Last year Americans collectively consumed more than one billion pills for mental-health related symptoms: anxiety, depression, stress, insomnia, fatigue, difficulty concentrating... The problem is that almost half of this pill consumption is sub rosa--secretly and confidentially--to avoid detection by family members, employers, and insurance companies. Even doctors sometimes collaborate in this ruse. The fact is that in America today most people prescribed psychiatric medications are taking them in ways other than they were intended to be taken, for so-called "off-label" conditions. Associated with this are a range of unsanctioned practices, including pill splitting...hence: jagged little pills. Given that "off-label" prescribing... Continue reading

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