Table 4.

Age-standardised mortality rates for suicide and antidepressant-related poisoning deaths and prescriptions per 100 population in England

Year	Age-standardised mortality rates per million population			Prescriptions per 100 population
	Suicide	TCAs	SSRIs	All	TCAs	SSRIs
1993	98.2	8.6	0.2	22.4	17.5	4.6
1994	94.8	8.7	0.1	24.5	17.9	6.2
1995	95.6	8.7	0.4	27.4	18.3	8.7
1996	90.6	9.7	0.4	30.9	18.8	11.8
1997	92.8	9.4	0.6	34.7	19.3	15.1
1998	95.7	8.8	0.7	37.9	19.7	17.9
1999	95.1	8.0	1.1	41.2	19.7	21.2
2000	90.2	6.9	1.3	44.9	19.7	25.0
2001	84.9	5.8	1.8	49.3	19.8	29.3
2002	84.3	5.3	1.8	53.2	19.9	33.1

Note: Directly standardised to the European Standard Population