Peter D. Kramer: Are antidepressants overprescribed? | VIEWPOINT

One in ten Americans regularly uses antidepressant medication. Does that mean that people are using SSRIs when they don't need them? Peter Kramer and Sally Satel discuss whether or not psychotropic drugs are all too easily prescribed.

Peter Kramer is a psychiatrist and author of "Ordinarily Well": https://goo.gl/bdFf4B

Sally Satel is a psychiatrist and Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute: https://goo.gl/7RPAq0

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