Citation

Henry JA. Hum. Psychopharmacol. 1994; 9(1 S): S37-S39.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/hup.470090708

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Antidepressants relieve depression, but many are highly toxic if taken in overdose, causing over 250 deaths in Britain each year. Ninety‐seven per cent of these deaths are due to the older tricyclic drugs. Prescribing antidepressant drugs with lower toxicity in overdose could prevent many of these deaths, and is thus the most immediately available from of suicide prevention. Copyright © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Language: en

Keywords

human; suicide; depression; Antidepressants; overdose; drug overdose; death; conference paper; monoamine oxidase inhibitor; serotonin uptake inhibitor; tricyclic antidepressant agent; priority journal; drug toxicity