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Also, a 22-44% estimate of excessive drinking is a tremendous margin of error.
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Mulkern, Anne C. "Drug's Suicide Risk Prompts Warning (17 Oct 2004) the Denver Post. Section a: p. 24
While no one condones student excessive drinking as a positive societal development, the use of antidepressants for teens remains far more controversial, as does the correlation between teen suicide and prescription antidepressants. The makers of Zoloft state that adolescents commit suicide because of depression in numbers upwards of 500,000 per year -- although the difficulty of attributing suicide to a singular cause or psychological ailment, much less by the drug manufacture of an antidepressant is problematic. The statistic that 89% of doctors prescribe antidepressant drugs to adolescents for unapproved uses is from a less biased source; a Harvard psychiatrist seems more credible, although the definition of 'unapproved' or off-label is also murky. 10-11 million prescriptions were written for antidepressants for teens last year, a verifiable statistic. The article's main focus, however, is that now these drugs must carry a warning label that they have the risk of causing suicidal ideation. 2-3 out of every 100 teens prescribed the drugs has reported an increase in suicidal thoughts -- but...
In both articles, the sources of the data, both corresponding and conflicting, is often unclear. Both articles use multiple sources of data, from he NIH to the university itself, from drug manufactures to the FDA, but the credibility of these sources is difficult to estimate when the sources are not clearly bracketed in the article, or the methodologies of the study. This is one problem in gleaning data from secondary sources regarding primary research study -- the scope and methods of the study are also often unclear. While the apparent advantage to articles like these is that they seem balanced because they encapsulate different points-of-view into one article, even these articles show some signs of bias, in the case of the first regarding the Fairfield program, and the second, although less slanted, does not raise any important questions about the validity of the research correlating suicide in teens and antidepressants, although the validity of these conflicting studies…
Teen Suicide and Schools The recent spate of school shootings has focused attention on violent behavior among teenagers. However, little attention has been given to another insidious and more common form of violence among young people -- the rise in teenagers committing suicide. This paper looks at the silent epidemic of teen suicide and the role schools could play in addressing this issue. The first part of the paper is an overview
Teen Suicide Suicidal behaviors among teenagers remain a national menace. It has been found from large scale national survey data that about 20.5% teens harbored suicide thoughts within 12 months while about 7.7% attempted suicide at least once within this period (Centers for Disease Control, 1998a), suggesting that a large number of youths stand the risks of being prone to suicide. This is most applicable for young boys. A good example
Teen Suicide Suicide among teenagers is one of the great tragedies of our world today. It affects families, schools, and the community (Bostik and Everall, 2007). Interestingly, many teenagers who go through suicidal feelings overcome them, if not with ease, then at last in time. This could be an important factor in devising prevention and intervention strategies, especially for high-risk cases where the teens in question may not overcome their feelings.
As far as I am concerned, the issue of whether or not a state can legislate marriage based on its own definition of social mores was settled in Loving v. Virginia, when the Supreme Court declared that it was an Equal Protection violation to have anti-miscegenation statutes. Sex is clearly as much of an immutable characteristic as race, and it seems illogical to prevent people from entering into a
Meta-Analysis on Teen Suicide One of the leading treatments for depression are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRI's, however their effectiveness seems to be age related. In a recent study titled "Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and risk of suicide: A systematic review of observational studies," the authors assert that the effectiveness of these drugs is dependent upon the age of the patient. Young patients aged 25 or younger, had an increased
Teen Depression Stress and modern life are far more ingrained in modern culture, often causing a greater preponderance of mental disorders in almost all population dynamics. The teen population is not eliminated as a candidate for a disorder just because they may be young. In fact, mental disorders affect 1 in 5 teenagers. The prevalence of mental disorders in this population should encourage an abundance of treatment programs, but sadly, this