Psychiatric is somewhat related to mental illness that includes numerous abnormalities that related to mood, behavior, cognition, and perception. Reports said they are one of six U.S. adults that taking some sort of psychiatric medications and most of it are antidepressants. Furthermore, most had been doing as such for a year or more, as indicated by a new investigation.

According to SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, the new information was originated from an analysis of the year 2013 in Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) that accumulated date on the cost and utilization of health care in the United States. Prior on this, the government reports found out that not just more than one in 10 adults are reported taking doctors prescribed medications for 'problems with emotions, nerves or psychological wellness.' However, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration said that it did not provide on which medications that were commonly used.

Antidepressants were the most widely recognized kind of psychiatric medication in the overview, with 12 percent of grown-ups reported that they filled prescriptions for those medications. Moreover, 8.3 percent of grown-ups were prescribed drugs from a group that included narcotics, hypnotics, and anti-anxiety medications, and 1.6 percent of grown-ups were given antipsychotics drugs.

However, NBC NEWS reported that they found twice as many white people are taking those antidepressants, and less than 5 percent of Asian-Americans do. And the majority of them who take those medications are in a long-term. There is 16.7 percent of 242 million U.S. grown-ups are reported filling at least one prescription for psychiatric medications in the year 2013.

The study just glanced at the numbers and did not look at why many of the individuals are taking the medications. However, Thomas Moore of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, expressed his concern that there is a such of variety of individuals were taking a habit-forming medication, like Valium or Xanax in a long-term prescription. Earlier this year, the researchers reported the passing rate from overdoses of such anxiety medicines had been quadrupled in U.S.