Antidepressant use skyrockets among adolescents: Aussie study
Girls as young as 10 were among those with the highest rates of initiation of the drugs, researchers say
First-time antidepressant use among adolescent females rose dramatically during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Australian researchers say.
Their analysis of PBS data found a 15.6% increase in antidepressant initiation between March 2020 and February 2021, corresponding to an excess of more than 5000 adolescent females being prescribed antidepressants for the first time.
