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Debate Over Antidepressants Widening to Adults?

  • February 18, 2005

The long debate over the increased risk of suicides among children who take antidepressants may soon grow to include adults, prompting some experts to call for clinical trials. What raised those concerns: A trio of studies appearing in this week's British Medical Journal that report mixed results. Although two studies showed no significant link between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) and suicide, a third found adults taking these drugs were twice as likely to attempt...