There were 36 million prescriptions issued for antidepressant drugs in the United Kingdom in 2008, nearly one for every adult in the population, according to numbers obtained by the Liberal Democrat party.
The number is 2.1 million higher than in 2007.
Writing in the Guardian, Ed Halliwell examines the reason for this trend, noting that antidepressant prescriptions have increased more than threefold since the beginning of the 1990s, far outstripping the increase in the percentage of the population classified with a "common mental disorder." From 1993 to 2007, this number increased by only one million, going from 15.5 percent of the population to 17.6 percent.'
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Yes and they'd be better put to use with loving devotion to the sickest of the sick
ReplyDeleteof patients....them sickheads with titles that need to be securely tied to a bed in some asylum ward and the place would be packed to the rafters, sometimes named after them too....Queen Hospital or whatever.