antidepressants

1. Drugs that prevent or relieve the symptoms of depression. Various psychological disorders are treated with antidepressants.

Although there are many antidepressant drugs now in use, the best known is Prozac ®.

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Kennedy has spoken frequently of his suspicion that prescribed antidepressants trigger violence in their users, most recently after last month’s shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.

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The defence claims Ms Lee gave also took antidepressants when she gave them to her children, but got the dose wrong – and when she woke up, her children were dead.

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In a prerecorded message played during the special, Huger said she entered a private recovery program to address her “taking antidepressants and drinking.”

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Sammi said she had tried numerous antidepressants over the years, but found her mental health improved the most after using the weight loss drug, which she bought from an online pharmacy.

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Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., laid into the top man in U.S. public health on Thursday after he suggested that antidepressants might be a root cause of a recent mass shooting in Minneapolis.

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