Word: depressionitis
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What we're seeing now is some renewed optimism, and it could develop into something, but it's still too early to know. In the Great Depression we had a recovery after '33-it wasn't a full recovery, but it was a recovery. So it's entirely plausible that...
In the '90s, Americans grew fond of the idea that you can fix depression simply by taking a pill - most famously fluoxetine (better known as Prozac), though fluoxetine is just one of at least seven selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that have been prescribed to treat hundreds of millions of...
But in the past few years, researchers have challenged the effectiveness of Prozac and other SSRIs in several studies. For instance, a review published in the Journal of Affective Disorders in February attributed 68% of the benefit from antidepressants to the placebo effect. Likewise, a paper published in PLoS Medicine...
Now a major new study suggests that both critics and proponents might be right about SSRIs: the drugs can work, but they appear to work best for only a subset of depressed patients - those with a limited range of psychological problems. People whose depression is compounded with, say, substance abuse...
Reefer Madness! Kudos to Joe Klein for his piece on legalizing marijuana [April 13]. The tax revenues a legal industry could generate - not just from pot but from hemp products as well - could solve major economic issues. I may have spent much of my high school years in a doobie...