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Are you sure those statistics are right? Do you have a source for them? They just sound quite surprising to me (although I'm from the UK rather than the USA).
by Ellipsis753 13y ago
Are you sure those statistics are right?
Do you have a source for them?
They just sound quite surprising to me (although I'm from the UK rather than the USA).
- ijk 13y ago"Eleven percent of Americans aged 12 years and over take antidepressant medication." from CDC/NCHS Data Brief: "Antidepressant Use in Persons Aged 12 and Over: United States, 2005–2008": http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db76.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db76.htm "Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half take two, Mayo Clinic and Olmsted Medical Center researchers say." from Mayo Clinic, "Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Take Prescription Drugs, Mayo Clinic, Olmsted Medical Center Find": http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2013-rst/7543.html http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2013-rst/7543.html
- Ellipsis753 13y agoThank you. It's great to have sources and they seem very good. I would never have guessed that the number of people taking antidepressant drugs would be so high.