Because antidepressants are prescription-only medications, you must talk to your doctor before stopping them. If the symptoms and occurrence of at least one episode of depression exists ...
Last year, figures obtained by BBC Scotland showed more than 5,500 under-18s in Scotland were prescribed antidepressants. The Royal College of Psychiatrists said the drugs were an important option.
In 2016 over 70 million antidepressants were prescribed across the UK, more than twice the figure a decade ago. Concerns are regularly raised in the press that these drugs might be over-prescribed.
groups of medicines: hypnotics and anxiolytics (for insomnia and anxiety treatment); antidepressants; drugs for dementia; drugs used in psychoses and related disorders; and central nervous system ...
and whether or not they were on antidepressants. They monitored them over the next 10 years, while accounting for other factors like age, diseases, and whether they smoked or took drugs ...