Antidepressants and youth suicide in Australia
Concerned about the rates of youth suicide? Concerned about the rates of suicide in Australia? Is what we are doing working? I have never been able to equate the resources and energy going into suicide prevention and the ever increasing rates of suicide. Jane Marwick recently interviewed Dr Whitely, a research Fellow at the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. Dr Whitely has looked at the data and published “Antidepressant Prescribing and Suicide/Self-Harm by Young Australians - Regulatory Warnings, Contradictory Advice, and Long-Term Trends”. Health Minister Greg Hunt has asked his department to review the results of an academic study linking the increase in youth suicide with a rise in antidepressants being prescribed to Australian children.
Listen to the podcast here - boom!
We absolutely must investigate this!
Links:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00478/full
