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Title: UK Telegraph: Antidepressant risks may have been seriously underestimated
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UK Telegraph
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/hea ... biggest-ever-review-finds.html
Published: Jan 27, 2016
Author: Sarah Knapton, Science Editor
Post Date: 2016-01-31 19:10:58 by Operation 40
Keywords: drugs, antidepressants, suicide
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Antidepressant use doubles the risk of suicide in under 18s and the risks to adults may have been seriously underestimated, researchers found Sarah Knapton, Science Editor UK Telegraph Antidepressants can raise the risk of suicide, the biggest ever review has found, as pharmaceutical companies were accused of failing to report side-effects and even deaths linked to the drugs. An analysis of 70 trials of the most common antidepressants - involving more than 18,000 people - found they doubled the risk of suicide and aggressive behaviour in under 18s. Although a similarly stark link was not seen in adults, the authors said misreporting of trial data could have led to a ‘serious under-estimation of the harms. For years families have claimed that antidepressant medication drove their loved ones to commit suicide, but have been continually dismissed by medical companies and doctors who claimed a link was unproven. The review -the biggest oif its kind into the effects of the drugs - was carried out by the Nordic Cochrane Centre and analysed by University College London (UCL) who today endorse the findings in an editorial in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). After comparing clinical trial information to actual patient reports the scientists found pharmaceutical companies had regularly misclassified deaths and suicidal events in people taking anti-depressants to "favour their products". Experts said the review's findings were "startling" and said it was "deeply worrying" that clinical trials appear to have been misreported. Dr Joanna Moncrieff from University College London said: "People in the United Kingdom are consuming more than four times as many antidepressants as they did two decades ago. Despite this, we still do not fully understand the effects of these drugs.” The UK now has the seventh highest prescribing rate for antidepressants in the Western world, with around four million Britons taking them each year - twice as many as a decade ago at a cost of more than £200 million a year for the 53 million prescriptions now written...snip ...More than half of the suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts had been misrecorded as emotional instability or worsening of depression. In summary trial reports from the drugs giant Eli Lilly, suicidal attempts were missing in 90 per cent of cases. SNIP Read Full Article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/12126146/Antidepressants-can-raise-the-risk-of-suicide-biggest-ever-review-finds.html Poster Comment: Some of us tried to tell some of you that you were worried about the wrong "drugs". Here's proof. Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it. SSRI Stories is a collection of over 6,000 stories that have appeared in the media (newspapers, TV, scientific journals) in which prescription drugs were mentioned and in which the drugs may be linked to a variety of adverse outcomes including violence. 
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More likely, they failed to prevent the suicide that was inevitable.
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"For years families have claimed that antidepressant medication drove their loved ones to commit suicide"
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