Citation

Barber C, Azrael DR, Miller MC. BMJ 2014; 349: g5645.

Affiliation

Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bmj.g5645

PMID

25301785

Abstract

We question Lu and colleagues’ findings that the prescription of antidepressants decreased and suicide attempts in young people increased after the Food and Drug Administration released warnings about antidepressant safety for two reasons. Firstly, the measure they use as a proxy of suicide attempts (poisonings by psychotropics) is faulty and, secondly, more direct measures of attempts and deaths show no increase, on balance ....

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