Word: koplewicz
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...figure out what impact [SSRIs] have on a side effect like suicidal thoughts that might only affect a couple of percent--or even less than 1%--of people in a study, you need a much, much larger study." And, says Teicher, nobody is doing those studies yet. Besides, argues Koplewicz, SSRIs are most often prescribed for kids by pediatricians or family practitioners, not by experts in child psychiatry. "We need to train these physicians properly," he says, "not ban drugs that are clearly effective." --Reported by Melissa August/Washington, Helen Gibson/London, Hilary Hylton/Austin and Sora Song/New York
...taken an antidepressant, or had taken an overdose, in the hours before their death. The British cited "suicide-related events," not actual suicide, as the reason for the ban--and there's obviously a big difference. "About 2 million teens in the U.S. have clinical depression," says Dr. Harold Koplewicz, a psychiatrist and director of the NYU Child Study Center. "But 3 million kids have suicidal thoughts. They seem to be part and parcel of the adolescent experience." And, he points out, only a fraction of either group actually attempts suicide...
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