Fwd: [SSRI-Research] UK to Ban Antidepressants for Children - Paper

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[sSRI-Research] UK to Ban Antidepressants for Children - Paper

 

-- And what happens when children turn '18'...

does the suicidal ideation just stop? And those liars, Eli Lilly...

we KNOW/have legal testimony... that Prozac induces

suicidality... they are running the world.

 

 

UK to Ban Antidepressants for Children - Paper

 

http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & u=/nm/20031210/

hl_nm/uk_children_dc

 

Wed Dec 10,12:12 PM ET

 

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The UK government is set to ban the

prescription of antidepressant drugs for children because of

evidence they can cause them to become suicidal, The Guardian

newspaper reported on Wednesday.

 

A spokesman for the Department of Health declined to comment

on the report but said the government's watchdog on drug safety

- the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

(MHRA) -- would be making a statement later on Wednesday.

 

The Guardian reported that after looking at details of clinical

trials carried out by drug companies in the 1990s, the MHRA has

told doctors not to prescribe all but one of the antidepressants

known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).

 

The exception is Prozac, which is licensed for use in depressed

children in the United States.

 

The MHRA will be advising doctors not to prescribe Cipralex, a

second-generation antidepressant manufactured by Danish

group Lundbeck A/S (LUN.CO), its predecessor drug Cipramil,

as well as Lustral, manufactured by Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE -

news) and Faverin.

 

Earlier this year, the UK authorities said that Wyeth's (NYSE:WYE

- news) anti-depression drug Effexor should not be taken by

children. Effexor is not licensed for use in people under 18 but it

was nevertheless prescribed to an estimated 3,000 British

youngsters.

 

The government also advised in June that GlaxoSmithKline Plc's

(GSK.L) anti-depression drug Seroxat should be not prescribed

to children.

 

 

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