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Friday, October 15, 2004

Prozac isn't candy

The federal government today ordered that all anti-depressant drugs be sold with a prominent "black-box" to warn doctors that the medications increase the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior among children and adolescents, officials announced today.

The decision is a reversal of the agency's long-standing position on the drugs and could significantly alter how they are marketed, prescribed and used.

Controversy has dogged anti-depressants such as Prozac for more than a decade, but most psychiatrists have maintained that suicidal thoughts and behavior are the result of patients' psychiatric illness, not their medications.

Story.

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