Analysis Continues of Fallout From FDA's SSRI Warning

From Psychiatry Online:

The “black box” warning on antidepressants appears to have affected the likelihood of making an outpatient visit for depression, but not of receiving an antidepressant prescription following a diagnosis of depression.

The number of children's outpatient office visits for depression and visits during which an antidepressant was prescribed dropped in the wake of the 2003 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory linking an increased risk of suicidality with antidepressant use among pediatric patients.

Yet children diagnosed with depression appeared no less likely to be prescribed antidepressants than before the warning, according to an analysis appearing in the July Psychiatric Services.

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