The most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S. are not for pain management, cholesterol lowering, heartburn or hypertension. They're for depression. Last year doctors wrote $232.7 million prescriptions for antidepressants. That's an increase of 25 million prescriptions since 2003 and translates into an estimated 30 million patients in the United States who spent $12 billion on antidepressants in 2007. With numbers like these, a person might make these assumptions: Antidepressants are effective treatments for depression There are few, if any, ...
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