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Antidepressants and Suicide Risk
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A reported suicide does not mean the drug caused it, only that a possible link was suspected and reported.
The weight of psychiatric adverse eventsThe study's broadest finding concerns the share of psychiatric reactions within the total pool of reported adverse events.
Completed suicide, attempt, and ideation: Why the categories matterThe study analyzed five separate outcomes: completed suicide, suicidal behavior, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, and suspected suicide.
Interpretation is further limited because nearly 3,900 duloxetine reports do not record the final outcome.
Sertraline led, accounting for 21.8% of all suicide attempts reported for that drug, followed by fluoxetine (19.3%) and escitalopram (14.7%).