Contrary to the popular belief, authors of a new study now suggest that antidepressant drugs do more good than harm to children and teenagers. There have been many instances when parents blamed antidepressants for the suicides of their depressed children and many studies showed that drugs might promote suicidal thoughts.

It prompted the Food and Drug Administration to send out a warning to doctors and also in 2004, the FDA called for "black box" warning labels on antidepressants. However, many experts believe that after the warning to curb the use of antidepressants, there was a sudden surge in U.S. youth suicides that was blamed on reluctance to try antidepressants

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday warned consumers to be extra cautious while purchasing sleep aids, antidepressants and other drugs over the Internet as there are chances they were shipped a powerful anti-psychotic, which has let many victims to the hospitals.

Revealing the truth about the online scams, federal health officials warned that many consumers were actually taking the schizophrenia drug, haloperidol, after being shipped what they thought were a variety of different pills, including Ambien, a sleep aid, and the anti-anxiety medications Xanax and Ativan. Officials have also revealed instances of fraud in the antidepressant Lexapro

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first generic version of Forest Laboratories Inc.'s antidepressant Lexapro.

According to Reuters, the FDA cleared an application from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. to sell a generic copycat of the oral drug known as escitalopram