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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jacob Phillips

Waltham Forest teenager 'hugged mum and told her medication wasn't working' before taking her own life

Emily Burns took her own life days after she received an initial psychology assessment - (Supplied)

A London teenager hugged her mother and said she believed her medication needed to be increased hours before she took her own life.

Emily Burns, 18, death followed “a lack of safety planning” when she was discharged from adolescent mental health services in north east London, an inquest into her death was told.

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