Hospital and doctor visits in the United States have surged by 20 percent in the past five years and the most commonly prescribed medications are antidepressants, according to statistics published on Friday.This according to Reuters, which based its numbers on stats from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Full report available here. Of course, I'm sure they are rarely prescribed to patients who don't need them, right?
Psychiatric medications, science, marketing, psychiatry in general, and occasionally clinical psychology. Questioning the role of key opinion leaders and the use of "science" to promote commercial ends rather than the needs of people with mental health concerns.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Most Prescribed Drugs
And the winner of the most prescribed category of drugs is below...
The surfeit of travesties that the Bush administration has foisted on the world make it quite plausible that every last antidepressant scrip was desperately needed..
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