(CNN)About one in six American adults took a psychiatric drug -- most often antidepressants, sedatives or antipsychotics -- at least once during 2013, according to a new research letter published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
Because the results came from self-reported data, the actual numbers may be higher, say co-authors Thomas J. Moore, a senior scientist, drug safety and policy, at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices and lecturer at Milken Institute School of Public Health of The George Washington University, and Dr. Donald R. Mattison, chief medical officer at Risk Sciences International in Ottawa.
Importantly, the study found that older adults, between the ages of 60 and 85, are now the highest users of psychiatric medicines: More than a quarter of people between the ages of 60 and 85 reported use, compared with just 9% of those between the ages of 18 and 39 and nearly 18% of adults between the ages of 40 and 59.
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and probably 1 out of every 2 children.
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Like I said big Pharma cures nothing. Pot would eliminate the need for 99.9% of these drugs. However we cannot be allowed to grow our own since you Cant tax what should be free.
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were not most, if not all, of the mass shooters on some kind of these drugs?
ReplyDeleteThe half brain dead stoners have spoken! Keep smoking. You are doing me a favor by reducing your life expectancy.
ReplyDelete@11:34 Why? You planning on dating all the widows?
ReplyDelete@1:06 PM Everybody knows stoners don't have wives. Stoners spend what little money they have on weed. Decent women don't want anything to do with stoners.
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