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Old 01-13-2013, 12:46 PM   #9
Jonathan
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: northeast us
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Not buying this.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db76.htm
"From 1988–1994 through 2005–2008, the rate of antidepressant use in the United States among all ages increased nearly 400%"

http://www.who.int/mental_health/media/unitstates.pdf
Relatively flat. Not close to a 400% increase at any rate.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9192540

"Overall, there were no statistically meaningful improvements in the level of aggressive behavior, as measured on a modified version of the Overt Aggression Scale, over the course of these patients' SSRI trials."

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Or am I looking at the wrong sort of meds? It was SSRI that you wanted to blame, right?
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