Depressed patients don’t take their pills
Of the 300,000 patients each year who get a prescription from their doctor for anti-depressants, 25% do not collect the pills from the chemist or never start taking them, reports Trouw on Wednesday.
The figures come from research carried out by Utrecht University researcher Katja van Geffen. Van Geffen says many other patients stop taking the anti-depressants within two weeks.
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