The most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S. are not for pain management, cholesterol lowering, heartburn or hypertension.
They're for depression.
Last year doctors wrote $232.7 million prescriptions for antidepressants. That's an increase of 25 million prescriptions since 2003 and translates into an estimated 30 million patients in the United States who spent $12 billion on antidepressants in 2007.
With numbers like these, a person might make these assumptions:
Antidepressants are effective treatments for depression
There are few, if any, ...
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Easy! Just follow Dr. Steinberg's recent recommendations.
Dr. Daniel Steinberg, author of "The Cholesterol Wars", has just issued new recommendations proposing that "aggressive intervention to lower cholesterol levels as early as childhood is the best approach available today to reducing the incidence of coronary heart disease."
In a review article published in the August 5, 2008 issue of the American Heart Association journal Circulation, Steinberg and his colleagues state that "with a large body of evidence proving ...
Today's article is the sixth in an ongoing series on antidepressants and depression. It's long, so you might want to print it out or go grab a cup of tea. If you are visiting the blog for the first time, or you haven't had a chance to read the previous articles, you might find it helpful to do so before diving into this one.
The treatment of depression with drugs is based on the enormous ...
In today's article we'll discuss how to prevent heart disease without drugs. If you haven't already read Part 1 of this series, which examined the problems with statin drugs, and Part 2, which debunks the myth that cholesterol causes heart disease, you might want to do that before reading this article.
Last week I mentioned the INTERHEART study, which looked at the relationship between heart disease and lifestyle in 52 countries around the world. ...
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