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From my understanding, there are specific drugs that have been suggested to increase suicide rates among the depressed, mainly younger patients. Whether this is causal or not has yet to be determined. The FDA is pretty quick to act on things like this, often before the full data are known, which is probably as it should be. At this point it is a warning to physicians to use caution when prescribing anti-depressants and inform the patient of the risks.
As for the rest of the discussion, I feel pretty strongly that American society is spiraling into a mindset of drug dependance and that we will be paying the price soon. Everyone is at fault, from physicians to drug companies to patients. It seems that everything has to have a label attached to it these days and, by God there oughta be a pill for that!!
Eventually we are going to figure out that the more pills you take the less healthy you become. I have seen multiple patients who are on a drug for depression, one for insomnia, one for anxiety, one for chronic pain, one for fatigue, and one for irritable bowels and guess what....they aren't happy.
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Rick
1984 911 coupe
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