Antidepressants and youth: Healing or harmful?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2138-2151

  Markowitz, Sara ^a,b   Cuellar, Alison ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Suicides; United States; Youth

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; IMIPRAMINE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

DRUG PRESCRIBING; HEALTH RISK; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHILD; DISCLOSURE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OFFICE VISITS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34147193835     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.02.025     Document Type: Article

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