Fourfold Leap in Use of Pills to Fight Depression Among Scots

The Scotsman › January 29, 2008

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PRESCRIPTIONS for antidepressants have increased more than fourfold in Scotland in less than 15 years, figures have revealed.

A report by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (QIS) found that in 1992-3 there were 19 daily doses of antidepressants handed out by doctors per 1,000 of the population. But by 2005-6, this had increased to almost 85 doses per 1,000 people.

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Fourfold Leap in Use of Pills to Fight Depression Among Scots

Experts said the figures did not necessarily mean Scots were becoming more depressed, but that the use of antidepressants was now more widely...

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