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The rates of GP prescribing of antidepressants increased during the financial crisis at a faster rate that at any other point in the past 16 years, a new study has found.
The report from the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation compared the number of items dispensed across England in 1998 to the number dispensed in 2014, noting a 165% rise from 15 million to 40 million.
However, despite spanning a 16-year period, almost half of the overall increase in antidepressant prescribing occurred in the four years between the 2008 financial crisis and 2012.
Since the recession hit, the annual rise in prescriptions was around 8.5% per year compared to 6.7% in the years between 1998 and 2008.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20006819.article#.U4cGO_ldWAg
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The report from the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation compared the number of items dispensed across England in 1998 to the number dispensed in 2014, noting a 165% rise from 15 million to 40 million.
However, despite spanning a 16-year period, almost half of the overall increase in antidepressant prescribing occurred in the four years between the 2008 financial crisis and 2012.
Since the recession hit, the annual rise in prescriptions was around 8.5% per year compared to 6.7% in the years between 1998 and 2008.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20006819.article#.U4cGO_ldWAg
(free registration)