Study Finds Medication Raises Suicide Risks in Young Adults

In a long-awaited analysis, FDA officials reported yesterday that antidepressant medications appeared to increase significantly the risk of suicide attempts and related behaviors in adults under 25. The analysis, the most comprehensive and rigorous to date, found that suicidal behavior of any kind was rare, and that people taking the medications were no more likely to kill themselves than those taking placebo pills. But adults under 25 taking the drugs were more than twice as likely as those on placebos to report a suicide attempt, or to prepare for one by, say, writing a suicide note.

Bonnie - let this be a stern warning for young adults over 18 or parents thinking about giving antidepressants to their children.