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Title: CDC: Antidepressant use skyrockets 400% in past 20 years
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URL Source: http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health ... ed-in-past-20-years/50826442/1
Published: Oct 30, 2011
Author: USATODAY
Post Date: 2011-10-30 20:22:44 by Artisan
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Use of antidepressant drugs has soared nearly 400% since 1988, making the medication the most frequently used by people ages 18-44, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. Eleven percent of Americans ages 12 years and older took antidepressants during the 2005-08 study period, the authors write. They add that though the majority of antidepressants were taken to treat depression, the drugs also can be used for anxiety disorders and other conditions. The data are from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, which included information from 12,637 participants about prescription-drug use, antidepressant use, length of use, severity of depressive symptoms and contact with a health professional. Mental-health professionals not associated with the survey cited several reasons as possible explanations for the spike: •The struggling economy and the record number of layoffs and home foreclosures. "These drugs can be very helpful for people who need them,'' says Elaine Ducharme, a psychologist and public educator in Connecticut for the American Psychological Association. "People should expect to be depressed after a layoff. They should not be put on a drug, though, unless they have an acute problem." •Ad campaigns waged by pharmaceutical companies citing benefits of the drugs. •Families who might be reimbursed by health insurance companies for a prescription but may delay getting therapy from a mental-health professional because of the cost of treatment. In fact, less than one-third of Americans taking one antidepressant and less than one-half of those taking multiple antidepressants have seen a mental-health professional in the past year, the report shows. "Unfortunately, some families are looking for a quick fix, but a pill is never going to get to the root of the problem," says David Palmiter, a psychologist and author of Working Parents, Thriving Families: 10 Strategies That Make a Difference. Ducharme agrees. "That is the thing that bothers me the most," she says. "These drugs can be dangerous, and there needs to be follow-up care." The survey also found that nearly one in four women ages 40 to 59 are taking antidepressants. Women are more likely to take antidepressants; however, among those taking antidepressants, men were more likely than women to have seen a mental-health professional in the past year. The survey found that about one in 25 teens take the medication.
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#1. To: Artisan (#0)
And don't forget: •Under the table kickbacks to Doctors for prescribing the DRUGS. Not can be, ARE dangerous. As well there is no known test validating the use of these drugs. It is all based on subjective OPINION - NOT Science. This article is depressing. Imagine the "side effects" if those "happy pills" were no longer so readily available to the masses. Makes Ab shudder.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
Here's the antidote to the malfunctioning idiots (99.9%) who don't need a pill, they just to be yelled at until they get their s*** together: X, we have one in four women on the happy pills. I think this would play out more like this: I meant the army with condos. Is green the only color this outfit comes in? lol " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
That movie was the closest that Goldie Hawn ever came to marriage AND she is a JAP, so where does that leave the 98% of the other non-JAP women with various neuroses and pill-addictions?? :p
You had to ask, didn't you? lol!! " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
•Ad campaigns waged by pharmaceutical companies citing benefits of the drugs.
"That is the thing that bothers me the most," she says. "These drugs can be dangerous, ...
#2. To: Artisan (#0)
#3. To: abraxas (#2)
Imagine the "side effects" if those "happy pills" were no longer so readily available
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#4. To: X-15 (#3)
#5. To: abraxas (#4)
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#6. To: X-15 (#5)
so where does that leave the 98% of the other non-JAP women with various neuroses and pill-addictions?? :p
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