But experts say that as medications like Prozac become increasingly sophisticated and more commonly prescribed, both doctors and patients need to be better educated on their proper use.
Today, more than 40 percent of women between the ages of 18-25 meet the criteria for a psychiatric diagnosis. I first read “Prozac Nation” in 2005. I was 21 and had just returned to Harvard ...
There has been a new antidepressant on the market every two or three years. In 1987, the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac) was introduced. It had been tested by the FDA and found to be an ...
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of the best-selling 1994 memoir Prozac Nation which detailed her struggles with depression and addiction, has died aged 52. Her husband, Jim Freed, told US media she died ...