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Re: Teen Suicide Spike Linked to reduced SSRI use

Posted by notfred on February 12, 2007, at 16:49:40

In reply to Re: Teen Suicide Spike Linked to reduced SSRI use, posted by Squiggles on February 12, 2007, at 16:36:54

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> > > What's paradoxical about it?
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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.

You asked me what was ment by the quote. I did not say AD's were indroduced with the promise of reducing suicide. They treat depression which is very related to sucide.


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