In five years, 120,000 new patients taking antidepressants: “Doctors are too quick to prescribe them as a stopgap”

In five years, 120,000 new patients have been added who take antidepressants. This is evident from figures that N-VA requested from Minister of Health Frank Vandenbroucke (Vooruit). Why is the use of antidepressants so on the rise? And no, that is not necessarily because more Belgians have depression.

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