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How do you advise families about the risks and benefits of long-term SSRI use for children who being treated at a very early age (e.g., early elementary school)?

Have any long-term studies been conducted to collect data on adults who were prescribed SSRIs throughout their childhood?
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Psychiatry · Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
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Sorry, but I usually reframe this question when I get it.

  • There is no good data as there is no way to study patients long-term. So to get an idea of what would be required, it would be to randomize a clinical population (anxiety, depression, OCD) to drug and placebo for an extended period to be abl...

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