Antidepressant-suicide link in youths absent in new analysis
Monday, February 6, 2012 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
In 2004, concerns about antidepressant drugs increasing suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young patients prompted the FDA to issue a rare "black box warning." Now, a new analysis of clinical trial data finds that treatment with the antidepressant fluoxetine did not increase or decrease suicidality in children compared to placebo treatment.