Antidepressants Overuse Debated

Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 13:40 in Health & Medicine

Antidepressant prescriptions in the UK increased by 9.6% in 2011, to 46 million prescriptions. Since that is for a total of only 63 million people in the last census, a lot of whom are children, the antidepressant prescription total is quite high. But does that reflect over-medication or appropriate treatment for better diagnoses?  read more

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