Reverse Rising Rate of Antidepressant Prescriptions, Urge Experts

Psychotherapist Dr. James Davies warned that ’the over medicalisation of our everyday lives has helped fuel over-prescribing.’

A bottle of Effexor antidepressant pills in Miami, Fla., on March 23, 2004. FDA asked makers of popular antidepressants to add or strengthen suicide-related warnings on their labels as well as the possibility of worsening depression especially at the beginning of treatment or when the doses are increased or decreased. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A group of experts and MPs have called for the government to commit to a reversal in the rising rate of prescribing of antidepressants.

In an article published in the British Medical Journal on Tuesday, a wide range of health experts and MPs have warned that intervention is needed as the growth of antidepressants is resulting in huge exposure to unnecessary harm.