Association Between Antidepressant Prescribing and Suicide in Australia, 1991-2000: Trend Analysis

Association Between Antidepressant Prescribing and Suicide in Australia, 1991-2000: Trend Analysis Wayne D Hall, Andrea Mant, Philip B Mitchell, Valerie A Rendle, Ian B Hickie, Peter McManus British Medical Journalhttps://www.bmj.com Introduction In many developed countries the number of prescriptions for antidepressants increased steeply during the 1990s, after the introduction of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). In some countries the increased rate of prescribing coincided with fall in the suicide rate. Research has been carried out to test the hypothesis that increased antidepressant prescribing was partially responsible for this decline. In Sweden between 1991 and 1996 antidepressant . . .