Antidepressant medication prevents suicide in depression

Papadopoulos, Fotios C. (författare): Uppsala universitet,Psykiatri, Akademiska sjukhuset,University Uppsala Hospital, Sweden

Ahlner, Johan (författare): Linköpings universitet,Klinisk farmakologi,Hälsouniversitetet

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2010-11-05
2010
Engelska.
Ingår i: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. - : Wiley. - 0001-690X .- 1600-0447. ; 122:6, s. 454-460

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Objective: Ecological studies have demonstrated a substantial decrease in suicide in parallel with an increasing use of antidepressants. To investigate on the individual level the hypothesis that antidepressant medication was a causal factor. Method: Data on the toxicological detection of antidepressants in 18 922 suicides in Sweden 1992-2003 were linked to registers of psychiatric hospitalization as well as registers with sociodemographic data. Results: The probability for the toxicological detection of an antidepressant was lowest in the non-suicide controls, higher in suicides, and even higher in suicides that had been psychiatric inpatients but excluding those who had been in-patients for the treatment of depression. Conclusion: The finding that in-patient care for depression did not increase the probability of the detection of antidepressants in suicides is difficult to explain other than by the assumption that a substantial number of depressed individuals were saved from suicide by postdischarge treatment with antidepressant medication.

Av författaren/redakt...: Isacsson, G.; Reutfors, J.; Papadopoulos, Fo ...; Ösby, U.; Ahlner, Johan

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