Correlation between suicide rate and antidepressant use in Slovenia

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 279-285

  Oravecz, Robert ^a   Czigler, Balázs ^b   Leskošek, Franc ^b  

^a Psychiatric Hospital Ormoz   (Slovenia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antidepressives; Depression; Slovenia; SSRI; Suicide; TCA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037484123     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811110301555     Document Type: Article

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