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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013 THE PSYCHIATRIC DRUG CRISIS POSTED BY?GARY GREENBERG It’s been just over twenty-five years since Prozac came to market, and more than twenty per cent of Americans now regularly take mind-altering drugs prescribed by their doctors. Almost as familiar as brands like Zoloft and Lexapro is the worry about what it means that the daily routine in many households, for parents and children alike, includes a dose of medications that are poorly understood and whose long-term effects on the body are unknown. Despite our ambivalence,?sales of psychiatric drugs?amounted to more than sev