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...with blood I shouldn't have spilt. After sitting there for what seemed like hours (which apparently was only minutes), I had the revelation that this was not the path." At least, not yet. He sought help and said he went on antidepressants (a friend later said they were Prozac). He wrote of drinking alcohol and blacking out. He claimed to use marijuana...
...this tradition that Blur subverts in their music and artwork: their albums are sketches of British life, celebrating all of it, from Prozac-popping country house dwellers to rudely awakened pigeon-feeders, and for all of life’s pleasantry and dark side. This all runs conceptual loops around Oasis’s retreads of pieces about love, and it all occurs under a penumbra of sonic innovation—the range of styles the band touches on is incredible, incorporating the best parts of guitar-pop, two-tone ska, and the early shoegazing sound that characterized their debut...
...generate tiny electrical currents in their brain? "You have to remember the brain is both an electrical and a chemical organ," says Dr. Mark George, a psychiatrist at the Medical University of South Carolina who is investigating magnetic stimulation as a treatment for depression for the NIMH. Drugs like Prozac and Zoloft address chemical imbalances, but that's only part of the problem. Electroconvulsive therapy, despite its troubling side effects, is still one of the most effective treatments available for severe, unrelenting depression...
...been around for almost a century, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has endured its share of rough patches. But "rough patch" hardly begins to describe all the bad news that has battered the agency over the past few months, from the possible suicide risks with antidepressants like Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft to the cardiac risks of pain-killers like Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra. Americans depend on the FDA to carefully weigh the benefits and risks of all drugs before approving them, but the agency has had trouble lately shaking the growing perception, justified or not, that...
...actions, though the FDA has not shown antidepressants to be the precise cause. According to Medco Health Solutions, the last year has seen a 10 percent reduction in antidepressant prescriptions for patients under 18, in large part due to the FDA’s action. Amongst all antidepressants, only Prozac has been approved by the FDA to treat pediatric depression. Zoloft, though it has not specifically been approved to treat depression in children, has been approved by the FDA to treat pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder. However, an FDA-approved drug can be used to treat any population, including children, even...