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According to a new statistical report released recently, the use of antidepressants in the United States has increased steadily between 1996 and 2005, with no signs of deceleration. Most likely, the experts behind the new study say, it will continue to increase among those older than six years of age in the future as well, while at the same time remaining relatively low among racial and ethnic minorities. Details of the investigation appear in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, a journal published by the JAMA/Archives. “Several factors may have contributed to this trend, including a broadening in concepts of need for mental health treatment, campaigns to promote mental health care and growing public acceptance of mental health treatments. In parallel with growth in mental health service usage, psychotropic medications have become increasingly prominent in treatment,†the authors write in the background section of their new article. The work was conduct!
ed by experts at the Columbia University Medical Center, the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Scientists Mark Olfson, MD, MPH and Steven C. Marcus, PhD analyzed data collected from the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys, collected for 1996 and 2005, and sponsored by ...
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