Girl in Facebook Live Hanging was Prescribed Antidepressant

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From the Miami Herald: Naika Venant, a 14-year-old girl who died by suicide this past January, had been prescribed Zoloft, an antidepressant with a black box warning indicating increased suicide risk in children and adolescents. Her dosage of the drug was doubled just 45 days before her death.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. “During the next 18 months, however, Naika’s doctors reached for the prescription pad again and again, increasing the dose of an ADHD medication”

    OMG I know the hell ride the ADHD drugs can put you through, they get you high then it wears off and crash down anxiety depression, high again tomorrow for a few hours then crash down over and over day in and out.

    We have a thread on MIA “Memorial day for those killed by psychiatry” https://www.madinamerica.com/forums/topic/memorial-day-for-those-killed-by-psychiatry/

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