{"id":4,"date":"2007-04-17T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/17\/anti-depressant-use-by-minors\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T15:21:02","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T15:21:02","slug":"anti-depressant-use-by-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2007\/04\/17\/4\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-depressant use by minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information on the number of prescriptions written to\u00a0 minors for anti-depressants can be found in Health, United States 2006 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hus\/hus06.pdf\" title=\"Health United States 2006\">Table 92.<\/a>\u00a0(located on page 331 of a very large .pdf file).<\/p>\n<p>Briefly in the period 1995-96 there were 1.9 prescriptions written for anti-depressants for every 100 persons aged 18 and under. By 2003-04 that number was 8.0.\u00a0 While both boys and girls received anti-depressants at the same rate (1.9) in 1995-96, in the 2003-04 period boys received 9.1 prescriptions per 100 persons and girls received 6.8.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we did not collect this data before 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information on the number of prescriptions written to\u00a0 minors for anti-depressants can be found in Health, United States 2006 at Table 92.\u00a0(located on page 331 of a very large .pdf file). Briefly in the period 1995-96 there were 1.9 prescriptions written for anti-depressants for every 100 persons aged 18 and under. By 2003-04 that number<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62222,62288,53700,63683,63685,63690],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}