Abstract
It has been claimed that the advent of modern antidepressants has reduced the suicide rate. To examine the correlation between the suicide rate and the prescription of antidepressants. A dynamic regression was employed to analyze a 73-month-long, monthly time series between 2010 and 2016 in Hungary. The independent variable was the Defined Daily Dose value for the number of antidepressant (AD) prescriptions filled each month. The models failed to show a significant association between the prescription of antidepressants and age- and sex-specific monthly suicide rates. The prescription of antidepressants in Hungary has had no impact on suicide rates.
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