Prescriptions for mental health medications hiked during COVID-19

Antidepressant prescriptions climbed 8.7 percent since 2019, but some age groups fronted more of the burden, according to The New York Times.

In 2017, 313,665,918 prescriptions were written for antidepressants in the U.S. Four years later, the number rose to 337,054,544, according to pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts. The rate of change is a steady increase, but the data is skewed toward prescriptions for teenagers, which surged 41 percent during that period.