Word: prozac
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Brings angst to the everyday. And all the everyday needs is more angst. Watching J. Crew "models" trying to get laid is enough to make the average College Joe turn to Prozac...
...cover of Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel's 1994 memoir of her struggle with depression, the author, then 26, posed strung out and exposing her midriff. The book sold well and established Wurtzel as a hipster social critic even though it dealt entirely with the subject of herself. Now, looking more self-possessed, Wurtzel graces the cover of her second book topless and giving the finger. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (Doubleday; 434 pages; $23.95) is, more or less, a meandering lamentation on the fate of irrepressible women, those too angry, too tormented, too selfish--those who, say, would prefer...
Breggin mentioned the tremendous popularity of Prozac and Ritalin as an example of this trend and said that any criticism of the drugs has been very quiet...
...example, Breggin cited the first product liability case against pharmaceutical company Eli Lily, which produces Prozac, in which Prozac was blamed for a murder-suicide tragedy in Kentucky. Breggin said that although the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Eli Lily had rigged the trial, the case received little media coverage...
...fact, Breggin said, documents revealed Eli Lily found an increase in suicides among participants in its clinical trials of Prozac...