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.