Nearly 7,500 Clare residents take anxiety pills.
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The Irish Examiner has published a study into the use of anti-depressants, which found that 2.3 million prescriptions were written for these drugs in 2012.
The research finds 7.2% of people here were taking these drugs – a figure broadly in line with the national average – while the total cost for patients here on the top five most frequently prescribed anti-anxiety drugs is over 820 thousand euro.
10 per cent of people in Limerick have been prescribed the pills – the highest number in Ireland.
