Health and Human Services has ordered studies at the National Institutes of Health to investigate whether SSRIs and other psychiatric medications could contribute to violent behavior. The research will focus on drugs that carry black box warnings for suicidal and homicidal ideation. The initiative follows a deadly church shooting in Minneapolis and questions about whether medications used during gender transition might be relevant. Officials indicated that these medications cannot be excluded as potential contributors and that targeted research will evaluate side-effect profiles, potential causal links, and implications for prevention strategies and clinical guidance.
We're still trying to get a lot of answers to a ton of questions, but the one thing is clear: You are dealing with a person who is trans, who was transitioning. Are you going to be examining it all, some of the drugs that are used in order to make that transition happening to see if it plays a role? Because we also know there was a trans shooter in the Tennessee situation.
We are doing those kind of studies now at NIH. We're launching studies on potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence. Many of them, on had black box warnings that warn of suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation. So we can't exclude those as a culprit and those are the kind of studies we're doing.
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