Last weeks issue of Time Magazine, with cover date 14/4/06, has an article The year in medicine A to Z. One of the entries is DEPRESSION Researchers still don't understand why severely depressed teenagers are more likely than adults to commit suicide while taking antidepressant drugs like Paxil, but a major study out of UCLA concluded that the drugs do more good than harm. Starting in the early 1960s, the annual U.S. suicide rate held fairly steady at 12 to 14 instances per 100,000--until 1988, when the first of a new generation of antidepressants, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, was introduced. The suicide rate has been falling ever since, to around 10 per 100,000. The investigators estimate that nearly 34,000 lives have been saved. Since much of the discussion has been focused on the fact that antidepressants don't work, how would you explain this result? Riki Koenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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