Antidepressants and suicide in young people
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Antidepressants and suicide among young women in Sweden 1999–2013
OBJECTIVE To establish whether the young women (15-24 year old) who committed suicide in Sweden (1999-2013) received antidepressant treatment or not, and to what extent, prior to and/or at the time of suicide. To investigate the belief that increased prescription of antidepressants would drastically reduce the number of suicides. METHODS An analysis of data from the Swedish Prescribed Drug Re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal of Australia
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0025-729X,1326-5377
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01423.x