Drugs Raise Risk of Suicide

Drugs Raise Risk of Suicide
Analysis of Data Adds to Concerns On Antidepressants
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff WriterFriday, February 18, 2005; Page A01

Adults taking popular antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide as patients given sugar pills, according to an analysis released yesterday of hundreds of clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients.
The results mirror a recent finding of the Food and Drug Administration that the drugs increase suicidal thoughts and behavior among some children, and offer tangible support to concerns going back 15 years that the mood-lifting pills have a dark side.

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