Posted by notfred on February 12, 2007, at 16:25:54
In reply to Re: Teen Suicide Spike Linked to reduced SSRI use, posted by Squiggles on February 12, 2007, at 15:59:51
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> What's paradoxical about it?A drug that should reduce sucide rates carries a warning that in some cases it might increase sucide rates (something of a paradox itself). Then these warnings cause doc's to use them less and the sucide rate rises. The paradox here is that the warnings seem to cause increases of the very thing they attempt to protect the patient from.
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