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Volume 69, Issue 131,
Monday, April 19, 2004
OPINION
A
killer combination?
Do antidepressants cause suicide,
the same tragedy they are prescribed to prevent? Since the new generation
of antidepressants became popular in the 1990s, critics have worried that
they pose some risk of actually causing suicide. Fourteen years ago, "a
Harvard psychiatrist wrote a paper suggesting that some of his patients
became acutely suicidal after taking Prozac," recalls The New York Times.
"But a 1991 scientific advisory panel concluded that there was no convincing
evidence."
Freedom and
safety are hard to balance
When atrocities happen in our nation,
our first reaction is to look for someone to blame. Next, we desperately
demand some insurance against the event occurring again. But inevitably,
the "insurance" that we beg for, with the tears fresh in our eyes, will
taste bitter in our mouths within months.
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