Are Psychiatric Medications Making Us Sicker?
Submitted on October 3, 2011
By John Horgan - September 18, 2011
...[O]ver the past few decades the proportion of Americans diagnosed with mental illness has skyrocketed...This epidemic has coincided, paradoxically, with a surge in prescriptions for psychiatric drugs. Between 1985 and 2008, sales of anti-depressants and anti-psychotics multiplied almost fifty-fold, to $24.2-billion. Prescriptions for bipolar disorder and anxiety have also swelled. One in eight Americans, including children and even toddlers, is now taking a psychotropic medication.
