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Author Charles Barber says that Americans obsessed with the quick fix are abusing antidepressant drugs more than ever - and he has the numbers to back his claim up. Psychotropic drugs from Ritalin to Prozac are now the number one category of dispensed medicine in the country, with the U.S. accounting for two-thirds of the global antidepressant market. We’ll explore how we got here, and the consequences of a nation on antidepressants.

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• Charles Barber, Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and author of “Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation”