--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > <snip> > > > For example, one-third of the adult popu- > > > lation of America and many other countries is on a > > > constant prescription of antidepressants. > > > > I'd love to see a source for this "statistic." > > I strongly suspect it's bogus. > > Originally quoted at a public talk by Dr. > Helen Caldicott, referencing a study by > the organization Médicins sans frontieres.
Is it on the Web? Can you give me a URL? When was the talk given, or when was the study done? > Their figures were based on number of pre- > scriptions written, which is easily trace- > able and researched in the medical data- > bases. If you want a more definitive > source, find it yourself. I want to know what the actual claim was and exactly how the study was done. I wouldn't have > believed it myself until my contracting > work in the Midwest, when the subject came > up once and it turned out that I was the > only person on my team *not* taking > antidepressants. And that, to you, constitutes proof? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
