The purpose of this study was to compare adverse events, postoperative opioid prescribing patterns, healthcare utilization, and secondary ACLR surgery rates of patients undergoing primary ACLR with a preoperative antidepressant prescription (ADP) against a propensity matched group with no preoperative antidepressant prescription (NADP) using TriNetX Diamond Network. Patients undergoing primary ACLR between ages 18 and 35 were queried from the database using ICD-10/CPT codes. ADP patients were propensity matched in a 1:1 ratio to NADP patients based on 11 patient characteristics. Post-operative rates of adverse events, emergency department (ED) visits, in-patient hospitalizations, out-patient services, physical therapy evaluations, postoperative opioid prescriptions, and secondary ACLR were compared at various time points. 3736 ADP patients with an average age of 21.4 +/- 4.5 years undergoing primary ACLR were propensity matched to NADP patients. A significantly greater percentage of ADP patients received opioid prescriptions at 2 weeks (ADP: 21%, NADP 11.3%, OR: 2.08), 6 weeks (ADP: 25.5%, NADP 13.9%, OR: 2.13), 3 months (ADP: 27.6%, NADP: 15.6%, OR: 2.07), 6 months (ADP: 30.5%, NADP 17.2%, OR: 2.1), and 1 year (ADP: 35.3%, NADP: 20.2%, OR: 2.16) postoperatively (P < 0.0001 for each time point). ADP patients had higher rates of ED visits (ADP: 9.7%, NADP: 7.1%, P<.0001, OR: 1.39) and outpatient appointments (ADP: 28.3%, NADP: 21.8%) P<.0001, OR: 1.42) at 3 months postoperatively. Secondary surgery rates at 1 and 2 years were non-significant (P = 0.381 and P = 0.062, respectively). Following ACLR, ADP patients had a significant increase in post-operative opioid prescriptions at all time points, and utilized more ED resources and outpatient services compared with NADP patients at 3 months post-operatively. 30-day post-operative adverse events and both 1- and 2-year secondary ACL surgery rates demonstrated no significant differences between the groups. Level III, cohort study.