Columnist @davidlaz has spent the last year and a half trying to get off antidepressants.
“At first I felt a bit better. Now I feel worse...I've even started thinking about going back on antidepressants, maybe for the rest of my life,” he says. https://lat.ms/2lA1MMX
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Not sure where to start with this article, but terrible use of irrelevant statistics seems as good as any
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The statistics related to use of prescription drugs?
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Yes. It’s meaningless to say Americans are more medicated now than ever before. First, grouping all medications together? Second, even if that’s true for antidepressants, so what? Have effective drugs become cheaper and more accessible? Did people used to sub illicit drugs?
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If the point is how heavily medicated U.S. society has become, then grouping prescription meds together is an efficient way of making the point
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This reminds me of anti-vaxxers who complain about the number of vaccines until you ask them which disease should people be unprotected from.
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Nice analogy. Yes the whole "overmedicated" trope is tiresome, deceptive, and lacks nuance.
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