Prozac

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Awash in antidepressants, America is manipulated by Big Pharma and numbed out to basic, and inevitable, human pain -- or so argue critics of our serotonin nation.
By Jerome Weeks Jan 29, 2008

  • Van Gogh on Prozac

    Treating depression doesn't quell our humanity and creativity but restores them, argues "Listening to Prozac" author Peter Kramer. So, please, let's stop making a virtue out of despair.
    By Laura Miller May 23, 2005

  • Daily dose

    I drink, smoke dope, pop Vicodin and take Prozac. Why hasn't my body given out yet?
    By Cynthia Kuhn and Wilkie Wilson November 1, 2000

  • Chemical ravings

    Worried that ecstasy may fry the serotonin cells in their brains, some ravers are taking Prozac.
    By Eric Sabo September 1, 2000

  • Prozac for PMS

    If the drug can do for monthly mood swings what it is said to do for depression, bring it on, baby!
    By Stephen Bloom July 18, 2000

  • We think, therefore we diagnose

    America is in the grips of sudden syndrome proliferation syndrome.
    By Carina Chocano May 30, 2001

  • Happiness is back

    By Andreas Killen
    By August 4, 2000

  • Prozac for PMS

    By Stephen Bloom
    By July 20, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Is Prozac a crutch? Plus: Tips for saving your sex life on antidepressants; Did homophobia drive apart the brothers Nabokov?
    May 19, 2000

  • Prozac indignation

    How a little-known Harvard clinician needled sleeping giant Eli Lilly
    By Craig Offman May 17, 2000

  • Sex-free bliss?

    Depressed people often have to choose between drug-induced happiness and sexual fulfillment.
    By Stephen G. Bloom May 17, 2000

  • At peace with Prozac

    The drug was my salvation. Does that make me a spiritual sloth?
    By Kelly Luker May 17, 2000

  • The shape of dreams

    Freud called them the royal road to the unconscious. A hundred years later, the debate over what they mean goes on.
    By Andreas Killen May 11, 2000

  • P is for Prozac

    How a government corrupted by special interests is spawning a generation of medicated preschoolers.
    By Arianna Huffington March 21, 2000

  • Psych meds for kids: Too much, too soon?

    Some psychiatric drugs do help children, but school and family are crucial, too.
    By Lawrence H. Diller, M.D. March 10, 2000

  • Kids on drugs

    A behavioral pediatrician questions the wisdom of medicating our children.
    By Lawrence H. Diller, M.D. March 9, 2000

  • I can't help it!

    We all do obsessive things. People with Tourette's syndrome just do it more.
    By David Bowman January 21, 2000

  • The evil that dogs doo

    The more dogs I meet, the more dogs I hate.
    By Steve Burgess November 13, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Must Camille turn her blade on her own community? Plus: Fighting the "Babywise" bible; was Pope Pius XII a Nazi pawn?
    Letters to the Editor November 3, 1999

  • Artist's little helper

    Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes.
    By Susan Emerling October 29, 1999

  • The mysterious mind

    One author doubts that we will ever explain and control the brain.
    By Arthur Allen October 27, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Paglia and others sound off on Horowitz; Kant can't cure clinical depression; since when is Yale egalitarian?
    Letters to the Editor August 27, 1999

  • My antidepressant made me do it!

    The Hartman estate says Zoloft was to blame for a murder-suicide.
    By Rob Waters July 19, 1999

  • The power of positive shrinking

    Is the new optimistic movement in psychology a theoretical breakthrough or a professional survival tactic?
    By Carol LLoyd October 21, 1998

  • My syndrome, myself

    A recent crop of memoirs chronicles our obsession with illness, from Tourette's syndrome to anorexia to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
    By Laura Miller June 24, 1998
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