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Table 4 Age-standardised mortality rates for suicide and antidepressant-related poisoning deaths and prescriptions per 100 population in England

From: Association between mortality from suicide in England and antidepressant prescribing: an ecological study

Year

Age-standardised mortality rates per million population

Prescriptions per 100 population

 

Suicide

TCAs

SSRIs

All

TCAs

SSRIs

1993

98.2

8.6

0.2

22.4

17.5

4.6

1994

94.8

8.7

0.1

24.5

17.9

6.2

1995

95.6

8.7

0.4

27.4

18.3

8.7

1996

90.6

9.7

0.4

30.9

18.8

11.8

1997

92.8

9.4

0.6

34.7

19.3

15.1

1998

95.7

8.8

0.7

37.9

19.7

17.9

1999

95.1

8.0

1.1

41.2

19.7

21.2

2000

90.2

6.9

1.3

44.9

19.7

25.0

2001

84.9

5.8

1.8

49.3

19.8

29.3

2002

84.3

5.3

1.8

53.2

19.9

33.1

  1. Note: Directly standardised to the European Standard Population