This increase in prescribing correlates with results from a population prevalence study which showed an increasing trend in use of antidepressants among both men and women. 42 Further research is necessary into the type of antidepressants, both dispensed and implicated in drug poisoning deaths, as well as their impact on suicide deaths by drug poisoning.
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Trends in drug poisoning deaths, by sex, in Ireland: a repeated cross-sectional study from 2004 to 2017.
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