A 15-year study of Swedish women published this month revealed that contrary to the assumption that antidepressants would reduce suicides, the drugs actually increased them. The study concluded: “An increasingly larger proportion of young women who later committed suicide, had in the last few years been treated with antidepressants, prior to and at the time of the suicide. The previous assumptions that treatment with antidepressants would lead to a drastic reduction in suicide rates, are incorrect for the population of young women. On the contrary, it was found that an increasing tendency of completed suicides follow the increased prescription of antidepressants.”
The study was published in the International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine.
