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After Fatal School Shootings, Antidepressant Use Surges Among Student Survivors [latimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 12/26/198:55 AM

By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, December 16, 2019 The children who experience a school shooting but live to see their parents and friends again are often called survivors. But by at least one measure of mental health, they too are among a gunman’s victims, new research finds. In the two years after a fatal school shooting, the rate at which antidepressants were prescribed to children and teens rose by 21% within a tight ring around the affected school. The increase in antidepressants...

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