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America’s Zoloft Problem: A Generation Grows Up With Antidepressants

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A new book takes stock of a generation that’s grown up with antidepressants. But Cara Spitalewitz asks: do the drugs work?

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In her bestselling 1997 memoir Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel was already expressing concern about the long-term effects of her new antidepressant: “I can’t help feeling that anything that works so effectively, so transformative, has got to be hurting me at another end, maybe sometime further down the road.

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