Antidepressant combo increases crash risk for seniors

Posted Nov 24, 2011 12:42:11 PM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

It’s known that taking certain medications and getting behind the wheel can lead to trouble.

A new study finds seniors who take antidepressants combined with another psycho-tropic medication are at increased risk of being at fault in a crash.

The researchers used information from Ontario transportation and health-care databases from January 2000 to October 2007.

The study is in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

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