Antidepressants in America: New Study

(August 5, 2009)  Antidepressant use in the U.S. doubled from 1996 to 2005, according to a new report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. During that decade — the last period in which data were available — the percentage of Americans using antidepressants surged from less than 6% to more than 10%, or more than 27 million people. … National Patterns in Antidepressant Medication Treatment, Dr. Mark Olfson, [Columbia University Medical Center and] New York State Psychiatric Institute; Steven Marcus, University of Pennsylvania, Archives of General Psychiatry.  

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