Antidepressants lower suicide risk for adults, raise it for youths: review

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 12:42 in Psychology & Sociology

The SSRI class of antidepressants thought to raise the risk of suicide among teens may significantly reduce the risk in adults, a review suggests. The findings should be reassuring for doctors prescribing the drugs to adults, but children and adolescents should be followed very closely, study's authors say.

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