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Tue 05 May 2004300,000 patients on anti-depressantsMore than one in every six medical card holders in the State is on anti-depressants, according to new figures from the Department of Health.There are over a million medical card holders in the State and the figures indicate some 200,000 of them were prescribed anti-depressants in 2002.