After the FDA issued warnings about antidepressants, youth suicides rose and mental health care dropped
- Written by Stephen Soumerai, Professor of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
The link between antidepressant use and increases in suicidal thoughts or behaviors among treated youth is unproven.FatCamera/E+ via Getty ImagesDepression in young people is vastly undertreated. About two-thirds of depressed youth don’t receive any mental health care at all. Of those who do, a significant proportion rely on antidepressant...