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...Army has by far the most troops deployed to the war zones - about 20,000 troops in Afghanistan and Iraq were on such medications last fall. The Army estimates that authorized drug use splits roughly fifty-fifty between troops taking antidepressants - largely the class of drugs that includes Prozac and Zoloft - and those taking prescription sleeping pills like Ambien...
...killed themselves last year, including 36 in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army said on May 29. That's the highest toll since it started keeping such records in 1980. Nearly 40% of Army suicide victims in 2006 and 2007 took psychotropic drugs - overwhelmingly, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like Prozac and Zoloft. While the Army cites failed relationships as the primary cause, some outside experts sense a link between suicides and prescription-drug use - though there is also no way of knowing how many suicide attempts the antidepressants may have prevented by improving a soldier's spirits. "The high percentage...
...Happiness,” “The Happiness Hypothesis,” and Harvard’s own Tal Ben-Shahar’s “Happier” are signs that its never been trendier to be happy in our Prozac nation. But Gilbert and his colleagues are quick to emphasize the difference between self-help texts and his work, which aims to inform readers rather than promising five magic steps to a better self...
...Ricci is not asked to do much but coast on her dark, elfin star quality, which she manages nicely. In other adult roles, like the ones in Prozac Nation and Monster, she's worked hard to shrug off the ethereal girlishness of her Mermaids and Addams Family days. As for Johansson, the suspicion lingers that there was always a voluptuous woman waiting to burst out of her pre-teen roles. The few extra pounds she carries, in an era when curves are denounced as baby fat, give her the anachronistic, grown-up glamour of a Rita Hayworth. She photographs...
...psychiatric medications to solve even the most benign and normal of emotional ills. He isn’t the first to make this claim. Since the 1993 publication of Peter Kramer’s “Listening to Prozac”—which stated, deceptively, that Prozac could not only make depressed people feel better, but that it could make people feel “better than well!”—dozens of writers, doctor and layperson alike, have jumped on the “overmedication” bandwagon. Americans, they declare, have been...