Current information has revealed that overdoses involving antidepressants have been climbing every year from 1999 till 2022 within the US.
The evaluation of CDC overdose information was launched final month, because it takes the group over a yr to course of overdose information; 2022 is the newest yr with full overdose information obtainable.
Antidepressants had been an underlying reason behind demise in 5,863 overdoses that yr – a quantity on par with heroin-involved overdoses, which killed 5,871 individuals in the identical yr. These characterize a small however vital proportion of climbing overdose deaths – over 100,000 complete in 2022, largely from fentanyl.
Annual studies from the Nationwide Poison Knowledge System, which compiles information from the US’s 55 poison facilities, additionally present that poisonings involving antidepressants have risen persistently every year the group launched an annual report, from 2012 to 2022. Whereas the overwhelming majority of deadly occasions with the treatment contain different substances as properly, 56 individuals died of antidepressant publicity alone in 2022 in keeping with the newest report – the very best quantity on document.
These numbers have been climbing for so long as information have been obtainable and it’s arduous to say precisely why. There’s info lacking from the info, together with the exact combination of drugs concerned in every demise, which makes it unclear what number of are the results of suicide.
