Citation

Olfson M, Schoenbaum M. BMJ 2014; 349: g5614.

Affiliation

National Institute of Mental Health , Bethesda, MD, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bmj.g5614

PMID

25301267

Abstract

Lu and colleagues hypothesised that US Food and Drug Administration antidepressant safety warnings reduced antidepressant prescribing and thereby increased suicide attempts in young people.1 They investigated associations in three age groups between antidepressant prescribing before and after the warnings and suicide attempts, as measured by psychotropic poisonings in patients presenting to emergency departments or admitted to hospital. We question their conclusions that . . . .

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