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There's an FDA-mandated warning label for every drug. The current label for Finasteride [1] includes depression only as a "postmarketing experience", which is based on the same data you're reading here (self reports), and is not reliable for determining causality. [2]

There is no current listing for suicide, suicidal ideation, etc.

[1] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2012/02...

[2] "Because these reactions are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to drug exposure"



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