TY  - BOOK
N2  - Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere more than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, more than any other class of medication; that year, the United States accounted for 66% of the global market. Here, psychiatrist Barber provides a context for this disturbing phenomenon. He explores the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first create the need for a drug and then rush to fill it, and he reveals the increasing pressure Americans are under to medicate themselves. Most importantly, he argues that without an industry to promote them, non-pharmaceutical approaches that could have the potential to help millions are tragically overlooked by a nation that sees drugs as an instant cure for all emotional difficulties.--From publisher description.
AB  - Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere more than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, more than any other class of medication; that year, the United States accounted for 66% of the global market. Here, psychiatrist Barber provides a context for this disturbing phenomenon. He explores the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first create the need for a drug and then rush to fill it, and he reveals the increasing pressure Americans are under to medicate themselves. Most importantly, he argues that without an industry to promote them, non-pharmaceutical approaches that could have the potential to help millions are tragically overlooked by a nation that sees drugs as an instant cure for all emotional difficulties.--From publisher description.
T1  - Comfortably numb :how psychiatry is medicating a nation /
DA  - c2008.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Barber, Charles,
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - RC483
CN  - RC483
PB  - Pantheon Books,
PP  - New York :
PY  - c2008.
ID  - 320641
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Psychotropic drugs
KW  - Psychotropic drugs industry
KW  - Biological psychiatry
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Deceptive advertising
SN  - 9780375423994
SN  - 0375423990
TI  - Comfortably numb :how psychiatry is medicating a nation /
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