Posted by Squiggles on February 12, 2007, at 16:36:54
In reply to Re: Teen Suicide Spike Linked to reduced SSRI use, posted by notfred on February 12, 2007, at 16:25:54
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> A drug that should reduce sucide rates carries a warning that in some cases it might increase sucide rates (something of a paradox itself). Then these warnings cause doc's to use them less and the sucide rate rises. The paradox here is that the warnings seem to cause increases of the very thing they attempt to protect the patient from.
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I may have lost you here. The SSRIs were not introduced with the promise of reducing suicide. Rather, they were the new class of antidepressants that had minimal side effects in comparison to the older ADs and had a faster remission rate on depression.That they caused suicide was one the statistical reports from Dr. David Healy.
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As for the effect of the warnings, I think you yourself said that the BLACK BOX does not appear on the prescription bottle but rather on the pharmaceutical blurb. Perhaps a further study on how often doctors and patients read such warnings, let alone take them very seriously may corroberate this reported increase in suicides.Squiggles
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