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09 Feb 2026
Prozac was known to increase suicide rates by around 15% when it was approved in the early 80s.

Back in the early 80s when they approved Prozac, it's admitted now. And this actually came out a long time ago, right around that time that you were working for them, but it was in a few publications, but not really publicly, widely circulated, that they knew it radically increased suicide around 15%, which is a huge increase. It was actually a suicide drug. I mean, it really encouraged it. That was one of the main effects.

09 Feb 2026
A 2004 outpatient study found that patients treated with Prozac had significantly less increase in suicidal ideation compared to placebo for those with initial suicidal ideation.

A 2004 outpatient study was done with patients suffering from minor depression who had much lower rates of suicidal ideation. These patients were split into double-blind groups, one being treated with Prozac and the other with the placebo, and they were checked up on for 12 weeks. Basically, they had those questionnaires that you get and they ask you about your suicidal ideation, rated on a scale of zero to four. And this paper analyzed the rates that people in the Prozac and placebo groups had increases of one or two points. They found that people in the placebo group had higher rates of increased suicidal ideation, but the amount was statistically insignificant. However, there was a wrinkle. There was no statistical significance in the difference in groups in terms of who had an increase of one or two points. But if you only included the people who had baseline suicidal ideation at the beginning of the study, people in the group treated with Prozac had significantly less of an increase. For patients without suicidal ideation before the study, 5.1% of the placebo group had an increase of two points, whereas the Prozac group was 3.5%. That's not that big of a difference. For patients who had initial suicidal ideation, 40.9% of the placebo group had increases of two points compared to 12.5% with the Prozac group.