ANTI-DEPRESSANTS STUDY
September 1st, 2004
BY MONICA DOBIEPATIENTS finishing a course of anti-depressants are not at an increased risk of suicide according to a study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which examined concerns they can fall into dangerous pits of despair. Patients, regardless of sex, were three to four times more likely to report suicidal thoughts or attempts in the first 10 days of treatment than after three months on the medication. The findings were similar for all examined medication, whether prescribed for adults or children.The research conducted at the ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.