{"id":80223,"date":"2025-10-06T07:43:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80223"},"modified":"2025-10-06T07:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:43:20","slug":"nation-hooked-on-happy-pills-92-million-antidepressants-handed-out-as-mental-health-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/06\/nation-hooked-on-happy-pills-92-million-antidepressants-handed-out-as-mental-health-crisis-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Nation hooked on happy pills: 92 million antidepressants handed out as mental health crisis deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1NS2Xc.img?w=534&amp;h=355&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Antidepressants | Source: GETTY\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Britons are more dependent on antidepressants than ever before &#8211; with prescriptions soaring to record levels since the Covid pandemic.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/nation-hooked-on-happy-pills-92-million-antidepressants-handed-out-as-mental-health-crisis-deepens\/ar-AA1NS84V?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=e48ccfab6efc44fb8df41f6d88053114&amp;ei=24\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Britons are more dependent on antidepressants than ever before &#8211; with prescriptions soaring to record levels since the Covid pandemic.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/anti-depressants2.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80224,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80223\/revisions\/80224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}