it and then Mrs MacMahon might get some comfort.