“If you’ve lost your job, if you’re worried if you’ll have enough food for your kids, that will keep you up at night.”
The number of prescriptions for antidepressant, anti-anxiety and anti-insomnia medications filled per week increased 21% between Feb. 16 and March 15, 2020, according to a recent report by Express Scripts, a Cigna-owned CI, +3.66% pharmacy benefit manager. The study analyzed prescription claims filled between Jan. 19 and March 15 of this year among a sample of more than 31.
Over the past year, U.S. prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications such as Klonopin and Ativan jumped 10.2% from 8.8 million in March 2019 to 9.7 million in March 2020, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from health-research firm IQVIA. And prescriptions for antidepressants like Lexapro and Prozac rose 9.2% from 27.2 million to 29.7 million in the same window.
It’s the latest in a series of recent warnings about the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the public’s psychological health. Read more:‘We can get through this’: How to manage your mental health during the coronavirus pandemic
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