Reverse Rising Rate of Antidepressant Prescriptions, Urge Experts

Published on December 5, 2023

A group of experts and MPs have called for the government to commit to a reversal in the rising rate of prescribing of antidepressants. In an article published in the British Medical Journal on Tuesday, a wide range of health experts and MPs have warned that intervention is needed as the growth of antidepressants is resulting in huge exposure to unnecessary harm. Some of the co-authors of the article include the secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence Dr. James Davies, Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry Joanna Moncrieff and Conservative MP Danny Kruger. The article said that over the past decade, antidepressant prescriptions have almost doubled in England, rising from 47.3 million in 2011 to 85.6 million in 2022/2023....

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