03 Jun
Prozac Over the Counter?
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Time
Antidepressants are the most frequently prescribed class of drugs in the U.S., making up about 5% of all prescription medication recorded in outpatient files, according to 2005 figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But if the demand for antidepressants is so high and the pills are so readily dispensed (with the side effects now reasonably well known), would life be easier if antidepressants were just available at the drug store? TIME poses the question to Josephine Johnston, associate for law and bioethics at the nonpartisan research institute, the Hastings Center.
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