Increase in diagnosis of depressive disorders contributes to the increase in antidepressant use in adolescents.

Svetlana Ondrasova SkurtveitJ G BramnessV HjellvikI HartzR NesvågL J HaugeM Handal

Published in: Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica (2018)

The only issue studied that could explain increasing AD use in girls was increasing incidence of depressive disorders. Most adolescents with incident diagnosis of depressive disorders were not treated with ADs.

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