Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Feb 2020
Lyrica, a drug linked to depression and anxiety, now the top pain medication on the PBS
18 February 2020 - Lucy Pallot had never experienced the lows of depression and anxiety until she started taking pregabalin.
Lyrica is now the most prescribed pain medication on the PBS, but there are calls for nationwide monitoring after reports that it may cause depression and anxiety
"I would never even think about suicidal thoughts and that was the only thing we can pin it to, is the Lyrica. That's all," Ms Pallot, 25, from Bairnsdale in Victoria's east, said.
She was taking what is now the most commonly prescribed subscription medication for pain in Australia, pregabalin, which is sold under the brand name Lyrica.
