The FDA decided that anti-depressants were causing some teen suicides.
So they required a big black suicide warning - for teenagers only - on the packages.
Teen prescriptions went down. Teen suicides went up.
Let's see. The major cause of suicide is depression. So you scare people away from anti-depressants...
Who could ever have guessed
Things would work out this way?
You know what gets me depressed?
The FDA.
Thanks very much for John for pointing out this story. See my blog post, FDA, Definitely Not "First, Do No Harm", for my take on this issue. And see the links at the end of that post for more on the FDA.
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