> > Antidepressants are now the second-largest class of prescription > > drugs, their sales exceeded only by heart medications. Last year, > > according to NDCHealth, a company that tracks drug sales, 7.1 > > million Americans took antidepressants, an increase of 700,000 over > > the year before.
These statistics are hard to pin down. The link below from a NY Times article about an FDA committee, indicates 11 million such prescriptions were written for children and teenagers. It says this is almost 8% of the 2002 total, which would put the total number of prescriptions at about 140 million. I don't know how often a prescription has to be refilled but even if you figure once every three months, that's still 35 million. I've spoken to 100's of people who are or were on these drugs and quite a number didn't take them very long due to side effects, so that plays in to it too. Mental illness is a serious problem. I want a "cure." The article below indicates most kids were not cured of depression by these drugs. I want people to become happier and work daily in that direction. I do not stigmatize people with mental illness whether they are on drugs or not. I have something that I have seen help many people. When someone has taken these kinds of drugs for a long time, what I have doesn't work for them. There's a lot of info on the net. People should make informed choices. Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/8qcbj 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/
