Study Finds Medication Raises Suicide Risks in Young Adults
" In a long-awaited analysis, health officials reported yesterday that antidepressant medication appeared to increase significantly the risk of suicide attempts and related behaviors in adults under 25, while reducing such risks in older people. The analysis, the most comprehensive and rigorous to date, found that suicidal behavior of any kind was rare, and that people taking the medications were no more likely to kill themselves than those taking placebo pills. But adults under 25 taking the drugs were more than twice as likely as those on placebos to report a suicide attempt, or to prepare for one by, say, writing a suicide note."
For the full article written by Benedict Carey..go to NY Times
Dec -6-2006 article titled same as above title.
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