Doctors must stop prescribing antidepressants to patients with mild mental health problems to curb the country’s overreliance on pills, experts said today.
Antidepressant prescriptions have almost doubled in England over the last decade with 85.6million dished out in the last year alone.
Experts blame ‘overmedicalising’ issues like loneliness for the steep rise, with unnecessary drugs putting patients at risk of harm while failing to tackle the root causes of problems.
Instead, lifestyle changes alongside greater use of social prescribing, such