{"id":23387,"date":"2019-06-03T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T04:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23387"},"modified":"2019-06-03T14:55:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T04:55:35","slug":"antidepressants-use-among-young-australians-has-soared-so-has-the-suicide-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23387","title":{"rendered":"Antidepressants use among young Australians has soared, so has the suicide rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mother_And_Daughter_Hug-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mother_And_Daughter_Hug.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mother_And_Daughter_Hug-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mother_And_Daughter_Hug-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An explosion in the use of antidepressants has been linked to the tragic rise in the number of youth suicides in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, experts in the field \u2014 and the nation\u2019s leading suicide prevention organisations \u2014 stand accused of getting the management of depression \u201chorribly wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suicides among young Australians have leapt by nearly 40 per cent since 2009 at the same time as the use of antidepressants has surged by 60 per cent in this age group, research shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 430,000 Australians aged under 27 (up from 149,538 in 2008) are now using antidepressants including over 100,000 under the age of 17 (up from 29,773 in 2008), Health Department figures show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/lifestyle\/health\/antidepressants-use-among-young-australians-has-soared-so-has-the-suicide-rate\/news-story\/79d0d4357595d4d2e081b1f289fb8b40?fbclid=IwAR0f7qoUdH1_7FFRNyOt_sl3duNNcLUoWy06YCqQZy10CcxnBeUSzP9R5hE\">https:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/lifestyle\/health\/antidepressants-use-among-young-australians-has-soared-so-has-the-suicide-rate\/news-story\/79d0d4357595d4d2e081b1f289fb8b40?fbclid=IwAR0f7qoUdH1_7FFRNyOt_sl3duNNcLUoWy06YCqQZy10CcxnBeUSzP9R5hE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion in the use of antidepressants has been linked to the tragic rise in the number of youth suicides in Australia. As a result, experts in the field \u2014 and the nation\u2019s leading suicide prevention organisations \u2014 stand accused of getting the management of depression \u201chorribly wrong\u201d. Suicides among young Australians have leapt by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23387\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Antidepressants use among young Australians has soared, so has the suicide rate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23389,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387\/revisions\/23389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}