Medicine: depressed kids and SSRIs

Most everybody has seen headlines about Paxil and depressed kids, and the fact that there's a shot that the chance of a kid on an SSRI committing suicide is increased. Well, this piece from NPR looks at the other side of the argument: if your kid is depressed, and he doesn't get treatment, he might wind up blowing his brains out anyway. I know I was pretty close more than once.

Don't get me wrong, shame on GSK for suppressing their data. But let's not hate the drug companies for making good drugs, but just for marketing them in ways that often do more harm than good.