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Antidepressant use among teen girls and young women has skyrocketed? Simply because those who should know better are unnecessarily over prescribing to that age
by reify 2y ago
Antidepressant use among teen girls and young women has skyrocketed?
Simply because those who should know better are unnecessarily over prescribing to that age range.
I always thought that Antidepressant had been banned from being prescribed to the under 25's back in 2004 because of a huge increase in suicide risk.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00294/full https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10....
yet they still keep prescribing even knowing the dangers.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoAs the article you link shows, it wasn't banned, it just required a warning, and there are questions about whether that did more harm than good. Also, it only applied to SSRIs, not other antidepressants