In a recent publication, Elena Arroyo and a group of Spanish researchers present their conclusions on 'Did psychotropic drug consumption increase during the 2008 financial crisis?'. They used the microdata from the face-to-face cross-sectional population-based Spanish National Health Survey (SNHS) for two periods: 2006–2007 and 2011–2012, considering both gender and employment situation.

Their conclusions are: "While the year of the financial crisis is not associated with the consumption of antidepressants nor sedatives, it has widened the gap in consumption differences between men and...