Opinion: Antidepressants and the Risk of Suicide in Children and Adolescents: What's the Link?

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Free AccessOpinion: Antidepressants and the Risk of Suicide in Children and Adolescents: What's the Link?Adil ViraniAdil Virani1. Adjunct Professor with the College of Pharmacy and a Lecturer with the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University. Also practices at the IWK Health Centre as the Clinical Pharmacy Consultant for the Pharmacy Department where he specializes in the area of child and adolescent psychiatry.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:June 2005https://doi.org/10.1521/capn.9.4.1.48742PDFPDF PLUS ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations AboutSuggested ReadingsGarland , E.J. (2004). Facing the evidence: Antidepressant treatment in children and adolescents. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 170(4), 489–91. Google ScholarOlfson , M., Gameroff, M.J., Marcus, S.C., & Waslick, B.D. (2003). Outpatient treatment of child and adolescent depression in the United States. Archive of General Psychiatry, 60, 1236–1242. Crossref, Google ScholarThe American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Executive Summary. Preliminary Report of the Task Force on SSRIs and Suicidal Behavior in Youth. Available at URL: http://www.acnp.org/exec_summary.pdf. Accessed August 15,2004 Google ScholarTreatment for Adolescents With Depression Study Team. Fluoxetine, cognitive–behavioral therapy, and their combination for adolescents with depression: Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS) randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2004;292:807–820 Crossref, Google ScholarUS Food and Drug Administration, Centre for Drug Research and Evaluation: Antidepressant Use in Children, Adolescents, and Adults. Available at URL: http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/antidepressants/default.htm. Accessed August 16, 2004. Google ScholarVitiello , B., Swedo, S. (2004). Antidepressant medications in children. New England Journal of Medicine, 350, 1489–1491. Crossref, Google ScholarWhittington , C.J., Kendall, T., Fonagy, P., Cottrell, D., Cotgrove, A., Boddington, E. (2004). Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in childhood depression: Systematic review of published versus unpublished data. Lancet, 363, 1341–1345. Crossref, Google Scholar Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 9Issue 4Jun 2004 Information© The Guilford PressPDF download