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Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides

Mad in America

I t should be relatively easy in almost all cases to decide if a person has committed suicide or tried to commit suicide. But as with so much else in psychiatry, this can be negotiated, obscured, and influenced by commercial conflicts of interest. 1 Randomised trials Many suicides and suicide attempts have been omitted from published reports of the randomised trials, and the omissions are biased, favouring drugs over placebo. 1-3 Meta-analyses of suicidal events based on published reports will t