ArticleActa psychiatrica Scandinavica2014
Antidepressants and the risk of suicide in young persons--prescription trends and toxicological analyses.
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- Risk of Suicidal Behaviors and Antidepressant Exposure Among Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Inpatient suicide in psychiatric settings: Evaluation of current prevention measures.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
- Electroconvulsive therapy efficacy in adolescents with mental illness: A retrospective comparison.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Duty to Warn: Antidepressant Black Box Suicidality Warning Is Empirically Justified.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Review
- Determination of Antidepressants and Antipsychotics in Dried Blood Spots (DBSs) Collected from Post-Mortem Samples and Evaluation of the Stability over a Three-Month Period.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Adherence to psychotropic medication in completed suicide in Sweden 2006-2013: a forensic-toxicological matched case-control study.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2019Article
- The FDA "Black Box" Warning on Antidepressant Suicide Risk in Young Adults: More Harm Than Benefits?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Characteristics of Drugs Ingested for Suicide Attempts in the Elderly.Journal of Korean medical science · 2018Article
- Suicidality: prevention, detection and intervention.Australian prescriber · 2017Review
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Violent Crime: A Cohort Study.PLoS medicine · 2015Article
- Antidepressant drugs and the risk of suicide in children and adolescents.Paediatric drugs · 2014Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess trends in the use of antidepressants among young suicides after the warning that these drugs might increase the risk of suicide.
methodIndividual data of all 845 suicides in the 10- to 19-year age group in Sweden in the time period 1992-2003 (baseline), and in 2004-2010 (after the warning). Outcome data are prescriptions of antidepressants prior to death and detections of antidepressants in post-mortem toxicology.
resultsAfter the warning, suicide in this age group increased for five consecutive years (60.5%). The increase occurred among individuals not treated with antidepressants.
conclusionThis study provides further support for the hypothesis that the warning, contrary to its intention, may have increased young suicides by leaving a number of suicidal young persons without treatment with antidepressants.
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