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The highest-profile issue here is antidepressants because, very sadly, of recent tragedies that have been very much in the news. I shall talk about antidepressants, where it seems the best evidence is available. Over the past 12 years, antidepressant prescriptions alone have almost doubled in England, from 47 million to 89 million last year. Nearly one in five people over 18—adults—in England is now prescribed them annually and, sadly, nearly 450,000 children and young people, almost 4,000 of them under 10, were prescribed antidepressants in 2022-23.