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Antidepressants and overdose toxicity

✍ Scribed by J. A. Henry

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Weight: 218 KB
Volume: 9
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6222
DOI: 10.1002/hup.470090708

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✦ Synopsis

Antidepressants relieve depression, but many are highly toxic if taken in overdose, causing over 250 deaths in Britain each year. Ninety-seven per cent of these deaths are due to the older tricyclic drugs. Prescribing antidepressant drugs with lower toxicity in overdose could prevent many of these deaths, and is thus the most immediately available form of suicide prevention, KEY WORDS-Antidepressants, overdose.

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