Drugs You Don't Need For Disorders You Don't Have

In the United States, 79 million people live under the dependence to some sort of psychiatric drug (of which 1,080,168 are children in between zero and five years old). 

The diagnosis? Attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, dysthymia (low grade depression), anxiety disorder, social phobia, agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc.

The solution? Xanax, Zoloft, Celexa, Prozac, Amphetamine salts, Zyprexa among others.

The side effects of this drugs tend to be far worse than the illnesses themselves; however, no other country in the world has as many citizens diagnosed with mental disorders. No other country in the world consumes as many psychiatric medications. And yet the percentage of people diagnosed with this diseases hasn't dropped a bit since the brought up of this drugs. In fact, in the last years it has only increased hand to hand to the release of new mental medication, rising 43 percent from 2001 to 2010.

More than one quarter of the U.S. population reports having some type of sleeping disorder and of course, in response, the market announces uncountable new drugs as remedy. What are the consequences of this new culture of psychiatric dependence? Where does it all come from? What's the forecast for the years to come?