NEWS
WORRYING NEWS ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS
THE FIRST EVER REVIEW OF TRIALS OF ANTIDEPRESSANTS TAKEN BY HEALTHY ADULTS WITH NO SIGNS OF A MENTAL DISORDER HAS ESTABLISHED THAT ANTIDEPRESSANTS DOUBLED THE HARMS RELATED TO SUICIDE AND VIOLENCE.
The analysis, published recently by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, was undertaken because the harms of antidepressants, including the risk of suicide, are often explained away as if they are disease symptoms or only a problem in children.
Thirteen double-blind, placebo- controlled trials were included in the systematic review and meta-analysis undertaken by the research team from the Nordic Cochrane Centre and
the University of Copenhagen. The researchers believe that the review actually underestimates the harms of antidepressants since they had access to only the published articles for eleven of the thirteen trials, rather than being able to analyse the full data held by the drug companies.
‘While it is now generally accepted
that antidepressants increase the risk of suicide and violence in children and adolescents,’ said lead author, Professor Peter Gøtzsche, of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, ‘most people believe that these drugs are not dangerous for adults. This is a potentially lethal misconception.
‘The reporting of harms in drug trials is generally poor. Our review established that the trials did not report much about their methodology and that the reporting of adverse events was generally inadequate.’
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