Antidepressant side-effects.Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration The Therapeutic Goods Administration or TGA is the regulatory body for therapeutic goods (including medicines, medical devices, gene technology, and blood products) in Australia. advisers are reviewing the warnings in some drug packets following the US Food and Drug Administration's move to place 'black box' warnings on the class of antidepressant drugs Antidepressant Drugs Definition Antidepressant drugs are medicines that relieve symptoms of depressive disorders. Purpose Depressive disorders may either be unipolar (depression alone) or bipolar (depression alternating with periods of that includes Prozac, Zoloft, Aropax and Effexor. This follows US health officials formal acknowledgment for the first time that antidepressants Antidepressants Medications prescribed to relieve major depression. Classes of antidepressants include selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (fluoxetine/Prozac, sertraline/Zoloft), tricyclics (amitriptyline/ Elavil), MAOIs (phenelzine/Nardil), and heterocyclics could trigger self-harm in a minority of children and adolescents. The FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. said that analyses of 15 clinical trials some of them years old but not previously publicly available showed a consistent link with suicidal behaviour. In Australia, 250,000 prescriptions for antidepressants were issued for children and adolescents in 2003; three-quarters were for 15 19-year-aids; 10,000 were for children aged five to nine (Sydney Morning Herald, 16/9/04, pp.3, 17; Courier Mail, 12/10/04, p.7; Australian, 18/10/04, p.3). |
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