@article{ref1,
title="Antidepressants and Youth Suicide in New York City, 1999-2002",
journal="Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry",
year="2006",
author="Leon, Andrew C. and Marzuk, Peter M. and Tardiff, Kenneth and Bucciarelli, Angela and Markham Piper, Katharine and Galea, Sandro",
volume="45",
number="9",
pages="1054-1058",
abstract="OBJECTIVE:: To determine the proportion of youth suicides in New York City from 1999 to 2002 in which antidepressants were detected at autopsy. METHOD:: This is a medical examiner surveillance study of suicides in New York City among those younger than 18 years of age. The outcome measure is serum toxicology for antidepressants. RESULTS:: From 1999 through 2002, there were 41 individuals younger than 18 years of age among residents of New York City who committed suicide. Thirty-six(87.8%) had a serum toxicological analysis and an injury death interval of 3 days or less. There was one (2.8%) suicide in which both buproprion and sertraline were detected at the time of autopsy. Antidepressants were not detected in any of the other youth suicides. CONCLUSIONS:: The detection of antidepressants at autopsy was quite rare in youth suicides in New York City from 1999 to 2002.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0890-8567",
doi="10.1097/01.chi.0000227875.12286.a2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.chi.0000227875.12286.a2"
}