Dr. John Mann: New York Times Opinion Pages

The changes in treatment and attitude brought on by Prozac prompted two colliding points of view. One was that antidepressants were overprescribed and people were encouraged to turn to a pill to solve all their problems. Another viewpoint was that major depression was one of the most debilitating illnesses in the world and was mostly untreated or undertreated, and even though we were now prescribing a lot of antidepressants there were still too many people with moderate to severe depression that remained untreated.
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