On AlterNet: antidepressants

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "antidepressants"

The Great Antidepressant Hypocrisy

Maia Szalavitz, The Fix. November 30, 2011.

America’s ambivalent relationship with drugs and medication pushes us to ignore critical differences between drugs, while failing to appreciate useful similarities.

Do Anti-Depressants Work? It Very Well Might Be the Placebo That Does the Trick

Irving Kirsch, Ph.D., Basic Books. March 2, 2011.

Psychologist Irving Kirsch unveils the ineffectiveness of antidepressants and suggests there's more to the placebo effect than once imagined.

Soldiers Increasingly Take to Pill Popping to Cope with Fighting Bush's Wars

Jan Frel, June 12, 2008.

12% of combat troops in Iraq and 17% of those in Afghanistan are taking prescription antidepressants or sleeping pills.

Paxil Babies: The Dangers of Antidepressants

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. June 6, 2008.

Mothers suffering from depression are increasingly pushed into taking pills, putting them and their infants at great risk.

Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation

Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. April 17, 2008.

Author Charles Barber discusses Americans' unrealistic notions about happiness. We've medicalized a lot of life issues that aren't mental illnesses.

Are Antidepressants Faith-Based Treatment?

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. February 28, 2008.

Bias in drug studies may mask the mind's role in overcoming depression.

Rethinking Antidepressants and Youth Suicide

Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. September 25, 2007.

Is the confirmed rise in suicide rates among young people, particularly girls aged 10-14, linked to a decrease in prescription antidepressants?

Are Plastic Surgeons America's Top Therapists?

Meta Wagner, PopMatters. November 20, 2006.

There's a quiet revolution happening in self-improvement: rather than addressing our lives from the inside-out, we're now addressing them from the outside-in.