Depression and Antidepressants: A Nordic Perspective

摘要

The most common form of treatment of depression is antidepressant medication. They are currently ranked ninth among prescription drugs with global sales well over $20 billion (16). Overall, antidepressant prescriptions have risen, but this has been offset by a number of patent expiries and generic alternatives (17). As Figure ​Figure11 shows, sales of antidepressants in the Nordic countries have increased up to fourfold since the middle of the 90s (18, 19).