Mental health experts are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to remove its most severe label – the so-called “black box warning” -- on all categories of antidepressants because it has been “highly correlated” with a more than 33 percent jump in suicide attempts over the last decade as doctors and patients who could benefit from the drugs have shied away from using them. A recent HMS study is cited. Gene Beresin, professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
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