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Article: NIH Seeks SSRI Data
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- Pharmaceutical Executive
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- February 1, 2007
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RESEARCH
Psychiatry research group seeks answers on link between sucide, antidepressants in young people.
The National Institute of Mental Health is funding a large-scale clinical study to drill down into the details of the link between antidepressants and suicide.
The outcome of the study could help guide clinical practice at a time when prescriptions have been falling because of fears, about drug risks in young people. The marker for antidepressants is valued at $12.5 billion.
Investigators in the threeyear study, which opened late last year, are members of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Trials Network (CAPTN), a group of 200 psychiatrists. About 2,420 young people between the ages ...