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Youth Suicide Rate Is Still High
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Suicides among U.S. adolescents dropped in 2005 after a sharp rise the previous year, but the number still remained high compared with historical trends, researchers said Tuesday.
The youth suicide rate had been falling steadily for a decade, but shot upward by 18% in 2004, boosted, according to some experts, by a government warning about antidepressants that led patients to stop taking the drugs.
The latest study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that the reaction triggered by the warning has subsided and patients are being treated with antidepressants or other therapies.
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