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Byline: Pat Wingert
Raising kids with depression is a confusing, often terrifying business for parents. It got more so last week when a Food and Drug Administration panel advised adding "black box" warnings to antidepressants because they cause 2 to 3 percent of kids to become suicidal. But despite the scare headlines, experts say the message parents and physicians should be hearing is not to stop the drugs. It's far riskier to not treat depressed kids, about 15 percent of whom commit suicide. Instead, says ...