Nine-year trends in the morbidity of mental disorders and psychotropic drug utilization in Croatia: over-diagnosis and over-utilization?

Overall drug overuse, including psychotropic, is the Croatian reality. Therefore, in between 2000 and 2012, the interventions to control drug overspending were undertaken. The main aims of the study are: to determine the morbidity trends of mental disorders registered in family medicine (FM), the trends in psychotropic drug utilization and to identify whether the trends of utilization have any relation to the interventions.