Selling Depression
Submitted on June 17, 2011
By MARTHA ROSENBERG - Counterpunch Weekend Edition
...[T]hree things dried up the depression gravy train for the drug industry. Blockbusters went off patent and generics took off, anti-depressants were linked with gory and unpredictable violence...and -- they didn't even work, according to medical articles...That's when the drug industry began debuting the concept of "treatment resistant depression." It wasn't that their drugs didn't work...Your first expensive and dangerous drug needed to be coupled with more expensive and dangerous drugs because...one drug alone wasn't doing the trick!
