Antidepressant Dispensing to Adolescents and Young Adults Surges During Pandemic

February 26, 2024

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Presented by Health Lab

While a growing number of young people ages 12 to 25 were receiving antidepressants before the pandemic, the antidepressant dispensing rate rose nearly 64% faster after March 2020. Kao Ping Chua, M.D., Ph.D., a pediatrician and researcher at the University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center, discusses the drivers of the increase.

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