How to Use SSRI in a Sentence
SSRI
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Some panelists also called for stronger warnings on SSRI drug labels.
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Aria Bendix,
NBC news,
24 Feb. 2026
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Feuer has had patients and their families thank her for prescribing an SSRI.
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Rhitu Chatterjee,
NPR,
7 May 2026
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Multiple public-health researchers and clinicians have added that prior studies did not establish a causal link between SSRI use and mass shootings.
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Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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In the case of some drugs like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants, the medications may change the levels of neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, in the brain, which can affect dreams and nightmares.
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Stacey Colino,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
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Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary has also suggested that SSRI use among pregnant women could lead to poor birth outcomes.
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Kff Health News,
Oc Register,
23 Feb. 2026
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Tuesday’s report states that HHS will assemble a working group of federal officials to evaluate SSRI prescribing patterns, specifically among children.
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Sarah Owermohle,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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Most were taking either a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) or a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI).
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Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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What’s more concerning are the results for tricyclic antidepressants, which are older as they were first discovered in the 1950s and ’60s, Alpert said — the first SSRI, fluoxetine, was developed in the 1970s and approved for the US by the FDA in 1987.
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Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
14 May 2026
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