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Caution over SSRIs in young people ‘should be re-evaluated’

09 October 2013

UK researchers have called for advice to avoid SSRIs for treatment of depression in young people to be re-evaluated, arguing that the increase in suicide risk with the initiation of treatment may be down to the underlying severity of the patient’s depression

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