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" Britain is becoming increasingly reliant on antidepressants, the Liberal Democrat leader is due to warn today (Friday). Nick Clegg is concerned by the scale of the nation&amp;#039;s mental health problem and believes politicians have been ignoring the issue. Mr Clegg is set to speak at the Guardian Public Services Summit in St Albans, at which he will describe Britain as &amp;#039;the true Prozac nation&amp;#039; and claim that the trend for antidepressant use has &amp;#039;gone too far&amp;#039;. &amp;#039;That is not to say that medication has no role to play in tackling mental health problems - of course it does. &amp;#039;But it should not be the default option prescribed by doctors because of a lack of access to psychological therapies,&amp;#039; he will insist. The party leader is expected to announce his party&amp;#039;s commitment to a maximum 13-week waiting time for treatment for mental illness, and a policy that the NHS should pay for private treatment if it misses this target. \u00A9 Adfero Ltd "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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