The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed that makers of all antidepressant medications update the black box warning on their antidepressants labels to include warnings of increased risks of suicidal thinking and behavior, known as suicidality, in young adults ages 18 to 24 during initial treatment.
The following website lists a list of antidepressants medications
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/UCM096273
How often if ever do you read the labels of your medications whether it’s an over-the-counter drug or a prescription drug? If you don’t read the labels don’t feel alone most people just read the dosage on the bottles and some don’t even do that the doctor might say take one pill once a day and that’s what they do regardless of what the bottle says. The problem is more and more people are taking medications for some reason or another, and not even looking at what the side effects are much less what can happen if you mix them. Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in Americans; there are many risk factors that can put a person at risk for suicide. Among the many risk factors the number one is depression and mental illness. Interestingly a lot of the victims of suicide are already being medically treated.
I was doing my research and I was shocked at some of the FDA's information about some drugs increasing sucidal thoughts
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