Antidepressant prescribing increases by 35% in six years
Prescriptions of antidepressants rose by 5.1% in 2021/2022, the sixth consecutive annual increase.
The number of antidepressant items prescribed over the past six years has increased by 34.8%, from 61.9 million items in 2015/2016 to 83.4 million items in 2021/2022
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The number of antidepressants prescribed in England rose by 5.1% in 2021/2022 compared with the previous year — the sixth annual increase in a row.
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