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Also, a 22-44% estimate of excessive drinking is a tremendous margin of error.

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Mulkern, Anne C. "Drug's Suicide Risk Prompts Warning (17 Oct 2004) the Denver Post. Section a: p. 24

While no one condones student excessive drinking as a positive societal development, the use of antidepressants for teens remains far more controversial, as does the correlation between teen suicide and prescription antidepressants. The makers of Zoloft state that adolescents commit suicide because of depression in numbers upwards of 500,000 per year -- although the difficulty of attributing suicide to a singular cause or psychological ailment, much less by the drug manufacture of an antidepressant is problematic. The statistic that 89% of doctors prescribe antidepressant drugs to adolescents for unapproved uses is from a less biased source; a Harvard psychiatrist seems more credible, although the definition of 'unapproved' or off-label is also murky. 10-11 million prescriptions were written for antidepressants for teens last year, a verifiable statistic. The article's main focus, however, is that now these drugs must carry a warning label that they have the risk of causing suicidal ideation. 2-3 out of every 100 teens prescribed the drugs has reported an increase in suicidal thoughts -- but does the population of teens using the drugs already have a high suicide risk, one might ask? The reporter does not raise this question at length, although overall the tone of the article seems balanced, albeit rather unquestioning of the sources.

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Both articles show the problematic nature of using secondary sources. In both articles, the sources of the data, both corresponding and conflicting, is often unclear. Both articles use multiple sources of data, from he NIH to the university itself, from drug manufactures to the FDA, but the credibility of these sources is difficult to estimate when the sources are not clearly bracketed in the article, or the methodologies of the study. This is one problem in gleaning data from secondary sources regarding primary research study -- the scope and methods of the study are also often unclear. While the apparent advantage to articles like these is that they seem balanced because they encapsulate different points-of-view into one article, even these articles show some signs of bias, in the case of the first regarding the Fairfield program, and the second, although less slanted, does not raise any important questions about the validity of the research correlating suicide in teens and….....

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