Top antidepressant drugs dispensed in England by item number 2022

This statistic displays the leading ten antidepressant drugs dispensed in England, in 2022, by number of prescription items. In that year, there were approximately 21.7 million items of the antidepressant sertraline hydrochloride dispensed.

Leading 10 antidepressant drugs dispensed in England in 2022, by number of items

Characteristic	Number of items
Sertraline hydrochloride	21,745,810
Amitriptyline hydrochloride	15,226,816
Citalopram hydrobromide	13,937,102
Mirtazapine	11,776,025
Fluoxetine hydrochloride	7,289,558
Venlafaxine	5,459,572
Duloxetine hydrochloride	3,502,340
Escitalopram	1,657,575
Paroxetine hydrochloride	1,272,495
Trazodone hydrochloride	1,238,983

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Release date

June 2023

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

Antidepressant drugs include medicines for depressive illness, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and panic attacks.
The statistic shows the number of prescription items dispensed. 'Items' is the number of times a product appears on a prescription form. Prescription forms include both paper prescriptions and electronic messages.

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