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Comment
. 2020 Apr 30:11:363.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00363. eCollection 2020.

Commentary: Duty to Warn: Antidepressant Black Box Suicidality Warning is Empirically Justified

Wayne K Goodman  1 , Eric A Storch  1
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Commentary: Duty to Warn: Antidepressant Black Box Suicidality Warning is Empirically Justified

Wayne K Goodman et al. Front Psychiatry. .
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Keywords: Black Box; activation syndrome; antidepressants; behavioral toxicity; suicidality.

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