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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America


Over the past 50 years, there has been an astonishing increase in severe mental illness in the United States. The percentage of Americans disabled by mental illness has increased fivefold since 1955, when Thorazine-remembered today as psychiatry’s first “wonder” drug-was introduced into the market. The number of Americans disabled by mental illĀ­ness has nearly doubled [...]