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The antidepressant age

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Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are

  • Katherine Sharpe
Harper Perennial, 2012 336 pp., Paperback, $14.99 0062059734 | ISBN: 0-062-05973-4

In Coming of Age on Zoloft, Katherine Sharpe uses her early autobiography as a scaffold on which to place her reflections on depression and the widespread prescription of antidepressant drugs to American adolescents and college students. She intersperses her own experiences with excerpts from interviews that she has conducted with young adults who have had depression and also with brief but accurate descriptions of findings from epidemiological and clinical research.

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S.E.H. is a member of the Novartis Science Board and has served on scientific advisory boards for AstraZeneca Neuroscience Innovative Medicines Unit and Fidelity Biosciences.

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