Blaming Anti-Depressants Leads to Rise in Suicide Rate?

[Dancing David]

I just read on Yahoo and heard on NPR this am that the suicide rate for preteens and teens went up drastically in the 2004/2005 statistics. It went up 38% for 10-14 y.o. females.

There are a number of possibilities, first they noted that suffocation has risen in method of termination and that it is more accessible that gunshot (the prior leading method). But this also follows the black box warning on antidepressants by the FDA.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_he_me/teen_suicides;_ylt=AlvU.OzQEm2w86621A3I4ZdvzwcF

[headscratcher4]

Its a plot by the pharmacetical companies to drive up suicides so that they can sell more pills that have the potential for leading to suicide. Obviously.

[ponderingturtle]

I just read on Yahoo and heard on NPR this am that the suicide rate for preteens and teens went up drastically in the 2004/2005 statistics. It went up 38% for 10-14 y.o. females.

There are a number of possibilities, first they noted that suffocation has risen in method of termination and that it is more accessible that gunshot (the prior leading method). But this also follows the black box warning on antidepressants by the FDA.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_he_me/teen_suicides;_ylt=AlvU.OzQEm2w86621A3I4ZdvzwcF

Hmm I wonder what effect Katrina had on that, as localy I have heard figures that in New Orleans area the suicide rate is 72 times the national average.

[Dancing David]

Hmm I wonder what effect Katrina had on that, as localy I have heard figures that in New Orleans area the suicide rate is 72 times the national average.

There will always be confounding factors which is why the demographic has to be extensive. The real problem is that suicide is under reported.