Posted by SLS on November 4, 2006, at 6:50:29
In reply to Re: SEROQUEL...monotherapy for Depression?/Li, posted by linkadge on November 3, 2006, at 10:00:44
> Antidepressants have not statistically altered the rate of suicide since their introduction.
I guess that depends upon whose statistics you look at.
"Suicide rates rose steadily from 1960 to 1988, when Prozac [fluoxetine], the first SSRI drug, was introduced," he said. "Since then, suicide rates have dropped precipitously, sliding from the eighth to the 11th leading cause of death in the United States."
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/40/7/29
- Scott
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