“Research into reports of people taking their own life showed drugs can be the motive and also give them the means”
This report by Sarah Knapton has been published in The Telegraph. It begins:
“Antidepressants raise the risk of suicide while also giving people the means to kill themselves, scientists have warned, after discovering thousands of inquests linked to the drugs.
Psychologists at the University of East London (UEL) analysed media reports of nearly 8,000 coroners’ inquests in England and Wales between 2003 and 2020, in which antidepressants were mentioned.
They found the drugs were linked to 2,718 cases of hanging and 2,329 overdoses, of which 933 people had overdosed on antidepressants themselves.
A further 2,083 had been struck by a train, tube, lorry or other vehicle, had jumped or fallen to their death, drowned, shot themselves, or been involved in a fire or electrocution.
Experts said the figures were likely to be just the tip of the iceberg, because many suicides and inquests are not fully reported in the media.
Study author Dr John Read, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, said: ‘Not only do antidepressants not reduce suicidality, but they also actually increase it for many, and for some they provide the mechanism for killing oneself.’ …”
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