Opinion: New antidepressant study isn't cause for alarm

A friend drew my attention to a recent study showing that antidepressants increase your risk of dying. Unsurprisingly, many media outlets picked up the story and ran with it, with varying degrees of alarmism.
The study was a meta-analysis of 17 trials. Its final conclusion was that antidepressants appeared to increase mortality by 33 per cent and cardiac events by 14 per cent. It also drew some other rather surprising conclusions. While antidepressants were linked to increased mortality in the g