Kids & Antidepressants: Benefits Outweigh Risks

A study in the April 17th Journal of the American Medical Association offers some good news for families of children fighting depression. It's estimated that 1 out of every 10 kids suffers from some form of depression and researchers have been weighing the benefits and risks of prescribing antidepressants to them. Now a new study shows that the drugs appear to have a lower risk of suicidal thoughts than previously reported.

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[MrTheGrabber]

Sounds like advertising to me. Anti-depressants are as effective as placebos. How can they take out meds for a disease whose biological existence has never been proven?

[riverlioness]

What about the children under 10 placed on psychiatric medication? Shame on society.

[civilrights4all]

Yes, it is true, the benefits outweigh the risks for the DRUG companies, who can afford to lose a few class action lawsuits that pay pennies to the victims, because the benefits of earning half a billion dollars in psychiatric drug revenues outweigh the risk and cost of those measly lawsuits they can easily pay for.

I haven't met a single psychiatric patient being drugged who doesn't have at least one extremely disabling side effect disease.

[walisardar]

Is this kinda commercial for these drugs?

There are studies now that mere exercise is more helpful and that anti depressants are as effective as placebos.