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    After fatal school shootings, antidepressant use spikes among student survivors

    by Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Dec 16, 2019 4 minutes

    The children who experience a school shooting but live to see their parents and friends again are often called survivors. But by at least one measure of mental health, they too are among a gunman's victims, new research finds.

    In the two years after a fatal school shooting, the rate at which antidepressants were prescribed to children and teens rose by 21% within a tight ring around the affected school.

    The increase in antidepressants prescribed to kids grew more - to nearly 25% - three years after a school shooting, suggesting that survivors' depression lingers long after the incident has begun to fade from a community's memory.

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