Healthy Skepticism Library item: 8707

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Publication type: Journal Article

Rosack J.
Impact of FDA Warning Questioned in Suicide Rise
Psychiatr News 2007 Mar 2; 42:(5):1
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/5/1

Abstract:

The data are disturbing-child and adolescent suicides rose from 2003 to 2004 after a decade of steady declines. What caused the increase?

The number of suicides of youth under age 20 made a dramatic leap from 2003 to 2004, representing an increase of 18.2 percent. Many experts are questioning whether the increase is tied to a contemporaneous steep decline in antidepressant prescriptions filled for this population that began after the Food and Drug Administration issued its first strong warnings about the drugs’ links to increased suicidality in March 2004…

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