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Thu 10 Oct 2009Antidepressants and homicide
Madam, – The tragic events in Bray last August that resulted in the death of two young men have raised vitally important questions about the possible side-effects of antidepressants, and about the knowledge that informs the licensing of medicines in Ireland. The answers to these questions offered by Kate Holmquist in her recent column (October 10th), and endorsed in a Letter to the Editor by a number of psychiatrists (October 19th), are wrong in at least three respects.
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