Paper questions adult antidepressant use.

The article cites a paper on the use of antidepressants by adults, written by Joanna Moncrieff and Irving Kirsch, published in the "British Medical Journal." According to the authors of the paper, prescribing of antidepressants has increased 253 percent over the last ten years. They suggest that review data from the U.S. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence indicate that SSRIs show no clinically meaningful advantage over placebo, consistent with some recent metaanalyses. Furthermore, they assert that claims that antidepressants are more effective for treating severe conditions lack supporting evidence.