Just Say No; Americans are taking too Many Anti-Psychotics Drugs
March 5th 2010 07:51 am
Reports continue to reveal that Americans increasingly are drugged out of our minds. It seems antidepressant drugs are the drugs of choice and that there is no end in sight as to amounts we are willing to take to feel no pain. A new study report that Adults in this country are increasingly taking a combination of antidepressants, anti-anxiety and anti-psychotic drugs regardless of the serious side effects.
The report published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, investigated patterns and trends patients being prescribed 2 or more anti psychotic drugs. The report demonstrated a significant increase in the number of mind altering drugs that were prescribed from 1996 to 2006. The percent of doctor visits that resulted in 2 or more prescription jumped from 42.6% to 59.8%. And the percent of visits which resulted in 3 or more prescription jumped from 16.9% to 33.2%.
This combination of drugs prescribed included but of course not limited to; antidepressants with sedative-hypnotics, antidepressants with anti-psychotics and and combo of several types of antidepressants. Stacking mind altering drugs doesn’t seem like a good idea people, just the combination of side effects alone. No wonder nobody trust anybody else we’re becoming a nation of legal druggies.
Recall seeing a commercial where the guy has a “Suck o Meter”, well this study shows that not only does quitting smoking suck apparently life with anti-psychotic drugs suck as well. We’d all be better off is Marijuana was legalized.
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