A national expert on depression, Professor David O. Antonuccio of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, applauded this study and condemned the use of antidepressants.
“These drugs have been considered carcinogens in humans,” he said. Pointing to the paucity of research in this area, he noted, “This is the first study I have seen.”
Given that women are the primary consumers of antidepressants they are prescribed these drugs almost three times as often as men are the data revealed in the breast cancer study should logically result in psychiatrists and physicians curtailing prescriptions until further studies are done. Yet, the opposite is true, as sales of antidepressants to women continue to climb.
With baseless criteria for depression pushed by the American Psychiatric Association and high-powered advertising campaigns hawking antidepressants as the cure for the blues, it is no wonder that the National Task Force on Women and Depression warned that misdiagnosis and over prescription are severe problems.
The Selling of Depression continued...
    
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