Generation Rx
The book of the month for December is Generation Rx by Greg Critser. This book discusses how prescription drugs have come to control American citizens' lives.
This book discusses how the government and drug companies have been working together to create "generation rx." This mentality leads people to believe that the only way they will feel better is to take prescription medications. The off-set of this is the side effects that these drugs have. One popular class of medication that was mentioned in the book is antidepressants. The prescribing of antidepressants such as Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac, etc. hasn't always given the desired results physicians had hoped for. These drugs have caused people to become even more depressed and even a few have committed suicide. From reading this book, my eyes have been opened even wider to the over-prescribing and overuse of prescription medication people take just because they think they will feel better due to these drugs because their doctors......
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