Children given antidepressants are twice as likely to become suicidal, claims new study

Children given antidepressants are twice as likely to become suicidal, claims new study Children and adolescents are twice as likely to exhibit suicidal or aggressive behaviour if they take commonly prescribed antidepressants, according to a new study.

Researchers also found that reports on clinical trials by drug companies frequently downplayed the most serious side-effects, which they only discovered by looking at the raw patient data. The Independent

See also:

• Suicidality and aggression during antidepressant treatment: systematic review and meta-analyses based on clinical study reports The BMJ