More than one in 10 Americans use antidepressants | Reuters

More than one in 10 Americans use antidepressants | Reuters: (Reuters) -"More than one in 10 Americans over the age of 12 takes an antidepressant, a class of drugs that has become wildly popular in the past several decades, U.S. government researchers said Wednesday."

Considering the "50 percent of wage earners had net compensation less than or equal to the median wage, which is estimated to be $26,363.55 for 2010." , that unemployment is rising, that college graduates can't find jobs, and that doctors are pushing the drugs. We have now a doped up country also see: Mass psychosis in the US - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

"Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux."