They claim that four million Argentines consume antidepressants

Four million Argentines consume antidepressants due to anxiety and sadness, according to a report prepared by the Argentine Union of Pharmacists and Biochemists.

Seven months after the suicide of the model Rocío Gancedo, a former Big Brother participant who was thrown into the void from the balcony of her apartment in Las Cañitas neighborhood in Buenos Aires, the court case who investigates the fact is stalled parents and suspected professional negligence for the prescription of psychiatric drugs.

In this context, a report published this Sunday by Diario Popular reveals that there are 4 million Argentines who consume antidepressants, due to anxiety and depression.

Marcelo Peretta, Doctor of Pharmacy and Biochemistry and Secretary General of the Argentine Union of Pharmaceutical and Biochemical Products (SAFYB), said that "the brutal death of Rocío Gancedo, who was suffering from chronic depression and was taking antidepressants , far from being forgotten by the time, make us think about the psychiatric drugs, that we consume mbadively and lightly, whose effects are diffuse and the risks more and more obvious, since the suicides are more frequent than It is not imagined. "

A report provided by the expert indicates that in 2001, the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry published that 0.34% of users of the drug" paroxetine "had suicidal attempts, recommending the control and continued observation of all treated patients, to detect signs of worsening of the clinical picture and the possibility of unusual behavioral changes.

While some patients improve with the use of antidepressants at low doses and for a short time, in 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that 4% of children and adolescents treated with antidepressants are at risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors (NA)