Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use | NLM

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Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use

12/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Stanford University. Published: 12/2019. This 39-page pager examines the impacts of local exposure to school shootings on an important indicator of youth mental health: the use of prescription antidepressants. It analyzes the effects of 44 school shootings on youth antidepressant use in a difference-in-difference framework, and finds that local exposure to fatal school shootings increases youth antidepressant use by 21.4 percent in the following two years. (PDF)