The Medicalization of Unhappiness. / Ronald W. Dworkin.
by Dworkin, Ronald W; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 31Health. Publisher: Public Interest, 2001ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Antidepressants | Depression -- Treatment. -- Mental | Happiness | Mental illness -- Classification | Mental illness -- Diagnosis | Mood (Psychology) | NeurotransmittersDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The use of psychotropic medication in depressed patients has increased in the United States by more than 40 percent over the last decade, from 32 million office visits resulting in a drug prescription to over 45 million....Are more Americans clinically depressed now than in the past, or has medical science started to treat the far more common experience of 'everyday unhappiness' with medication, thereby increasing the number of drug prescriptions?" (PUBLIC INTEREST) This article examines the widespread usage of mood enhancing medications, discusses diagnostic guidelines for various degrees of depression and explains how antidepressants and related drugs affect one's behavior and outlook.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: The Medicalization of Unhappiness, Summer 2001; pp. 85-99.
"The use of psychotropic medication in depressed patients has increased in the United States by more than 40 percent over the last decade, from 32 million office visits resulting in a drug prescription to over 45 million....Are more Americans clinically depressed now than in the past, or has medical science started to treat the far more common experience of 'everyday unhappiness' with medication, thereby increasing the number of drug prescriptions?" (PUBLIC INTEREST) This article examines the widespread usage of mood enhancing medications, discusses diagnostic guidelines for various degrees of depression and explains how antidepressants and related drugs affect one's behavior and outlook.
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