Suicide trends and antidepressants
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Suicide trends and antidepressants.
The suicide rate in Sweden decreased by 25% during the 1990s. After analysing trends for the years 1978–96, I proposed that the cause might be the concurrent increased use of antidepressants, and data from Norway, Denmark, Finland, Hungary and the USA supported this hypothesis (Isacsson, 2000). However, naturalistic studies do not allow definite conclusions, which is why the importance of testi...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.190.1.79