All posts by Stephen Soumerai
After the FDA issued warnings about antidepressants, youth suicides rose and mental health care dropped
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Depression in young people is vastly undertreated. About two-thirds of depressed youth don’t receive any mental health care at all. Of those who do, a significant proportion rely on antidepressant medications. Since 2003, however, the U.S. Food and…