Many parents have said yes. David Healy, a Scottish psychiatrist, prompted by those stories, did a small experiment in which undepressed persons took anti-depressants. About 10% of them started having suicidal thoughts. Drug companies and the University of Toronto (where Healy had been offered a job) reacted very badly to this information, as Healy describes in Let Them Eat Prozac. An article in the latest issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry by a biostatistician named David Leon on the FDA oversight panel describes why he voted to extend a warning about this from children (< 18 years old) to young adults (18-24 years old). This was the main data:










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