Word: prozac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest trend in LA is anti-depressant jewelry, according to W, the glossy version of Women's Wear Daily. Always willing to go that extra mile for their metaphysical well-being, Californians are adoming themselves with gold and silver-plated replicas of Prozac and Zoloft tablets...
...Billboard's album charts, shows that this Bay Area band is capable of creating credible, sometimes beautiful, rock 'n' roll. The Crows' moody, muted music is designed for the young and lost, as it charts a path of wanderlust and world- weariness that roams somewhere between Kerouac and Prozac. Singer- songwriter Adam Duritz writes about people who are damaged and drifting, their lives fashionably fraying around them like jeans torn out at the knees. "Step out the front door like a ghost," he murmurs on Round Here, "Into the fog where no one notices/ The contrast of white on white...
...theories are truly as oozy as his critics maintain, then what is to keep all the therapies indebted to them from slowly sinking into oblivion as well? Hypothetically, nothing, though few expect or want that event to occur. Surprisingly, Peter Kramer, author of the current best seller Listening to Prozac, comes to the defense of talking cures and their founder: "Even Freudian analysts don't hold themselves 100% to Freud. Psychotherapy is like one of those branching trees, where each of the branches legitimately claims a common ancestry, namely Freud, but none of the branches are sitting at the root...
...cashiers. If you've ever wondered where all the patients went after "de-institutionalization," look no further than ABP: the seating area looks like the set of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Along with the bins of milk, cream and sugar, they should put out capsules of Prozac. Getting a seat is quite a battle; there are more fights in here (some of them featuring chairs wielded as weapons) than in the Caesar's Palace. The whole place has a vaguely dirty air--I stopped going when UHS ran out of tine tests...
...CHILDBEARING age are treated for depression, no one is sure if it is safe for them to take their needed medication during pregnancy. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association provides a mixed answer. Researchers followed women who became pregnant while receiving therapy -- either with Prozac, a relatively new and extremely popular drug, or tricyclic antidepressants, an older class of medication. Women in both groups bore the same small risk of having children with serious birth defects -- which was no higher than it is for women in the general population. But both groups of women...