Overmedicated America?

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
In 2006, the United States accounted for 66 percent of the global antidepressant market. Are Americans overmedicated? and have pharmaceutical firms convinced many of us to use drugs we may not need? Charles Barber's new book is Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation.

Weigh in: Do you think Americans are overmedicated? Have public perceptions of psychopharmaceuticals changed in the last couple of decades?

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