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Fri 05 May 2010Experts clash over anti-depressant link to homicides
THE COLLEGE of Psychiatry of Ireland has said there is no evidence of a link between anti-depressants and homicide.
It said the mooted link between anti-depressants and violence did not have a basis in scientific evidence and it risked perpetuating a “false and stigmatising stereotype” that people with mental illness were violent. The college issued the statement in response to evidence given at an inquest in Wicklow last month into the death of Shane Clancy (22).
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