Antidepressants = suicide.

 The NY Times reports that the U.S. suicide rate has surged to a 30-year high. A snippet: "particularly among women and middle-age Americans, according to federal data released Friday. The suicide rate for women ages 45-64 increased by 63 percent from 1994 to 2014, while it jumped 43 percent for men in the same age range, according to a National Center for Health Statistics study. The overall suicide rate climbed 24 percent during the period of the study." Hmm.


A 2011 article from the Harvard Medical Journal noted that over a similar period anti-depressant use surged.


The age group and the stupid amount of prescribed "feel good" pills are killing off American adults. It isn't social media or isolation that is killing people, it's self interested doctors earning their pharma bonuses and trips by telling their patients to take a pill to fix their blues. What they should be telling them is to get of the couch, skip the fast food, and for God's sake take a walk now and then.


Nobody can be surprised by this connection. There are warnings with those drugs. They tell users and doctors that suicidal thoughts may result from taking the pills. It's okay though, "they have to put those warnings with the pills", I've heard my doctor say about Cipro, a tendon obliterating antibiotic with a "black label" warning. But he downside risk is too dramatic to be minimized by its probability. All it takes is one in a billion if you're the "one".


The connection is there to see.


The actual side affect warnings should read: "Ingesting this drug occasionally leads to suicide. Not suicidal thoughts, but actual put a gun to your head and pull the trigger bloody-mess suicide."